Yeah.

It's an indication of how far forward the center of gravity is, and that determines how much harder they have to push back on themselves because nobody wants to tip over their toes and fall on their face.

For me, I thought her pelvis with her left side was pushed forward. Then she was so forward that she had the constraint and started shifting to the right.

No. Yes.

Yeah.

Does he have that space?

So the greater the degree of compression, the more orientation I need to create under all circumstances. So if I need external rotation, I orient my hips outward. That's where external rotation would be. If I need internal rotation, I tip things forward and that pushes me down. See it?

Okay. So I do this a long time ago. Okay. This is actually entropy. Okay.

All day, every day. She doesn't need to carry anything in her left hand. At least not yet.

Okay, so it's not always an issue of space, but sometimes that person just can't produce that much force yet and you have to regress them before you do the certain activity with them.

Right.

I see.

So first I just want to get back to, you just said that an eccentrically oriented muscle doesn't have tension. Could you elaborate on that?

So, and that's, and that's why, you know, when you say clean up a squat pattern, it's like that's, that's sort of like this cloudy kind of a representation because you probably understand exactly what you meant to say. Right? Because you knew what your intention was. And then I have to sit way over here on the other side of the, or actually the other hemisphere. And I have to go, okay, what did Matt mean by that? And then figure that out. And so that's why we have to be a little bit more clear as to what our intentions are at the beginning of this, right?

Yeah.

Is it for a range of motion measurement? What other range of motion measurement?

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Yeah, if you're trying to hang on to concentric orientation.

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 protracting 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 think about this for a second put them in sideline starting.

Sometimes you can, sometimes you can if they can't capture it, but a lot of times I try to get people to do it without the resistance so they can actually actively capture that. So yes, so when your foot's on the ground, tibialis anterior is a knee flexor. So I'm gonna pull that knee forward with tibialis anterior with that foot fixed to the ground. So I end up creating an end range middle propulsive foot, tibia, knee, hip. I drive IR all the way down. All I have to do is make sure that I capture the concentric orientations. And then that takes care of the twisting.

That's really helpful. And I wanted to ask you a question about in most of the boxing trainings, they ask the trainees to stay on the balls of their feet, so on the ball of the foot. What would be the advantages and disadvantages in that, in speed and force production and any views that you have on it.

There you go. That's exactly right. So when you see somebody squat and you see the expansion in the lumbar area, you think, 'Uh-oh, this is not going to be somebody that has a lot of typical early propulsive capabilities.' So their early propulsion has moved up into the lumbar spine—that's their delay strategy.

Okay. So if I, so I do the, the lowering phase in it, in a heavy squat with a weight releaser, right? And I release the weight at the bottom. I immediately changed the loading on the connected tissues and I get this really cool spring back from the connected tissues from that type of a load and release. So that's variability there within one single repetition.

They would look like they have a varus knee.

Generally speaking. Right. Because we're all dealing with the same forces. So we're all going to try to end up in the same place. It's just like, how did you get there? So we have different starting conditions. So if we look at my wide ISA archetype, if we look at my narrow ISA archetype, those are just different starting conditions. Forces being the same, they're just going to behave a little bit differently. But ultimately, because it's the same force, they're going to manage it very similarly as they start to lose capabilities. So they all start with different strategies. But they're going to end with the same one because everything gets narrower and narrower and narrower as far as like what's available to you. So if I start with this big of a space to move in, right? And then I start to battle whatever it is, internally and externally from a force standpoint, slowly squeeze everything in. Now my movement capabilities are here. Right. And that's going to happen to both archetypes, but because the starting conditions are different, things drop off at a little bit different sequence, but ultimately at end game, they're going to measure very similarly.

It depends if we consider fall ball as part of season or not. How valuable is that relative to [the official season?

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Right. So regardless of wide or narrow, you're going to end up just pancaking.

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Okay. Good. Okay. Do I want to pull the scapula towards the spine? No. Why would I want to avoid that?