Awesome. Okay. Where's the water? In the capsule. Inside or outside the capsule?

Right?

What are the ones that are not on? What are they doing as I'm going down?

That was it.

So he doesn't have a middle, right? And you tried to force him there and he said, uh-uh. So he's standing on the edge of the cliff. You're pushing him from behind. His heels are coming off the ground and he's fighting you every step of the way. There is no way that you're gonna get his heels to drop until you stop pushing him forward. But I think where you're gonna have to go is up there. Think of all the strategies that he's showing you, just walking in the door. Got my hands on my pockets, I'm staring at the ground. Everybody says, oh, he's so quiet and introverted. You know why? Because if he looks up, he's uncomfortable because he can't control space. He has to stay focused. So he has to close the world in, look down, put his hands in his pockets, grit his teeth and make sure that he's getting enough down force so he doesn't fall.

Okay. If you're capturing those, then you're on track, you're just going to have to make sure like you're going to have to go there most likely and do something local then, right? Because your global strategy is effective from your description. But you might have to do something local to make that change. Because again, he is going to protect himself, his brain, and he's not doing it intentionally.

Right.

Roger. Thank you.

Okay, so what if you took a towel, wrapped it around behind their pelvis? So it goes behind their pelvis and they take their hands and put them on your shoulders. They push you away while you pull the towel at the same time. This is a box squat. You have to teach them how to box squat.

Thank you very much.

Yeah. Okay. So is the solution then to go get some ER space first? And then how do you, does that just create a positional change of the lumbar spine and you don't have to worry about the posture, so to speak?

With your response to Andrew's question, but way back you made a post about older fall risk or geriatric and doing a lot of expansive type of exercises. So like kind of like marching and then sit to stand and rolling and that sort of stuff. And my thought process when I associate fall risk people, I associate them with like a lot of comorbidities, but like osteodegeneration or osteoporosis and that sort of stuff. My question is I think like when I think of changes that I'm trying to get physiologically for like osteodegenerative changes, I think more like compressive stuff like under load. If that's my goal specifically like if they have like osteoporosis or something is that, but they're also at fall risk. Is there one that you might prioritize over the other? Do they go hand in hand or can they?

So that would be that the airplane wing sort of situation you're talking about where like got the high pressure underneath. That's the concentric overcoming in that situation. Yes. All right, perfect. Let's clean a bunch of little stuff up for me.

Exactly. Exactly.

It's more superficial muscle. It's more compression. It's more squeezing, and that means you're going to lose relative motions under most circumstances.

Okay, so let's just look at an extreme representation of that. So, right away, she's in a little bit of pickle based on the diaphragm shape that does not allow a lot of, we're talking about internally now. Okay. So the compensatory strategy of the diaphragm does not create a posterior lower expansion in the lung because of the diaphragm shape. So she's going to be anteriorly expanded. It's going to shove her forward. She shoves herself back. Okay. So she, she, she chest backwards and then she falls backwards and then she pushes herself forwards and then she pushes backwards and she pushes herself forwards, right? So she just goes boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And every one of these strategies is an exhalation compressive strategy. But, but the advantage of that is that she creates this orientation so that she's turning her glenoid laterally. Right? So that creates an ER space. Okay. It's not going to allow a whole lot of relative motion to occur. So chances are she's going to get for every element of ER that she gains, she gives up some IR. Right? And so where she's probably doing this back band is she's got this orientation, like crazy orientation into ER, right? And then that gives her just enough so she creates IR through the extremity so she can balance on her hands. Right? But I think you're correct that her ability to do that may very well have led to the fact that she ended up with this so-called shoulder impingement because it requires a tremendous amount of posterior compression to achieve that position. So think about it. It's like, if she's in a back bend with her hands on the ground and her feet on the ground. So she's in this inverted U-shaped, right? Okay. If she was a tube, which she is, she was a tube and I bend the tube and the underside of the tube is fully compressed here and then there's expansion on the other side, right? You see it? And so all of her ER measures in a relative sense should be limited. Now she's creating an orientation, but there's Misha thinking again because she's creating an orientation to capture the ER position. She's literally pinning her scapulae together and pushing it forward. Well, if I push it forward, it makes this look like it's not really expanded. She's pushing it forward to create ACAs. So she created a shape in a very compressed state, but that's how much compression she has relative to the anterior. So chances are you got somebody that's gonna have like a low pressure abdominal strategy, because she's gotta let it go somewhere to make the U shape, right? She's probably not doing it through her sternum. She's squeezing in her sternum, so she's gonna push stuff towards her gut. So her abdomen is gonna probably be where she's gonna give way the most.

Okay. That makes a ton of sense. Wow.

It doesn't seem clear to me. That's where my thought process is limited.

Just stumbling.

Is that just based on the dead guy anatomy? Is that like pretty much the piriformis and everything? No, no.

Oh, buddy. If you could see. Yeah, I can't see. So you're lucky. Is that major questions? Yeah, dude. I just write down questions on notes and save them for you or Pat. My question relates to progression and progressing people through things. In the fitness world, I often find myself progressing people through sets and training volumes, but I also recognize that you can progress people through exercises and progressions of exercises. I was wondering if you have any suggestions—not 'volume landmarks' because that's very bodybuilding-oriented—but how much volume does somebody have to accrue at Exercise One with more reference before moving to Exercise Two, which is a progression with less reference and more potential for loading?

All right, dude. Great to talk to you. Thank you so much for letting me post this kind of stuff. And I appreciate it. Have a great day.

Yes, sir. That would be my opinion.

Got it. That makes sense. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah, it's you know he looked like an iPhone cable at first and then after helping him out a little bit, it was hang on, hang on, let me write that one down.

Uh, what, uh, which side are we talking about, boss? I can't hear you.

Early requires a delay strategy. If I'm advancing that side forward, it would be very difficult to create a delay.

Absolutely. Talk about the best check and balance system in the whole world. Hang your ass out there and have people tell you that you're full of shit. So it's part of it. You think I do this for my own good? No, it is the best filtering system: offer things up, have other people test it for you, then come back and say, but what about this? Because there are questions that I cannot ask myself. I wouldn't even fathom some of the questions that I get asked, but they become so useful because they offer me an opportunity to clarify it in my own head and then I can be even more clear when I'm expressing it to someone else. Because the greatest challenge that you have, especially in this type of industry, is expressing the tacit information. You can't, right? That's why it's tacit information. So anything that you read or hear or see on the internet is explicit information, which means it can be expressed. Tacit is an experiential level of information and understanding. That's the hardest thing to pass on. So when you were an intern, what you gained was the tacit element, the experiential element. We can talk to you every day about what a split squat is supposed to look like, but until you do it, see it, coach it, screw it up a million times, you don't really understand. So as I get better at expressing things and people utilize this information and then the information comes back, they're offering me a better way to express myself.

Yeah.

Well, what I'm saying, Zach, is that you need to transition between the table and where you recognize the compensatory strategy. She doesn't have a strategy in the middle there. It's like take gravity away, she looks good. So we have to take more gravity away before you even give her a cable activity with her feet on the ground—it's still too much. Okay, a couple of other things to consider. Did you invert her?

Right. Yeah. So I was just trying to over complicate things.