Okay, so again, you've heard me talk about the setup of the exercise and then the execution of the exercise, correct?

Yeah.

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.

Yeah.

Yeah. So does that push the left hip down?

Do you ever take something that can't do a pushup and you, and you go to the rack and you put the bar in the rack and you haven't do pushups on the bar?

OK. One more thing I left out was I think one of the reasons why I gave him a sled drag is because I tested his dorsiflexion on his right side was limited. He had a better one on the left. So then I thought about, OK, well, the sled drag will promote all these things. But yeah, OK, I'm going to work on that backwards first, and then sideways away.

Yeah.

That's what's pushing them forward, yeah. So think of that, think of the sequence of events. Okay. They move on the oblique. They lose ER. That's how you know. They lose ER 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.

So I was wondering what are some markers or how do I know when to bring somebody back on the right and then go to the left rather than just go from right to left? Because the markers I thought spoke to bring her back first, but anyway.

So I was wondering if you had any good strategies for this because a lot of times these people are pretty challenging.

Okay.

Stop. Stop. Are your hands together?

So I take a pelvis and I take my spine, which technically speaking, it moves relative to the pelvis. But we want normal relative motions within the pelvis. So I take my whole pelvis and I tip it forward. So both sides of my spine are turning inward at the same time. So in the textbooks, they call that extension. But it's really just internal rotation on both sides at the same time.

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Does she pass the eyeball test? That matters.

Okay.

Yeah, it gives me a lot to think about.

On the foot and on the hip.

Do you think that's funny? That was good. Yeah, we don't want them to relax. That's not a cue that I would use necessarily under duress. The fluidity that you're looking for, right? Again, it may just be the fact that they're not sure what to do yet. They're learning how to perform the activity in question. And so then that just might be a cue from you as to, hey, feel your foot this way. Hey, make sure that your knee is guiding in this direction and so on and so forth. And then maybe loading it in such a way to produce the output. You have to give people credit for learning because like I said, when you first learn anything, especially something that's complex, that's what's quite pretty complex for most people. I mean, it really is. You're taking a base of support and changing its shape. And they are unfamiliar with how to control that. You will always see a reduction in relative motions under those circumstances when they are first exposed to it because they got to figure out how to do it. They know what it looks like. They know what shape they're supposed to be in. They just don't know how to get there and control it at the same time. So they always over recruit muscle to stop motion from occurring. That's going to be the bias. And then as they get used to it, but again, it's great for you from, there's two ratings that you always use as coach. How hard do they think it is? And then what does it look like to you? And so you're always grading, rating of technique. Their technique is going to point you in a direction as to how to manipulate that activity to arrive at the outcome that you desired. So you'd put something in a regular old split squat. And it's really, really challenging. You hear the breath hold you. you know, the guttural sound as they're moving through it. And it's just like a body weight split squat. And it's like, okay, let's elevate your front foot. Okay, so now I just took some load away from them. I moved them back towards an earlier representation and now that doesn't happen. See, I just reduced the magnitude of the load on the activity to make it a little bit easier for them to manage. Or maybe I put them You know, I adjust their stance a little bit or maybe I put an offset load on them. Right. Again, it's like whatever, whatever influence you're trying to promote. Right. Cool. But I think you understand.

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.

Get more IR or force.

Shoulder flexion measure.

Yeah. Cause that's a, again, it's a force producing position they're going to use. And, and again, it allows them to train the time related aspect of the power output. Um, Larry, I, I hate to be, you need to go. Okay.

Yeah, for sure.

Right now, yeah. And so one of the, as long as they can tolerate the positions, one of the more passive positions could just be kind of getting them in prone and retracting and breathing there for a few minutes and then try to get them assisted rolling helping them with whatever they need so they can be successful eventually rolling on their own as much as they can and then so think think about this think about this for a second put them inside line okay starting.

But if I fix the foot to the floor and I don't let the foot come up off the floor, what would the tibial do if I contracted tibialis anterior? It would perform knee flexion, causing anterior tibial translation. So guess what? Tibialis anterior is not a dorsiflexor. It's a knee flexor, isn't it?

Yes.

Where? Let's be really strong.

You can definitely look at that perspective where you can look at it from one perspective and change the variability. So variability of load, okay. If I used a weight releaser, you know what a weight releaser is?