Yeah.

And you talked about iterations before.

Yeah.

So you got to twist the radius. Can you appreciate that?

Yeah. Yeah.

So let's think about muscle orientation that's influencing this. So he's just trying to fight gravity. So gravity is crushing him, right? And so he's pushing up, but he's got to get into a position where he can capture some internal rotation. He doesn't have internal rotation straight down into the ground, otherwise he would stand upright. So make sure you're putting in a position that accommodates to his limitation first and then consider the muscle activity that is holding him in that position. Manually reduce that, instead of trying to push him into a position, not pleasant. If he's feeling hard stretches under any circumstance, that's just connective tissue that he's feeling, which means he got muscle activity that's holding that connective tissue in a stiffer position. So if you have a limitation in traditional hip extension. Sorry, I choked on that one. That's IR. And you've got muscles that are holding that orientation of the pelvis to prevent him access to that space. So again, you have to reduce that. If you can get him into sideline, you can work on one hip at a time. Gravity is still working for you in regards to the pelvis position. So there's a lot of stuff you can do. And I can't give you the answer that the idea that you want to understand here is that you've got a shape, physical shape that is the influence. Everything that you do is to chase the opposing shape.

It's just who's pushing up against it more. And then again, if you look at the configurations and say you've got a broad circumference in the thorax, broad circumference in the pelvis, that's why that system is very good at producing high pressures, but also not great with anything that's velocity-based. Because it doesn't have a differential. So very, very high pressures, but very slow, generally speaking, if we were comparing apples to apples. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have neuro coffee in hand and It is perfect. All right. A very busy Friday coming up. Quick housekeeping item, the applications for the Intensive 20 are now open. The email went out last night. So please check your email for that. applications can fill up very quickly. We have a we have a cap that we keep the total number of applications under to make it manageable. Please be thoughtful with your answers but let's be expeditious in regards to getting those applications back as quickly as possible. taking in today's Q&A. This is with Zach. This is a brief video, but it hits on it very hard on the concept that I'm very fond of. There are elements of trainability that tend to get ignored in protocol-ish representations, bringing somebody back from an injury or a post-surgical where people say, well, you can't do this type of activity yet. You can't do this type of activity yet, and so on and so forth, because you have to be protective in these early phases of rehab. When the reality is that if you have a representative model and you understand what elements are contributing to certain elements of performance, you understand that everything is trainable. You just have to kind of see it for what elements of the system are behaving in a certain manner so in this case Zach was talking about I believe a client that was coming off of a knee injury or knee surgery and you can't do plyometrics because you can't bounce across the ground however you can if you look at the system as to how it behaves during that type of an activity, there are parts of the system that you can start to train immediately. And so you'll see elements of this in like Charlie Francis' vertical integration, or if you're a conjugate sequence guy, you can see this, or a block periodization guy. You'll see where you're starting to layer these qualities over other elements throughout the entire training program. So there are certain elements that will deteriorate over time if they're not trained frequently enough. And the elements of dynamics, like if we're talking about like power output and things like that where we're talking about ground based activities where you would typically see the plyometrics fall into that category, they're trainable right from the get go if you look at it from the right perspective. So that's what this video is about perspective as to what's actually going on with the system. So thank you, Zach. Great question. And again, I so rudely interrupted him. because I wanted to talk about this on the coffee call. So again, thank you for your patience. Everybody have an outstanding Friday. I'll try to get the podcast up from last week and this week, this weekend. So we'll give that a shot. Everybody have a great weekend. I'll see you next week.

Right, first met head and then right heel.

So does that mean I just look for rounded shoulders? Stop right there.

Please do.

Yeah, yeah.

That makes a lot of sense. Cause I've run into that issue. Like I've tried a quick little. like the tibia thing and I'm like, oh, that feels good. And then all of a sudden I just lose and I'm like, it doesn't stick, but that connects a lot of dots. Thank you.

That's kind of where they're going to be.

So that, you know, one application of that that I had, you know what you want to watch?

Falling back, let's just say with that left side, that would come from the spine in the form of what an internal rotation.

Okay.

Okay, do you have anything interesting to talk about? Well, I have another follow up. One of the issues I have with it is that it seems like the arm and the leg are stepping in a manner that you would not step when you actually crawled.

Me twist.

So in that case, are you trying to get some consequential rotation of VMO? Yes, recreate that and then try and untwist.

Okay.

Okay. And so I'm just going to turn the mechanics. So I'm going to take my IR representation and I'm going to move it into an ER helical angle. See it? And in doing so, I create the ER up this away. You see it?

Right. The second exercise you were pushing down into the ground. Yes, sir. Right. Right. Okay. So when we start thinking about middle propulsion where we're assuming that we have the joint range of motion, the necessary ER space, where basically middle propulsion is like now let's start actually pushing into the ground and then evolving that in the appropriate direction.

Yeah.

Okay. So for me to have a normal externally rotated hand, I have to be able to supinate when they cut about hands. Or if you're talking old school, radial deviation. It requires that the distal radius is not turned into internal rotation too far because if it turns into internal rotation too far, it takes away my external rotation. That's what the pistol test is for. So for me to move my thumb into that externally rotated position, I have to have space there to do it. So to open it up, see it. Well, if this is twisted into internal rotation here, I cannot open that thumb up.

Okay.

How about for a second. Are you trying to figure out how the tension translates from one place to another, or are you trying to look locally at like a compartment, like a muscle compartment would be almost like a

Yeah, put an SI belt on them, like secure the ilia so that you're creating the compression. So you artificially create the internal rotation representation of the pelvis. So now I got an AFO, again, SI belt. So now I got a foot that can capture a midfoot representation. I got a better shot. And I can't tell you how good this is going to be, but I got a better shot at creating the internal rotation representation of the pelvis at the same time. Because I just need the shape change. Right? And then hopefully, hopefully I get enough of them, they have enough of the motor output available to them that they can actually access this position.

Okay. You got to get her up and out of that. Now, here's the concern. So if she's lost legitimate toe range of motion through an arthritic change, you have a great change that you are not going to be able to alter. You have to create a substitution for that motion. Otherwise she's going to keep walking like Frankensteiner.

So when I say early propulsion, guess what happens at the beginning of a golf swing? Are we stuck?

That's the thing I'm not getting. If it's the y. Wait a minute.