So, what sequence do I want to teach a supine cross connect under most circumstances?

Okay. Yeah, because if they walked in the door, they're somehow getting through all of the propulsive phases, whether they have access to them or not. They're just going to create it somewhere. Why do I describe internal rotation and external rotation as either movement down or movement up? Because that's what it is, and how you create that is dependent on your structure and how you're managing the constraints. So your internal rotation might be at L5S1, pushing you into the ground because you can't do it from the hip because that is twisted into external rotation because of your superficial compressive strategy. You see it? So what they should have told you in school, when you were measuring table tests and they said this is how you measure hip internal rotation at 90 degrees of hip flexion, what they should have said is the whole system is turning into internal rotation. We just want most of it to come from the hip joint. And they didn't tell you, oh, when you get hip internal rotation in this position, the spine is also turning away from you. They didn't tell you that, but that's what's happening.

expanding and compressing.

You did. And it's nearly 100% accurate.

Okay. Where do I capture that? How do I know that I'm going to maintain that internal rotation with that activity with the extended leg? What cues do I need to make sure that I'm capturing the internal rotation element?

So I'm putting the wall there so you don't fall backwards and get a concussion. All right. Take a legitimate step backwards. So lean back, lean back, and take a step backwards.

And thus the wide ribs, because your strategy is to try to inhale.

Poster your compartment of lower leg, right?

Okay.

I was going to bring this back to the initial question. The concentric orientation that was driving her forward was still creating enough of a twist at the knee, resulting in an influence that she didn't have on the right side anymore, presumably because I had her off the right side by then.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I just wanted to get your take on it. I'm guessing my other case isn't much different—it probably has some similarities. I've shown this girl on one of the intensive calls before. She's post-op ACL, probably about 10 months now post-op. We keep running into the cycle where every time we start to introduce higher volumes of impact again, she gets shooting pain up her medial knee, almost like medial shin. Is this a plateau?

And if you need to take more load off, even do like a wall slide. And again, that's a very low intensity effort. Yeah. Right. And so then you make your comparisons there and you say, okay, do I have access to this position in any of these representations? And then that there's a factor. It's like, okay, do I have a mechanical influence here or is this a low dependent issue?

Whatever works.

Yes.

OK, let's talk through this because this, I mean, it's not brand spanking new, you know, people. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. But we could call it the Lunar Squad, if you want. Is it Lunar?

Be in the comments. I think it's in the section directly below the post. I think it is right there.

Hang on. Let me offer you something really simple here. Okay. Box squat above pelvis above knee level. And then stagger her left foot forward.

There you go. So here's the cool thing. So you look across the gym, you see your deadlift guy moving away from the bar. You think, 'he's a right oblique.' And then you're looking at his foot contacts. He doesn't have medial foot contacts. So where do you think he is in this process? Is he in the early phase of the right oblique? Or is he going to be showing up in a later representation where he's getting pushed forward?

Then maybe you put them on too low a box.

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It's a lot aggressive.

OK. And if I really want to bias a person on early on one side, let's say I'm right side lying, I'm stepping forward with my left. And like, because if I just let them do what they want going back, would I go back with the lower body or in my head, I would go back with the shoulder first with the left shoulder so if I'm lying on my side I go forward with the left and then shoulder follows. On the going back, I know there's no back, but should I follow with the shoulder to go back up to the sideline because there would be what's happening on the downside it will start rolling.

I was thinking about what I see with soccer players—many times it's bowing in the legs or only bowing in the tibia. So is that basically the same thing, or does bowing of the tibia come before you see bowing of the whole leg, like the femur going out? With many players, I see kind of a valgus representation, but the tibia is bowed out. So it's probably proximal tibia ER.

Okay, hands down on the table. The hand is now a foot. I just anchored it to the ground. Got it?

Okay.

Now keep your arm in a straight line and raise it up in front of you.

Post your outlet. anterior outlet.

I'm saying that there are two spectrums. One is training for strength and hypertrophy, and on the other hand, there are movements where we train for pain-free movement, using breathing or walking, or going into specific movements with minimal weight to become pain-free or increase mobility. So how should we incorporate both of these things? For example, if I'm doing a deadlift, but at the same time I want to be pain-free, how should we balance these things?

No, I think she would have oriented under this circumstance. I think the right foot lead was the way to go first. You have to get the sacrum to square to the front. So first sacrum is facing the right. So we're looking at just the base of the sacrum. So the right base is forward, left base is back. You gave her the offset load in an attempt to capture the internally rotated position on the left side.

Right.