All right, man. All right. Great day.

Okay.

I got, yeah.

Okay. You see the difference?

Does that help you?

Yeah, I definitely was confused about that too. The loading of a split squat, and that makes sense—now that you mentioned that, you made this is exactly the same. So here's where the money is: regardless of whether you're using the asymmetrical load or the band under these circumstances, what you're going to want to make sure that you're coaching or feeling yourself if this is for yourself. It doesn't matter.

Okay.

I'm already kind of going in my head thinking, you know.

Definitely not.

In my mind, I've always just considered yielding to be relaxing and lengthening, and then overcoming to be...

So that's the perfect word. It's the perfect word because that's why there's not one singular representation because everything is a gradient. Everything's happening at the same time. So when I go on this oblique tilt, I may actually pick up internal rotation on the side where we talk about losing internal rotation.

Yeah, yeah. So when you think about having all this really cool relative motion, it's like you're able to absorb and release the energy efficiently. So when you hear foot contact, that's an indication that you're not absorbing and releasing force. So we can take this concept into the gym. And so when you're doing box jumps with your athletes and you hear the slam on the box, it's like, okay, that's somebody that doesn't absorb force very well. So they're kind of telling you what their strategies are and what you might need to actually work on just by sound, just by sound alone. Cause again, if I'm releasing energy as sound, that's energy that I'm not absorbing, which is probably what I'm trying to teach them to do in the first place, right? That makes sense. So, so, so chances are, chances are, man, well, it's like your upstairs neighbors probably need to work on some yielding action.

So that's their compensation. So let's go back to Grace's question. Grace could probably answer this question if she, yeah, she could probably do it now, right? Cause we just talked about it. So if I have somebody that is biased towards a compressive strategy, they will have to find a way to breathe in against that strategy at some point in time. And so that is the first compensatory strategy is to try to pull the diaphragm down against the resistance. And that's what holds the ISA open wide.

She's back on campus now. So they're going to get back into team lifts. Her strength coach is pretty good and will send me the program to make whatever modifications I want. I'm looking at the program and trying to figure out if, in their program, the traditional plank, dead bug, and similar rectus abdominal activities can be included. Initially, I took those completely off the table for her. By the end of the fall when I was working with her, however, she's now starting to be able to move in and out of positions more easily from a shape standpoint and is not getting stuck. So now I'm trying to determine if those activities could potentially fit into her program. When I think about the shapes I wanted her to hit and the direct force application under her pelvis and rib cage with the lower extremity, the application might look similar to the grant, though the extremity position might be different. The muscle activity, however, is very different. I'm unsure about it now.

Yeah, all of her running drills, all of her jumping drills, all of that stuff can be done in the anti-gravity environment.

I guess I was overcomplicating stuff in my head thinking I was missing out on something that was super helpful.

So this is the position that you're talking about. It moves it away from midline. It's not like it's way out into ER, but it's going to promote some ER. So if I have a guy that can't acquire dead center straight down middle, and I want to start to promote a distal IR, so like a mobilization of IR, that might be a useful thing to do, to acquire a position.

How is she gonna initiate?

Because again, putting them in a grounded position and expecting them to behave like a narrow base doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. Right. Bigger, you're bigger, stronger guys. Yeah. It becomes an exercise in futility. You start to see all the IR compensatory strategies and stuff show up because we just stick them in a space they don't have. But the recognition of that allows you to guide them into a position where you see a lot less of the compensatory stuff.

Okay, and I have to push it in that direction. That's like the tibia forward.

Okay, but you're not going to go through internal rotation until you get to a joint that can internally rotate.

Yeah. I think, OK. Thank you. I see you. I just need to re-understand that.

The right foot's back where you have it up against the wall or just the offset staggered. Anything where the left foot's forward and the right foot's back.

I didn't say she had to leave the ground, did I? In fact, she could do it sitting down if you wanted to.

Awesome. That's a turn. You get a sense of that?

That's the compressed representation of the sternum. So that Jessica- We call it rounded shoulders and everybody thinks that the shoulder thingy is the fix, right? Because it's a shoulder problem. If you call it winging scapulae, you blame the scapulae for the winging and then that's not the problem. See, that's why these situations are perpetuated, right? Because they called them something and they misnamed them, right? So when you see what looks like the so-called rounded shoulders, you know you've got an anteriorly compressed journal.

You can stop right there. And I'm going to be thrilled with that. OK. What's the interference to that?

Got to bring baseball in. Um, so, this, and this might be coincidence that I've seen this with the last few players I've been working with, which is as they go, let's say it's a right-handed pitcher and they're getting into their lead leg. As they plant into stride foot contact and they start to turn, they're leaving that kind of right side open and they're not getting that pelvis to turn. And I don't know if it's, is it that they can't get the pelvis to turn left? And or they're keeping the right side open. Are those paired together?

So let me talk golf.

Yeah.