And then what direction did they go to lose the early hip flexion, straight leg raise, and internal rotation? What did they lose? What direction did they go then? Forward. So if you were going to reverse engineer this whole process, which direction would you move them first? Backward. So straight back and then back on the Oak Lake. This is because everybody's going to end up in the same place.

Good morning. Happy Friday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. Okay. Very pumped today.

Yeah, well tell Laila too that I was listening to his Osgoode Slatter story and I'm 47 years old and I've had Osgoode Slatter since I was a kid and I can still squat 500 pounds. So tell him that his mate will be just fine.

Okay. That makes more sense. So given those influences and those positions, how do you think that would play out in a powerlifting setting, in a setting where you have an option to move your feet really wide or really narrow, or in a setting where your grip can be really wide or really narrow? How do you think those two positions relative to the archetypes would have a direct influence on those things?

This one. Yes.

It moves it forward and away from the thorax, right? Okay. Would that allow us to capture posterior lower expansion? Say yes. Yeah. All right. So step one, we're golden. Okay. All right. And then am I going to try to rotate through the humerus?

Okay. So let's break this down a little bit. Let's start with archetype. So her archetype biases her towards expansion into the ground. Her configuration, so the axial shape biases her into the ground. Strike two. So when they put a heavy load on her back, and they say squat down, she's pushing to save her life, right? She is compressed and she is eye-ranging to the max. What's gonna happen to movement under those circumstances? It's gonna just stop, right? It's like literally, we took somebody that's having trouble managing gravity and we gave them more gravity. Right? OK. Probably not the solution that we're looking for. OK. So to problem solve, I don't want to say that it's simple because the concept is very, very simple. If I have someone that is having trouble managing gravity without external load, guess what? External load is not the solution. Yeah. So you're right. Every question up until this moment was for you. OK? So what did we just learn about this person? Is this gonna be somebody that we can teach to apply more force and she's gonna gain range of motion?

Right. That's why I will never take advice from you until you've invested 30 years in practice because it'll, and I'm kidding, of course.

Yeah, exactly. That's all it is. To create this manipulation of your center of mass, I need this relative motion available to do it comfortably and easily. We can still move our center of mass in a very compressed state, but understand that you'll do it with a lot less relative motion. That's important because higher force productions demand that. So now you make the decision. It's like, what am I trying to chase? Am I trying to chase my relative motions? Then I have to manipulate the center of mass in such a way that I don't give up the relative motion in the process. If I'm trying to improve somebody's force production, I have to teach them how to move their center of mass with less relative motion with higher force output.

Was that helpful?

But either way we're getting shoved forward. Oh, yeah. Okay.

And then we have to start looking deeper and deeper into structure. When you look at a collagen fiber and what is it? It's helically oriented. Okay, great. And then if you look at the larger scale, as you build yourself outward from that simple collagen fiber, you see that everything is organized in these spiral orientations. It's like, oh, wait a minute, that they're all helices. And then you say, well, where's my best representation for the helix? And you go, oh, holy cow, I got a big giant one staring me at the face. And then that's when we started looking at the archetype structures where I say, well, some people are flatter helices and some people are more vertical helices. Well, it stands to reason that your strategies would have to be different because you only have so many options that are available to you, but you have to still follow the general principle of compression and expansion. And so it's like literally, this is why we talk about fractals. That's why the fractal representations are so important. And you look at everywhere, you'll see this repeating rule concept, right? If something works, nature repeats it. So why does everybody see the Fibonacci spirals everywhere? Well, because it represents an element of efficiency and structure. So it makes sense that it would repeat itself on many different scales and in many different representations because it works. And so everything moves towards efficiency. Everything moves towards efficiency. So it's like never stand when you can sit and never sit when you can lay down and never just lay down when you can sleep. So again, we're always looking for the most efficient energy output. And so when we talk about physical structures, so the tetrahedron is our second most efficient representation. So a sphere would be this perfect representation of efficiency. It's the least surface area with the greatest volume, right? So that's why everything kind of in the universe kind of falls towards that spherical representation. Why are the planets round? Well, because that's the most efficient representation. Here's the problem. In biology, we don't have curves. We only have straight lines. Okay. So I have to create the next most efficient structure, which is a tetrahedron. So that is the least volume with the greatest surface area, right? And so now I am constructed with these tetrahedrons. Well, but if you slam enough tetrahedrons together, you get the helix. And then the helix is the collagen fiber. And then everything else, you see how it builds out into this larger and larger representations. And then all we have to do is observe and say, well, how does this behave? How does this fit into the rules of the universe in regards to compression expansion? How do I create the gradients? And then everything just kind of slowly falls into place if you just pay attention.

100%.

Yeah, okay. You see it? Yes.

She's, uh, early. She's more towards her heel.

