Right, so again, so what I'm saying though is that the hip itself does not have internal rotation available. That's why you're seeing the initial strategy in the first place.

Okay. Excellent. I want you to take that two euro coin. There's a cleft note. Don't really do this. I'm just speaking figuratively. So you take your two euro coin and I need you to hide it somewhere so nobody can take it from you. The one place, Paul's loving this, the one place where you can hide it that nobody's gonna look, okay, is back there, right? You can hold it between your cheeks, so to speak, you understand? Hold it between your cheeks. That's what happens when people rock the whole pelvis back. They have to squeeze the posterior lower together to get into that position and hook line. That's the mistake. And squeezing the ball between your knees under that circumstance doesn't solve the problem. It can actually magnify the problem.

So again, the thing you don't want to do is actually force people into these positions. And again, if he's laying on his side and his knees don't even approximate, then you're going to have to make a modification there.

So for, okay, yes, but, okay. To initiate it, to initiate it.

Okay, awesome. When was the last time you contributed two or three hours to improving the mobility of your rib cage? Yeah. Well, okay. Do you see my point? It's like people are willing to invest ridiculous amounts of time in something like a marathon runner. They'll go out and they'll run 20 miles, which you could just take a car faster, but as part of their training, they will run 20 miles in a row without a second thought because that's the contributor to performance without understanding that they need to invest a certain amount of time to offset the negative consequences of running 20 miles, and that might be a lot more time than they think. So because of the fast-changing constraints that we deal with, some people think they only need to invest five or six minutes to recapture something, then go okay I'm good. When the reality is, they've got these underlying structural adaptations that are going to prevent them from hanging onto those changes longer than they want. What are they willing to invest in them? And I have this conversation a lot because people say they do well sometimes and don't other times, and I ask what they're willing to invest. They say how fast can they feel better or get back to the gym. I ask what they're willing to invest. Would they take that three hours of training and change the entire focus to be the most horrible, miserable, boring type of activity to recapture mobility? Imagine doing lazy rolling for three hours. It's ridiculous to think that. I'm not saying do it, but it's ridiculous to imagine. Picking up heavy things feels great, it's ego-satisfying, awesome, makes you look great, makes you superhuman strong, so you're willing to do that. Now roll around on the ground for three hours to capture 10 degrees of hip flexion, are you willing to do that? I like where your head is in regards to how you're looking at this thing, but you have to look at it from the much broader perspective of what is changeable and what's the investment.

And so, essentially you have to follow the same helical orientation that you did on the left side, but you can no longer turn back to the left because it's already compressed. There's no space to go into. So as you compress the right side forward, it's going to create a left shift because the compression is going to go from your left side towards your right side. So now you're going to move forward onto the right metatarsal heads.

So you'd put the belt on the alien.

Sorry to do that to you. So wait for the call.

OK. If I need to push a hip down, OK, so right foot forward, left foot back. Right to left chop. Is that what you're saying?

And so those foot contacts go along with the turn into the left side. Still useful, still useful, not the same foot contact.

OK.

Yeah.

So first course of action. That's what's pushing them forward, yeah. So think of that, think of sequence of events. Okay. They move on the oblique. They lose ER. That's how you know, right? That's how you know. They would lose their on the right side. And then when they start to lose the IR, that means that the center of gravity is now moving forward, right? Because if the center of gravity is moving forward, that means they have to get compressed on the front side and compression on the front side is where you lose the IR. Okay.

Like Sunday when we were talking about when we had that one athlete that was compressed on the right side, but we started to bring her to the left rather than bring her back on the right and then to the left.

So my assumption is that without strength in the pelvic floor, you're just going to drop to that side. And that's what's happening there.

Both feet.

No. Right before that.

Really simple. Love it. Okay. If I can't turn. Okay. These are hip joints. This is what this means. Hip joints, right? Okay. Okay. If I can't turn, how do I put force down? Cause normally what I would do is I would just take my hips and I would go like that. I turn them inward. Boom. Force goes down, but I can't do that anymore.

