Right, it shifts it downward, doesn't it? Yes, that's why you can't raise your arm overhead when you have a superior glenoid labrum tear. It's not that the muscles aren't lifting the arm. It's never going to happen—no matter how hard you try, it's such a tiny little thing. But what it does do is push the fluid content down underneath the humerus, which lifts the arm up. But if I don't have enough muscle to do that, I can no longer shift the fluid down. So the fluid stays at the top of the shoulder joint. And guess what? I can't compress the fluid compartment because it doesn't compress—it's water—and I can't raise my arm up. So I can't overcome that.

I would do a power clean because there's a little bit more yield posteriorly compared to the snatch.

The two that I find most useful are the external rotation and straight leg raises.

Welcome, sir. It's not kind of separated. It is different. Like they are not the same. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have the extra large neuro coffee in hand and It is perfect. Had to go extra large today. I'm actually about ready to talk to Dr. Mike Rossell, the creator of NeuroCoffee. Gotta be ready. Gotta make sure I get enough dose of the BDNF in me for that call. It's gonna be a fun one. Digging in today's Q&A, this is with Ivan. Ivan asked a great question. Ivan's great because he comes in and he ties things in with the foundational elements of the model. And so we talked about how the pelvis behaves a little bit and then we got into the connected tissue behavior versus muscle behavior. So this is concentric to eccentric orientation versus The overcoming and yielding actions of the connective tissue. They are not the same and they are separate I know it's a point of confusion for a lot of people because we've never really looked at connective tissues to this extent Connective tissue behavior is where the money is and if we can get to behave correctly We can apply the Austin Ulrich principle of connective tissue tuning effectively. We are much more successful when we can understand these things. So this will be a great question for a lot of people. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com. and put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so we don't delete it. We'll arrange it at our mutual convenience. Don't forget, go to the YouTube channel if you have foundational questions. All of the videos eventually end up up there. So please go there, subscribe and we will have an outstanding weekend. If you're in the two week sprint, this is recovery weekend. So a lot of reflection going on this weekend. You guys do the same. Have a great weekend. I'll see you next week.

I suppose. Oh, yeah.

So that's what he's using. He's literally using that anti-orientation to buy him the downforce. So he's trying. If you look at his hip measures, he's trying to get himself back because he's pushing. It almost looks like he's got his weight too far back in his stance. Before delivery, he'll try to hold himself back and then he's got to accelerate himself forward and that's why the orientation kicks in. So again, it's like it's going to show up in a little bit of a glitch in his stance—his weight's going to be too far back over the right foot and then he's trying to catch up with the orientation. And so he's artificially trying to create the delay. So he's magnifying the late representation with his left side in his stance. And then he's got to sort of catch up with the anti-orientation on the right. So it's going to be moving on this really hard diagonal kind of a turn so he can get the downforce on the right leg. This is going to be a dude that I would be concerned about, like the medial knee pain, L5S1. I would also be looking at, you're probably going to be looking at, like his right shoulder IR might be magnified because he's going to use an IR strategy at the lower cervical spine as well. So he might have, so you might expect him to have like maybe 45 degrees of shoulder IR and he walks in with 75. And that's not shoulder range of motion. That's going to be his neck.

My question is about vertical jump. I'm working with a young lady who, on the descent, descends into her sticking point and then almost re-descends at the bottom before going up. Based on Andrew's question, my initial thought was to use a touch and go. However, when she jumps, she's like what you described in your wide ISA video—she's a back jumper with a narrow ISA. I'm still confused about that. I'm trying to determine which intervention to use first. Should I use a box squat to help with this, or do I need to capture the concentric overcoming first because she seems to be waiting for the guts to get down there?

Isometric core activities do not exist.

Cool. Thank you very much.

Is it facing to the right and beginning to turn left?

Yeah, but I also threw up finger quotes.

Yes, definitely.

So again, you have to differentiate. So you know how I'm fond of talking about the seven components of force, right? Each one of those will create a different behavior in regards to how the connected tissues will respond to load, time, frequency, variability, et cetera, et cetera. But when you make a direct comparison like this, it's a little bit easier to see the difference between one and the other, how it would affect those tissues.

All right. Well, I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you, Jason. Great to talk to you.

Okay. Thank you.

Okay. I'm not saying your feet. Do you want me to go backwards?

Yeah. So you just tipped it forward, right? And turned it.

So it's like their patellas are pointing a little bit more medial as their feet are pointing.

So, put her in left sideline and work through an excursion of partial rolls where she creates expansion. As she rolls in one direction, she'll create compression in the other. Take her back and forth that way. You could probably drive some of the scapula PNF patterns, but don't forget about the pelvis because we know she's got a deficit there too. The pelvis and thorax will behave very similarly. If she doesn't get expansion in the pelvis, she won't get it in the thorax. So pay attention to your ER measures on the same side hip. If you put her in left sideline and check hip abduction, and there's a limitation or you can't get her into the appropriate measurement position, you have issues to address otherwise you won't get them in the shoulder. This is why we run into issues with post-surgical patients because people focus on the affected area and don't recognize the whole axial skeleton's influence. Make sure you're not neglecting the lower areas—it will help you every time.

Are you really? Man, I'd go for a home run. I would, I would kill this. That's why I'm here. Here's what I want you to think about. So all right. She's an ER. Yep. Okay. He's a neutral. Where is the ER and the femur magnified to its greatest degree? Where you got IR at the knee right now, boss?

Because I only want the people that care.

Okay, cool. Yeah, again, and you'll just have to attend to your velocities, because again, if you move too quickly into a position, tissues might be a little stiffer. Right? And so you just have to account for that. And so this is something that you would identify in real time, as far as am I getting the response that I intended to get?

Okay.

Yep.

I'm just here to kill time, trust me.

It didn't feel like you had to push back with your right foot, did it?

So I have to pick everything up on the backside. I literally have to pick it up and dump it onto the front leg. So that's going to lift the right foot up off the ground instead of dragging it through. So if I had IR, then I could go straight through. So this is, and we talk about drag marks, like the shape of drag marks, like whenever you see a curve, that's an ER, that's an ER-compensed stroke strategy. When they have IR, they go straight, like it's a straight line drag mark. So if I can't produce the IR on the right side for the right-handed pitcher, I have too much ER, can't push down into the ground. I have to get the weight to the front leg. It's just pick it up, dump it over onto the lead leg so the foot goes up off the ground.

Okay. The one thing you never want to do with a golfer is make his swing like someone else's. The thing you want to recognize is that there are certain elements of a golf swing that have to be present for all golfers to swing a golf club. So it's the spaces in between that makes them an individual, and then there's those elements that have to be there. So I need an early representation, I need a middle representation, and I need a late representation. Their physical structure is going to determine how they do that. So you take a tall slender golfer and you take a short stocky golfer. They both have early, middle, and late representations, but they're better at certain aspects of that. And so their golf swing cannot look the same.

And with the wide ISA scenario where Alex said that they have very ER posterior lower ribcage, because the spine is ER at that point as well. So we have a bend in the spine if I see it right. Would it make sense to try manipulate that in like a three month prone position and just to reduce the

As he is executing this. I get that, yeah, I get that.