I know.

We're trying to end up in an OI odd representation. So we can put power into the ground.

So weird that you always have to go.

I see.

So as the ribs straighten, this is the ribs straightening. So start there. And then they straighten. They go down and forward like that. So the pressure that you're going to use is going to be up and back to create the curve. So here's a common error: people push on the front of the rib cage on a narrow ISA and they push down into the table and they shove the ribs further down. It's the exact wrong direction. It's an A to P compression, but it's in the inferior to superior direction on the helix. That's the direction you have to go. Because if you just push straight down into the table, and it's one of the funniest things you're ever going to see the first time you do it—it's funny for you, it's not funny for the person you're doing it to—you suffocate them because you push them down and you say, 'Take a breath in,' and then they can't take a breath in because you just pinned them down to the table. Yeah, I've done it.

OK.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's kind of like this, it's like the same thing that we're talking about though, right?

Yeah.

The thing is if I put him in a split squat with the left foot forward, he's really good at managing the balance and it looks really well. Even the foot, it's not deviating. But if I put the right foot forward, he feels really unstable and unpleasant in the knee.

Do the exercise in your head. Make it perfect. And now, so you're going to try to slide the left hip back to make the turn from right to left. And I'm going to put my hand, I'm going to put my hand against your left sacral base and not let you move, but you're going to push against my hand. What would you do to push against my hand? Okay.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. And that's what I'm trying to avoid. That's why you're going to use the prop, because what I want to do is I want the hand to ER relative to the radius. Because it's IR relative to the radius.

Oh, okay. So I could just, I could work bilaterally on pulling it back. Okay.

Okay. And then when I finished the RDL on my hip scope board, what would happen to that connected tissue?

Awesome. Perfect. That's what I would do.

I'm with you, man. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Every time I cook a chicken, I do that when I take an idea. Wonderful. No, so we have to create a substitution for joint range is emotion at the feet. How do you do that? Grace, Grace. I got pen and paper. I'm ready. Great. Say it out loud.

It's moving through space, starting.

Could affection?

There was a sound. I don't know.

Yeah.

Got it.

So it's the only way it can happen. It's the only way it can happen. Okay. So here you go, Alex. Get a bankart lesion in your shoulder. What did you just, what did you just destroy in regards to what you just described?

Good morning. Happy Friday. I have neurocopy in hand and it is perfect. All right. Well, happy Friday. Happy New Year's Eve Day, sort of like a pseudo holiday, I suppose. Everybody's taking a little bit of time off today. So we're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is the end of a conversation that I had off of a question. We'd been talking about knees and exercise selection and sequencing. And the point of this part of the discussion was really important because what it talks about is how an exercise can favorably influence an outcome or create interference. And I think that there's a lot of questions as to how certain exercise do influence an outcome. The most important thing to recognize is that if I understand the starting conditions, and so that's where archetypes and body structure and then phases of propulsion come into play, and if I understand the intention of where I want to end up, then the exercises should move me in that direction without conflict. But it's the understanding, and this is why a representative model that is coherent becomes so important because it does allow us to select the appropriate exercises. And then, again, we want to eliminate any interference that we create on our own. So the greater the clarity of the understanding of where you are allows the program to sort of write itself, if you will, because it's going to allow you to select the appropriate activities based on your intention. So again, very important conversation here for a lot of people. Just a quick reminder, go to the YouTube channel. Get yourself subscribed so you get all of the videos that we start here on Instagram and they end up loaded up onto the YouTubes. So please go there and subscribe. Have an outstanding New Year's and I will see you next week. From a principal standpoint, there are times where we want to maximize the yielding action right. And then there's times where we want to put you towards a position, but hold it back so it doesn't go too fast in regards to going forward. So we talk about delay. It's like sometimes I want to maximize the position. So like the earliest of early propulsive representations would be that first superimposition of internal rotation on that big yielded maximized early representation. And then there's times where I want to push you forward, but then I want to stop you and hold you there so that that side does not get ahead of the other side yet. So as we, as we have a situation where one side might be trying to go faster than the other side. Right. Number one, we have to capture the position. So that's what I'm talking about by moving you all the way back to an early representation.

Thank you. It just doesn't make sense. You know what an oxymoron is? I think it's like jumbo shrimp—doesn't make sense, right? Jumbo means big, shrimp means small. Aqueous humor means wet and dry. Doesn't make sense. Little things like that go a long way, but it does take some understanding of the physiology as to why that doesn't make sense. Now think about this. Why do you get sore after eccentric training?

One of our strength coaches at work stopped in because her right shoulder was bothering her during some overhead lifts, specifically Olympic lifting. She noted two interesting things: during a split jerk, if she started from the front rack position, it would really hurt her when she went overhead. However, if she started from behind her neck and pressed, she didn't feel pain. The other observation was that when she threw her right leg forward in what would be her front rack position, it caused pain, but when she threw the left leg forward, it didn't bother her as much.

That matters. That matters. Okay. Light matters. All that stuff. Right? He's uncomfortable. Right. Don't make him more so. If you want to reduce them, he's got muscle activity out the wazoo that's telling you he's uncocked, like he stands up, he's uncomfortable.

Yeah, it'll be like an anterior orientation.

Yep.

So simple.