Exactly right. So now you know, with this frame of reference, if you can see these things in real time or capture them on video, you know what strategy they're using and what they're lacking at that point in time in the movement. And so now you say, okay, do we need a special exercise to address this? Is this just a technical glitch? Do I have a compressive strategy that's creating the interference? It's literally about understanding the limitations presented in the table test, but you don't have to do the table test. You just have to understand what strategies limit the motion and then what motions you need at that point in time in the specific context.

Yeah. Cross-sectional area, right? So cross-sectional area is directly related to how much force a muscle can produce. The question is, first, can she acquire the positions to do it? That's a big step, because you can work on that without having to create a bunch of overload. But at some point in time, you may have to superimpose some true increase in cross-sectional area here. That's one of the problems with post-surgicals is that that's an element of the solution because people lose muscle mass over time. Thankfully, it's the easiest thing to do. Increasing muscle mass is easy from a strategy standpoint. Effort, obviously difficult, right? You have to work hard at it, but as far as the solution goes, it's a very simple part of the process, right? Restoring the mechanics, restoring the mechanics, that means you have to understand where they are, what your intention is, and then being able to determine when you're arriving at the appropriate solution. And like I said, it sounds like you're really on point there. You're doing the right stuff. You don't have to do things on both sides of the body. Right? So when you're talking about your carries and stuff, it's like, you don't have to balance left carries with right carries because that's not the problem. The problem is that you have an asymmetrical representation. Guess what? You need an asymmetrical loading strategy.

Or a chop. Say what? A chop, maybe.

It looks like this until it looks like that. So ERIR happening at the same time. So here's the step. Ready? So here's the step. My foot lands, everything starts to get super imposed. And then I hit max P and then they don't move. And then they go back the other way. It's like a collision of ERs and IRs that slam together because at the point of max P, I need the least amount of movement possible. So I have to squeeze. So everything does this. It interdigitates, it squeezes, and then it releases and expands in the other direction. OK. OK. So not quite what I was saying. I understand your representation. The thing you have to understand is that there's certain areas that need to have a much stronger representation of yielding because that's the greater area where I can store and release energy. So where would we look? Well, we start to look at like an Achilles tendon or we start to look at like a Patellar tendon. It's like those are designed for energy storage and release to a greater degree than some of the broader, flatter, shorter, connective tissues. It's not that they don't yield and distribute the force, but think about where they start to distribute the force. The shorter ones, the flatter ones are the ones that are translating this force into stiffer structures. Patellar tendon. Big rubber band Achilles tendon big rubber band the glute max attachment to the ilium tendons really small really broad, why would it do that because it's got to distribute the force into the pelvis. Okay. Which is also expanding and compressing, right? How do you, how do I get this, this big hunk of bone to bend and twist? Well, if I put a little teeny tendon on it, I'll get one little spot that'll, that'll constantly get pulled on ASIS. And it looks like an ASIS. If I, if I attach a bunch of stuff there that pulls on that one spot, it gets pointy, right? But if I'm trying to create this distributed wave of energy that's got to go through this, I need a very broad, small attachment to distribute that into that structure. You see how this interplay is working? It's like some of the stuff is going to lock together, hold a position so nothing moves, so that all the movement goes into the big rubber bands where I store and release more energy. But see, that's why we have problems too. That's why you get patellar tendon pain or you get an Achilles pain. because I'm not distributing the stresses the way I normally should. I'm asking them to do perhaps multiple jobs. Or I'm saying, yeah, I can't create the compression at max P anymore because the position is not allowing that to happen.

So in terms of I was thinking about it, putting someone not in half kneeling, but more in staggered stance, would that be enough? It's still a knee bend, but it's not like 90 degrees, but the knee is still bending, so we're still getting the relative.

But don't think that you're screwing people up. They're just giving you information as to how hard an activity is, which helps you make decisions in the gym.

So if I may. Okay. So, if you do an activity that restores internal rotation and it does not have an impact on external rotation in a favorable way, then there's a good chance that you created an orientation which might be useful in force production. However, it would interfere potentially with relative motion.

He walks like, I guess I've not noticed that. He walks like very like a hands in his pockets like.

Are we still zoomed in on the shoulder or?

So some forms of variations of box squats seem like would be a... I love box squats.

For your premise, like I don't disagree with your premise.

a year, well, start to learn. Yeah.