Okay.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So 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 anti-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'll be 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. You know, 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 internal rotation might be magnified because he's going to use an internal rotation 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 internal rotation and he walks in with 75. And that's not shoulder range of motion. That's going to be his neck.

Um, on the downside of the internal rotation measure. Yeah.

This is loosely related to what Zach was just talking about. It seems like there's potentially a pretty general path of motion that the pelvis takes as it moves forward to try and get internal rotation. I've heard you talk in the past about, one second. Scratch that. So it might have a lateral orientation and then move forward until it can move forward anymore and then move to the right. Is that like a pretty defined sequence in space-time of how that occurs or is there? Because I'm having a hard time identifying when you're supposed to push left versus come back versus... hopefully. So how do you know how far in one direction that you would push? Let's just say side to side. What would be your distinguishing characteristic to tell you that you're really pushed over to one side?

Right.

It's not getting dragged with the pelvis at the proximal femur.

Gotcha. So in getting to the field, the pressures and the tensions, you're not just doing it for them, you are

So that's a factor, that is a factor, but there's also a greater time between loads. Even though it looks fast visually—you're dropping quickly—the amount of time the tissues are exposed before reaching peak magnitude of that effort is longer. You see the difference? We must be aware of that, right? This is messy and gray. I get many questions about this, and people try to categorize it into four neat boxes. They ask, 'If I'm using this magnitude and this speed, what's the direct comparison?' But you can't understand the difference that way, because all these factors are happening simultaneously. I discuss the seven components of force as if applied individually, but they're all applied at once—one may just be more dominant. So if we're talking about a very high percentage of one-rep max, magnitude might be the most important factor from an intensity standpoint. You see it? It comes down to your intention: What outcome do you want? If I have an intention, I can manipulate the exercise by understanding how these forces apply to tissues, what the response should be based on viscoelastic tissue properties, and what the actual outcome will be. That's how you know you did it right: You achieve your intended result and can say, 'Good job,' or realize you need to rethink your approach.

So my question is on assessment. I've been working with more people online recently and I try to do table measures virtually. I've noticed that it can be very time-consuming getting multiple angles to ensure there are no compensations, and walking people through these things. I've accepted that aspect, but I'm getting more into using movements—like let's see how you're walking, squatting, or crawling. However, I'm not yet confident in looking at someone crawling and determining what they need. I was wondering if you use movements like these to assess issues compared to table tests, and if so, what are you looking for? What do these movements tell you? This is a broad question, but I was wondering if you know what table tests represent.

And I guess this is true too, you know, assuming that a quarterback has the capabilities to even rotate, right? Because one thing I appreciate, I was watching an old video of what you were talking about in rotational thrower athletes. It was a baseball pitcher, but throwing is throwing. But you talked about how the more compact that a thrower can stay to the line that he's moving to, the faster he's going to be. So if I have a quarterback or any thrower that starts to lack some of these ranges of rotation to the shoulders and hips through compression, yeah, I start to deviate away from that quickness too.

He did this to me a few months ago, Jordan, so I feel your pain.

So now we're back to putting your hands on the desk, was it Christian? We put his hands on the desk and we turned them. It's the same thing, right?

I don't know what they call it.

So you've got, think about this. So you're still in the protective phase of this right shoulder, but you've got a left extremity. You've got two lower extremities and the rest of the axial skeleton and her neck because we know that we've got an influence there as well. So when you think about end range shoulder flexion, here's what we need there. We need the upper thoracic spine and the lower cervical spine to be able to turn towards the same direction. So if you're checking traditional shoulder flexion in the imaginary sagittal plane, you better have a neck that can turn that way because if you don't, there's no way that she's ever going to get to end range comfortably.

Like L5S1, like just.

Oh, awesome. OK. Last week, I don't know if you saw last week—it was a foot, it was a foot call.

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?

I was giving you an extreme to take away all other options.

So I guess.

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

Good morning. Happy Friday. I have NeuroCoffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. A very busy Friday coming up. We're going to dig straight into today's Q&A. This is with Zach. Zach is working with some elastic resistance activities. Typically when we talk about this, we're talking about using them on the vertical, say in a box squat situation where we might have a band-resisted type of squat activity or a band-assisted squat activity where we're trying to influence gut behaviors and connective tissues. But we can also use these on the horizontal, so to speak, when we're talking about changes of direction and such. But we're still dealing with the same issues. We're still dealing with how we're going to influence gut behavior. We're still going to influence connective tissue behavior because we're dealing with time. What the elastic resistance allows us to do is to influence acceleration so we can have positive accelerations or negative accelerations that will allow us to either buffer some of these forces or augment these forces and actually increase the acceleration, which will again influence how much internal force that we have to manage and then how much load on the connective tissue behaviors. So this is going to be a great question for a lot of people. So thank you, Zach, for bringing it up. Podcast will be up on Sunday as usual. Everybody have an outstanding weekend and I will see you next week.

I'm sure you figured that out, but we're here to help the whole world. No, I just, it's just one of those things like whoever's got the hot clubs in the PGA is everybody tries to swing golf club like them and then they end up with like, you know, her needed discs and trying to swing golf club like somebody else.

All right, all right.

So what's the defining characteristic? When we're looking at it from here, just so I'm getting a little confused on this left shift video that you went through the sequence with the pelvis and explained that they've got a narrow ischium and they've got a compression at the apex of the sacrum naturally and then they've acquired a compression at the posterior left at the base of the sacrum which has started to turn the spine to the right but they still had availability or an open space, or some room in the posterior lower left. So when that was on the left shift video that you had, it's not a space.

So at first, like their back pocket on the right will go back.

Yes.

Okay. I apologize for not having that video handy. I know it's on the Facebook group somewhere, but I couldn't find it very easily.

I understand.

If I squeeze something between my knees, I don't want somebody that does that, that closes that space. The goal would be to open that space by squeezing the knees together. And the unfortunate circumstance is that in a lot of cases, especially with your narrow ISAs, they don't get that expansion. It's not automatic, because again, if you have a big turn through the femur, so I got an ER proximal and distal femur and I put something between their knees, I can still ER. That's the concern, especially in an upright posture, right? Because they're used to being forward. You're doing a good thing by creating the forefoot elevation because that immediately slows them down. It keeps their center of gravity back. That's good. The tibia is in a relative position of mid-foot. That's good. Now you just got to make sure that you've got a pelvis that can change shape enough. And then you're going to be successful with that.