Absolutely not. So what's the first strategy that we wanna use then? Do we wanna add load or do we wanna take load away?

My point is, this is why the experiential element is so powerful for what we do for a living, because you don't have a broad enough scope or perspective to make the best possible decisions. There will be days where you knock it out of the park, and there will be days where you're eating rhinoceros poop because it was just such a bad day. After 30 years, that still happens. You have to evolve. You have to accumulate this perspective. School cannot teach it to you; experience will teach it to you. You're going to get knocked on your ass a number of times, and that's where you're going to learn the most unless you pay attention to where you're successful as well. You ask the same questions when you're successful: what else could I have done? What could I have done that was even better? People say, 'Oh, you got a favorable outcome.' Well, is it the best possible outcome or just better than what they started with? When people get excited, they say, 'Oh, this guy came in with zero degrees of hip internal rotation and we got 10.' OK, are you happy with 10? Maybe, like if this guy's a high-level sprinter, 10 degrees of internal rotation is pretty impressive. But if it's a regular person off the street who needs 40, are you really going to be satisfied with that? Maybe you just need a better perspective, but that might take some time to gather. That's another tool in the toolbox to access a different aspect of the system. This is how you build the clinician. This is why you're on clinicals.

And there you go. As I move this forward, more and more of that gluteus meat changes its orientation, more and more of performance changes its orientation, more and more of glute max changes its orientation. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have no coffee in hand. And it is perfect. All right. Man, busy, busy Friday. Facebook groups have been killing. I was just on the iFastU Facebook group. Great questions coming in from everybody that's involved there. So if you're not part of iFastU, you probably want to get on there and start digging in with those fine folks. The Intensive, we got a big call this weekend with all the attendees of Intensives 1 through 11 that are still doing great work. So excited about that. Q&As have been going really, really well, which reminds me I have one spot available for Q&A on this Saturday morning Eastern Standard Time. So if you would like that spot, please contact me through askbillhartman at gmail.com. Today's Q&A is with Luigi and Luigi had questions about split squatting. So we've talked about offset loads as far as emphasizing internal/external rotation elements of the split squat. Now we're going to do it with band tension. So this is a really good discussion for you folks that would want to use this technique and as to why you may want to choose to use it. We also covered some early and late propulsive representations in the foot, so if you still have questions about that, this will be a great call for you guys. So I hope everybody has a terrific Friday, a fabulous weekend. Podcast will be up on Sunday, and so I will see you guys next week.

Excellent. Great questions, Ben.

I can't walk backwards. I tried walking backwards.

Yeah, because I was like, how would mindset, did you find yourself in when you started to recognize that it could be better? And then when you started to find what was better, those things were actually beautifully coherent with these governing models. And I was just very curious how conscious of that because when you look at some of these papers that were put out in like 26, you know, where they were really starting to figure out where like wave particle duality was or how it was working. And they're explaining. One guy in particular, I like to read his stuff. He's not as popular, Walter Russell. He's got beautiful explanations of how there's basically one thing in the universe. That one thing fluctuates between these two polarized extremes of magnetism, which is basically a centrifugal concentrating force. You've got electricity, which is this centripetal expanding force. And I'm like, that's Bill's model. I'm like, this is what Bill's talking about. Bill's model is describing what these physicists—That's the model that we have to follow.

Great questions. Great call. I'll make you famous. So we'll see you probably next week on the Q and A's. Okay.

OK, yes. Thank you. You see the difference? I do. Thank you.

It's forward.

But as a human, you still don't know what you don't know. What are your safety mechanisms to ensure that your inadvertent biases don't prevent your model from evolving?

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. There's an 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.

I needed, I need that same shape that I was going after with that activity. So like probably like some sort of like, like if I'm wanted with your question, like. Accelerations for a day, like getting into like mock drills.

Okay, so again, it's staggered. If you need a further assist, like if you need a little bit more of an external rotation representation on the right side because that's what's going to happen on the right side. You can elevate that right foot relative to the left foot, keep the stagger, elevate the foot makes it a little bit easier for them to capture the heel contact on the left side.

Can you stand up for a second? I can't. Okay, so. Put the—you got a corner there. That's perfect. So take the medial border of your foot, put it on the floor, put the lateral border of your foot on the wall. So it's like it's on a ramp. Okay. Yeah. I want you to pay attention. Okay. And you're going to move your hip. So you're going to bend your knee and you're going to move into that position. Okay. Got it?

So I am squaring it to my perception of what straight ahead would be for her.

Later for a narrow.

Or short.

I would say like really close to there, is that fair? It's like give them a little bit of a mechanical advantage to start, right?

Okay.

So yes. Yep.

Yeah.

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. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have neuro coffee in hand and It is perfect as you do. All right. For those of you on the two week sprint this Friday and this weekend is your rest and recovery weekend. Make sure you are on track and making progress on all of your intended activities. Okay, digging into this Q&A. This is with Jordan. Jordan's on the good humans list. He's a PT student wrapping up his physical therapy education. He's done this last semester. Congratulations, Jordan. Finish strong. But he had a question in regards to hand and wrist orientation. I think Jordan's going to be working with some baseball players, and especially with throwers, hand and wrist position tends to be a big deal. Elbows tend to be a big deal. One of the things you want to start to recognize about issues with the elbow is we need to understand where we are approximately. We need to understand where we are distally. So if you prefer an old school regional interdependence structural reductionist type of model, this would become useful for you to have this information in regards to the wrist and hand orientation and proximal orientation to determine your elbow strategies. So this will hopefully be a good Q&A for you and a good question for you to be able to answer in your own way. But this is why we talk about the pistol test in this Q&A because it's going to help us determine what's going on distally at the wrist so we can understand what's going on proximally at the elbow. Thank you Jordan for asking your question and welcome back to the Coffee and Coaches Conference call. Podcasts will be up on Friday. Don't forget to go to the YouTube page and subscribe there as well. Get on the mentorship list. I'm sending out some more email newsletters and such to that mentorship list. So make sure you pay attention to that as well. Have an outstanding Friday. A great weekend. I'll see you next week.

Yeah.

Yeah, so you've got to move him into hip IR, pelvis orientation has to change into IR, and you don't have any—you don't have enough compression to create the AP expansion that's his whole problem to begin with.

Okay. And what does that do to the downward pressure that would be associated with the pressure on the outlet?

So, right. So you can still get away with it.

Gotcha. So that would be a next step, like the initial question about which IRs to go after that's still the first.

OK. One way to find out.

Now, Jake's my head nodder. Thanks, Jake.

Oh, wow.