In the right adductors, I'll get eccentrically rounded in the left adductors so I can get a strain type of sensation there. And then he mentioned limited yielding on this right side. So if I get a compressive strategy, it'll be just through this middle portion of the sacrum. It's going to get pushed forward and that's going to drive me up and over the top of this right leg. And so again, typically what I'm going to see is I'm going to see a gain of internal rotation on this right side and the loss of external rotation. But if I keep getting pushed further forward, I'm going to pick up some concept of orientation on this right side. And so again, this shows us the limitations that Gerardo is talking about. Now, he's already started on a really good activity that I like, which is an offset squat variation with a low cable where he's actually reaching forward with the left side. And what he's doing, he's actually creating the yielding action on the left side and then he's creating the overcoming action on the right side. So he's moving into a later propulsive strategy on the right side and an early propulsive strategy on the left side. So I love that. But something that we didn't talk about on the call that I want to make clear is that you may need to initiate some static positions and some rolling activities at first to create this delay on the left and the advancement on the right. And so again, left rolling activity. So we might start you statically on your left side to start to move the sacrum from this right oriented position. So if I put you on your left side and we do some of the static activities, that's going to start to bring you back to this middle ground. And then we can turn it into a roll and turn it in the other direction. So Gerardo, again, I hope you're watching. You might need to do some of this sideline stuff and rolling stuff as some of your movement prep before you start to train. Once you do that, now we've got a lot of stuff on the table, so I really like the left half kneeling static activities to start to promote this again, capturing this middle ground so we can start to produce this turn. Once you're able to produce this overcoming action on the right side and get you into a later propulsive strategy on the right side. So just like the offset squat with the left cable reach, we can put you in left half kneeling and do a left arm reach. But we're going to have to maintain that yielding action on the posterior left side. And so again, there should be a video here that's showing you what I'm talking about there.

Yes. Because you're able to do it with the really lower intensity activities, you were doing fine with it. Right? So that means to me, that means you're probably capturing the position. as you up the intensity and you try to push it into the ground harder, you're extending the duration. Because you're not capturing the proximal position. It takes you longer to capture the proximal position. We want to shorten that amount of time. So this is the drawback. This is one of the drawbacks of age-related decline. Okay, this is why there are exceptions to the rule of aging people that can keep up certain levels of performance, but the rest of us decline because we lose the ability to change shape, or we lose the ability to change shape quickly. Okay. Uh, there's awesome video of the, uh, it's, it would be probably the oldest age group that's still allowed to participate in competitive sports. The, the 90 plus age group in sprinting.

First I was just bottom of the split squat. And then what? Then what do you need?

Yeah. Yeah.

Now go into and out of a cut for me mentally. At what point are you actually acquiring that footage?

In terms of what she was using at baseline with the tightness or what I did to get rid of it.

Yes. Well, for good and bad. So what I run into a lot of times is difficulty in restoring relative motions due to the anterior orientations, right? And so I need to be more successful in addressing that first and foremost, right? And the distinctions in dealing with it versus with wides versus narrows. So the way I sort of understand things it's more of a structural bias for wides or going to have more compression above sort of that trochanter level, correct or no.

Yeah.

Yes. So you're creating the expansion posteriorly. So you look at the posterior outlet position. That's what changes. So as they're coming straight up out of a squat, they shift backwards. They're trying to get the outlet into a more IR'd position. So that is a concentrically rated outlet. That is an exhaled outlet. To do that, they literally have to shift the whole pelvis into a stronger representation of IR. That's all they're doing. And that brings the outlet into that concentrically oriented position. You see it? Yeah, so just follow the shape change. They're telling you what is difficult for them. They're telling you where you need to start them. Or like I said, if you've got a crazy high level lifter that has hundreds of kilograms on the bar, they're just, they're working right at their potential.

Then I, yes.

Fair point. In terms of conceptualizing within the model, the difference between insertional pain versus midportion within the Achilles. I'm thinking back to school and we were never really provided with a reason why one pain might show up in one location versus the other. It's just a couple of considerations from a treatment standpoint. But if I'm trying to make assumptions about this presentation before seeing this person, they're at the point where they're getting insertional pain. Would that be indicative that the bend has made it all the way down to the calcaneus as opposed to the twist just through the soft tissue?

Okay.

Yeah. Do you see the dilemma? Yeah. Oh, no, I know it. Right. And so this is why, like when you look at the most extreme representations of muscular development, this is why they don't move well because they are programmed to not move well because the type of training that they do is to actually reduce the amount of relative motion. So the muscle tissue is what becomes the relative motion, if you will. Like I said, otherwise there's no tension on it. And if there's no tension on it, you don't develop big, strong muscles. That's the conflict. Again, it's a rare occasion. It's not impossible. It's a rare occasion, though, that you would get like a super heavyweight powerlifter that moves well.

Yeah. That's easy to see.

If I let my knees come together, I can't sleep. It's really uncomfortable.