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Okay. Is the bar drifting away from him or is he moving away from the bar? It is the question, my friend. Which direction is gravity working on this barbell? So do you think he's actually pushing the barbell away from his center of gravity? Wouldn't that be kind of difficult to do? So he's changing his orientation relative to the weight, right? Moving away from him. That's him moving away from the load on the right side, which would mean the right sides coming back. So it's kind of like the right shift on a squat. Right.

Like right now, I posted it, but Bill, I sent it to you on DM. If you look at the bottom of the chat.

Cause these days that feel like that with the 30. So, but let's, so my cue is always in our breathing. And for me, I know that it always feels like it's easier if I breathe out on the way down and up on the way up. In that particular movement, right? I feel like anytime I'm breathing in, I'm limiting my space going down, per se, right? And I don't know. So I guess my question, it would be this, is what would be the strategy change between a wide and a narrow and doing a movement like this? And saying that you already own the two end positions.

Right. Absolutely. That's all I needed. Thank you.

So what you may find is that you need to work on hip representation as your primary intention. This doesn't mean you can't do a split squat; it just means that if you're focused on axial position, pelvic orientation, and the hip, it would stand to reason that you can eliminate other elements that don't have to move as much. So your knee doesn't move as much, and your ankle doesn't move as much when doing a campo deadlift. Again, the complexity of a split squat is greater than a campo. My point is that I have to control axial orientation, pelvic orientation, hip representation, knee, and then the foot and ankle. All of that is still moving in a campo, but it moves a lot less at the knee and foot. Therefore, it will be easier to influence proximal orientation because I don't have to worry as much about knee position or foot position, as those are moving during the movement. So when trying to teach someone a position, is it best to do it at high speed with a full range of motion? It's about how to set this up for the greatest return on investment. If you need to constrain an element of position, teach static activities, like staying in a position or holding it so they can sense what you want them to do. Remember how we were talking about setting people up at the end of the exercise so they knew where they were supposed to go?

Well, some of it is yes, but if the joint position changes, right? That becomes muscle orientation. I'm not talking about stretching. If you feel a sensation of stretch, okay? If you feel the sensation of stretch, you are pulling on connective tissue. If the joint changes and there is no sensation of stretch, that's a change in muscle orientation. So that's how you distinguish between the two is like when I talk about eccentric oriented muscle, that allows the joint to change the position without any tension on it. That's how you distinguish them. So if you're feeling the pull, guess what you're doing? You're yanking on connective tissues. So you're either at the very end of the excursion of a joint where you do have full eccentric orientation of a muscle or you still have concentrically oriented muscle and you're pulling on connective tissues. You just have to look for the joint shape change to distinguish what is going on. You have to pay attention to the sensation to determine what is going on.

Well, I'm using the left side to produce right IR. Because I'm filling in the gap. Let's just say that she's got 60% of IR capability on the right side versus the left, okay? I'm going to take the cane and I'm going to apply a force into the ground. Now, is it going to fill the 40%? No. What's the percentage? What is the desired percentage of IR force delivered by a cane under all circumstances to eliminate a gate deficit? Do you know what that answer is? No. 5%. It's about, seriously, you can find it, you just gotta look really hard. It's probably like in one paper in the whole wide world. It's about a 5% deficit. And I'm talking about like a point contact, right? A single point contact. Like they give you the quad canes and stuff like that. You can put more pressure on those, okay, which is why they exist, right? So you can deliver more, but that's going to give you upwards of like 10 to 15% probably by contact. But the point is, it's like, I'm going to use my unaffected side to fill the deficit of IR that she lacks on that side. Okay? You get it? Yeah, I think so. It's pretty straight. I mean, what you recognize is like, oh, wait a minute, we're just talking about positions like we always talk about. Yes. So this is why, I'm going to pat myself on the back. This is why the model is useful is because it doesn't matter what we're talking about. It doesn't matter if we're talking about a stroke. It doesn't matter if we're talking about a sprained ankle. It doesn't matter if we're talking about back pain or a broken nose. I don't care. The model is useful in a cross context. That means it's closer to the truth. Right. So if you understand the model, all you have to do is recognize, okay, what is the constraints? What is the deficit? What do I have available to work with? How can I use the other side to compensate for that? If I have a permanent constraint change, what are you going to do? Well, I got to borrow. Right. That's where you start to add stuff. Right. AFO, SI belt, cane. Get it?

Yeah.

The wave stopped in one area?

Okay, so if I get pushed like this, that would turn everything inward. You see that? Okay, so now, I don't want to walk around with my arm hanging in front of me all day. How do I bring it back? Don't retract. That's a lousy representation because you can't move like that. You push the thorax. Do this for me. Stand up? All right, push the whole shoulder girdle forward like I just showed you. Now, all I want you to do is externally rotate your shoulder from that position. What happened? Well, the whole extremity moved backwards. Did it move backwards or did it just externally rotate and you turned your scapula relative to your humerus? Oh, yeah. So you moved the scapula, the medial border of the scapula away from the thorax, didn't you?

Yeah.

Fair. Okay. So the extent of that is whatever representation he brings to the table. You're going to evaluate him. You're going to say, 'Hey, what can you do?' What motions do you have available to you? So you're going to measure him just like you do anybody else. Okay. And then you're going to observe and see what he can and can't do. Where can he create support? Where can he create compression? Okay. And then depending on what he can and can't do, you've got to drive the expansion and compression on the unaffected side to help him capture a position on the other side. So the way that you create compression in a space that he can't compress is you expand the other side to such a degree that the other side is relatively compressed.

He applies force and he's demonstrating this one.

No. Why don't they have full knee motion? Why don't they have full knee motion? Because it's crammed full of fluid. Right. So why do we look at that and we go, oh, yeah, your knee's going to be stiff and you're going to be in a range of motion because it's full of water. And then we look at somebody else's shoulder and we go, oh, it's a muscle problem. No, it's the fluid shift. You see it? It's the same rule.

Left.

I'm confused. You're making a reference to something that I said a long time ago. I understand now. I'm with you. Okay.

Gotcha.

Okay, yeah. So the way that you adjust the plane of the swing is usually through trunk orientation. If I chop you right at L5S1 and create a hard bend, it'll look like a side bend but it's actually a turn. The thorax is here and he's turning the thorax like that. The thorax is tilting up, so he drops his back shoulder and now his swing plane is going up.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, absolutely. And since it started to come on these calls, just being able to pick and choose these traditional exercises that I was just throwing at someone randomly, like now I'm having a reason for them has been really helpful.

I'm actually not sure. I mean, visually to a certain degree, you can see it. But I don't have good table measure representations.

Yep.

Yeah. OK. So in space time, you get the twist of the distal femur before continuing to travel your center of mass all the way forward, like through the femurs.

So yeah, you wouldn't feel a stretch there.

I don't even have a memory of that. Go ahead.

So they're trying to create more external rotation to get that internal rotation.

So a compressed athlete that we know is lacking some rotation in areas where we want rotation, would he ever perform an exercise with his foot flat? Would we want him to do that? If we knew he was compressed. Sure. Okay, so would that be interference stuff? Because in my mind that's mid-level.

I made my right side super heavy.

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