In turn, I rotate the femur and tibia into external tissue.

Yeah, that's right.

Or a different bar.

Okay.

Okay, yeah, so you're getting more ER space and you're using up the IR space that you have.

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Right.

Should I be monitoring like IRs or something?

Yeah. But that's why everybody wonders why you see the Olympic lifters bouncing their butt before they pull. It's like they're optimizing stiffness. It's the same thing that when you've got the bar racked before the jerk and you try to get that perfect amount of air. So you're like sipping and blowing, sipping and blowing, sipping and blowing before you go into the jerk. That's tuning. That's tuning stiffness. Same thing from the bottom up.

So the way this works is you have to have a progressive weakening of the posterior elements of the disc first. That would be associated with a reduction in blood flow to the vertebra where the greatest pressure is in the spine, which is typically in the two most commonly herniated discs in the lumbar spine—L5S1 and L4L5.

I suppose lateral.

Yeah, that's a lifetime for me, man. Like a dog. I'm like a dog. It's like seven years.

Yes.

And I have a lot of trouble with people like that. Don't we all?

Every day kind of a thing. So how do you know how well somebody's recovered in the weight room?

Okay. So is that an extra step between the inhalation bias strategy that comes with the exhalation bias on the

Yeah, I got you. The other thing with this body type or archetype is that they tend to be what I would picture as a narrow ISA archetype from the lumbar spine down, like very flat from a visual representation, flat lumbar spine, but kind of tucked underneath like a frog that just stood up almost.

Do you see how it just cascades? So find those positions that he does have the available range of motion. Chances are it's going to be slightly away from midline. It's going to be slightly staggered to start, and then you just build him out from there.

My question is in regards to training different connective tissue behaviors. When we're using whatever variation, if you're trying to train a more yielding bias in the connective tissues, is there some sort of local training effect where whatever variation you're doing is actually improving the local ability of the connective tissue by itself to yield or to be stiffer on the other side of the equation? Or is it more that the connective tissue itself is dumb, for lack of a better way of saying it, and it's just going to respond to whatever load you're using, the activity, or the orientations that are placing load through it while you're doing the activity? The question is coming from the standpoint that for those of us in team strength conditioning settings or higher volume PT settings, where you can't monitor changes in relative motions and range of motion after every activity, if we're trying to prescribe these activities, is it not doing what we think it's doing if they're not able to maintain certain positions throughout the session? Or would you get some benefit just by virtue of the activity itself?

If I'm teaching a young quarterback, I love what you teach about compression on one side and expansion on the other side through unilateral work. So if I was starting with a younger quarterback who is learning basic skills and is novice in the weight room, what should I start with in that unilateral motion to create expansion and compression, to really maintain the external rotation fields that I want to keep versus starting them on bilateral lifts like a bench press, squat, or deadlift? I want to conserve that external rotation field as long as possible while avoiding internal rotation.

A sprinter's ground contact time, like at the highest possible levels, is between 0.1 and 0.2 seconds. It's like they're ticking so fast. But, so again, as a martial artist, a punch is delivered at about 1,200 degrees per second, which is still really fast. So it's like spinning your arm around in a circle four times in a second. That's how fast a punch is. So you think about, and again, I know you're not a big fan, look at the one inch punch concept. No, but yes. But what he's actually doing is he's using that concept to deliver the force production. So there's that brief moment where there's that load. It's like a sprinter's contact to the ground where he is stretching the connective tissues, they store the energy and then they release it and it's translated into the punch itself. I know the concept is kind of funny, but the reality is that's how force is delivered. It's the load of the connective tissue, so the connective tissues expand, they yield, they overcome as they release their energy, and that's why you get the force pushing. Muscles can't do that.

He does it very, very quickly. And then he also has a way to produce the ER. Your concern is where he is doing this. You've already expressed that. Is he doing it with his tissues? Most likely he is. And then it's your job to say, okay, this is where I think we're okay. Here's where I think I need to step in. The only way you're ever going to know is to train him because you just have to get to know this person. While there are physiologically certain elements within a baseball pitch that have to occur, his physical structure is going to determine how he does it. And that's why we all don't get to throw 98 miles an hour in the major leagues—because he's different. He found what he was good at. He found a way to do it. And then your job, no pressure here, is to make sure his superpower doesn't come back to destroy him because it will. He's had a couple of things going on where he says, okay, the low back gets tight, you get the biceps load. So when you get the biceps load, you know you've got a deceleration issue. You have to figure out how he does these things. You know he's going to have max propulsion. It has to be there. You know he's going to have to demonstrate extra rotation somewhere because that kind of velocity does not show up in internal rotation. There's a powerlifter with sustained propulsion where there's no time constraint. It'll be identified very easily. But in his case, you're probably just going to have to look at high-speed videos and say, okay, here's where this is happening. This is where I need to monitor. That's going to guide you in your process.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So when they compress anteriorly, yes, you're going to start to lose the internal rotation because they still have posterior expansion under those circumstances. In fact, I'm kind of forcing it under those circumstances where I'm pushing from the front, I have expansion posteriorly. That maintains my ER representation, but I'm losing IR under those circumstances.

And would that be kind of similar to if it was like a posterior or lower compressive?

So as I release that weight and the connective tissues start to re-expand, and I push really hard, I can actually get through the sticking point by using velocity. I can create momentum from the bottom up by releasing the load. That's how the weight releasers work. Does that make sense?

How can you have that with the bands, unless you're like getting assistance with your hands? Does that make sense?

So how do you, just to follow up on that, how do you like, what was your evolution of, I guess, your first principles? Is that kind of the, is it the same way? And like, when do you, is it continually evolving? Your first principles or do those not, those don't change?

Yeah. Makes a lot of sense.