Yep. It's like, I wear this analogy out, but the twisted towel thing is just the best little representation as to what's going on, right? Two people holding the towel. One person starts to twist it until you feel it on the other hand, right? It's not there yet. So there you go. Yeah, I would totally agree with you. So, so right away, you got to start thinking it's like, all right, how far into the foot is this behavior? Yeah. You know, it's like, and if they, if they're still treating the site, if you will, right? They're not taking advantage of this understanding. It's like the site is kind of telling you how far into this thing, right? And now you've got to start thinking, it's like, okay, is this proximal, distal, or proximal? Yep. And then that's going to give you a tremendous amount of information as to what to do next. Yup. Cause there's a lot of stuff that you could that may give temporary symptomatic relief. I'm like, just get tension off of that spot. You're going to get some symptomatic relief to resolve that. It's going to require some strategy. Cause again, if you had a bottom up, it's going to be different.

Okay. As the foot comes down to the ground and you capture the medial foot context. So you go from the ER position to starting to superimpose IR. So this is where first met head and medial heel contact come into play. Got it?

But my question is actually in regards to baseball, kind of like Kelly's question. I think in my next clinicals with a lot of baseball pitchers, elbow and hand are not as easy for me to understand. Can you just go over what you're testing or looking for with the pistol test? Yes, thank you. Can you just review that for me?

OK. And so again, your goal is to make sure that you're reinforcing the mechanical element as effectively as possible through your exercise selection. OK? Yep. So if you did like a low obliques at first, you capture the IR representation at the elbow, so you actually reduce the differential, then you can retrain them in external rotation. And then you can start to work on the supination. You've got to have the downforce first. Cool?

Okay. When I lay him on his back, he just flattens out like a pancake.

Increases.

Yeah. Yeah. We're sneaky that way.

Here you go. I'm going to make it crazy simple. She's going into the cut. End of story. She's not turning it around, not coming out of the cup, right? If she's over top of the right line.

Well, I'm going to try. So get to the endpoint. If you could go past that endpoint. And you can. It's like we're inside the base of support. So it's going to hit an end, hopefully. But if you tried to go past that endpoint, what would have to happen for you to either go farther in one direction or the other.

Does that make sense to you?

Oh, wow. Yeah, it's pretty cool, actually. It doesn't work. I just never thought about it. It doesn't always work, dude. It doesn't always work. OK. Just because some people are just more and more difficult. Now, double whammy. OK. I put you in prone, traction to leg. I got you in an ER representation. Right. As the femur changes shape, the muscle orientation above the trochanter goes from concentric to eccentric orientation. That reduces the anti-rotation. I flip you back over in your back, I get ER.

Well, I don't know if it's sufficient or not, but it is a way to initiate that process.

The premise behind the cue to pull shoulders back and down is to take away movement. The goal is to create a single piece by jamming all parts into one specific shape that increases the compressive strategy, as you need that to produce force. First, recognize that you're not trying to gain motion here; we're trying to produce force and thus minimize motion. As far as where you produce this, take your pick because if you're trying to move everything into a single piece, consider the extremes. Looking at YouTube videos teaching bench press, everyone biases toward the extreme powerlifting style, trying to create the world's biggest arch to increase compression. If you look at where the scapula typically rests—between T2 and T7—covering roughly five vertebra segments—whatever the scapulae are compressed against becomes the stiffest representation. If you retract and depress, you probably won't compress the scapula lower than T8. However, consider all the musculature you can concentrically orient under that circumstance, which also becomes a single piece. As for localizing it, I don't know if it's futile to narrow it down. When you actively depress the scapula, you likely won't go much past another level. Then consider where you'd want the greatest degree of compression posteriorly—you'll close off the lower posterior by compressing it. You have musculature compressing that area, then the scapulae directly above it. Ultimately, you're trying to create a single immovable entity under these circumstances.

Well, you can do it. It's just that's what I don't want.

Okay. Because when you raise your right leg, you're pushing.

So now, knowing what you know now, I will ask you a test question. Under what circumstance would that be an effective strategy?

Okay.

So it becomes a top down IR to push out of it, to push out of it. Again, it's just a bias. It's just the bias. So if I was trying to capture early IR on the left, it'd be a right hand load with a left foot back. It was trying to capture late IR, which is straight down into the ground, it'd be a left hand load, left foot back.

Yeah. We're good? Yeah. Awesome.

There you go. There's your narrow endgame.

Yeah.

Yeah, but you're absolutely right. So again, that left hip was up and I have to push it down into the ground, which means that, so where do you push that hip into the ground? Well, you push it down in middle, don't I? It means that I need, so if I put the left foot out in front and I was doing the chop, that's not middle. That's an early representation, isn't it? Say it one more time. If I, if I were to flip flop my feet, if I put the left foot forward under the circumstance that you're describing, and I did the top, that's going to be an earlier representation. So that's not the highest force producing position. If I want to capture the higher force producing position with the turn, then I dropped the foot back. You see it.

Same principle. Like you just again you're bringing the ground up to make it easier. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have no coffee in hand and it is perfect. Woo. Hey, very busy Friday today. So we're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Matt from yesterday's Coffee and Coaches Conference call. So Matt's question revolved around dorsal rostral expansion, especially when you have an asymmetrical representation, which often represents a little bit of a turn. And so basically this is a discussing a little trick that we can use in regards to some of the activities that we're choosing. We have to understand that we've got forces that are going from proximal to distal, distal to proximal, which means that we can use foot positions, hand orientations, and different contacts to drive shape change proximally. And this is what we're talking about, using a deadlift. So I use an example of a power lifter that we actually demonstrated this with a power lifting seminar, man, it must be a couple years ago now, where we actually just flip-flopped her deadlift grip and restored a lot of neck range of motion. And so the neck thing's actually very common. And so we brought Dale in. Dale's power lifter was on the call. Dale was very familiar with the representation that we were talking about as well. So it was just a fun little segment of a call, but probably very useful for a lot of people in regards to not having to chase a bunch of unusual, rehab-ish kind of exercises, just a couple of things that you can do to influence these things in the gym. So thank you, Matt, for leading us in this direction. If you would like to participate in a 15-minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Please put '15-minute consultation' in the subject line, so I don't delete it. Include your question in the email, if you would. We will arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding Friday podcast. We'll be up on Sunday, and I'll see you next week.

Based on the degree of limitation in the description, I don't think you're going to move this guy back towards an early representation. I think what you're going to end up doing is just keeping them in the middle and buying him as much plus or minus on that.

So seen from above, the Elysees angle just becomes a circle. And it's just like, there's a very symmetrical relationship in between both feet within that. Like they will tend to have, well, actually, they will necessarily have a counteracting effect within that. But it was not intuitive to me like, okay, at some point, you're too much in front and in the back of you that you're going to start to go into a square. Like you will need to narrow it again.

Right.

Yes.

Yeah, I mean, so is the AFO alone enough to do it? I just know I'm not there. Of course.

I'm kind of looking at her assessment tomorrow. I haven't looked at her yet. But that's what our assessment is.

I saw it. Say it, Monica. Say it. You have to unmute so you can speak. What are you going to use? What tool? The bar. There you go. So the bar is going to keep his hand spacing apart. So now you're actually training him in the spaces that he has available. Okay. So how do you get the ball from one place to another?