Yes. Yes.

Okay, lean back and take a step backwards.

But the world's gonna love looking at you, boss.

laterally. Yes. External rotation. Okay.

This is the scenario that you're actually looking at.

Help me, help me.

You understand? Yep.

Well, okay. So let's just say that you're using the exact same sequence on everybody and then there's that one time where it doesn't work. What are you gonna do?

Compression.

When I saw this picture, I thought this guy is so narrow. I thought he was pushed forward on the left and even went towards the right. The way I looked at that was that even though his left leg is oriented outward more, like his feet are turning more, his right foot is turned out more. It's turning out like he's rolling on that edge of the foot, kind of like what I see in squats or in lunges or extensions. Yeah, my athletes do this, and he's also got that side bend on the right.

To get down using both legs and then go over.

Two twenties on a bar. Yeah, okay.

Awesome. Extremely helpful.

Yeah.

OK. Do we have to put a barbell on her back?

Yeah.

Right.

What if I do that.

Well, at least he's not all over the place. Yeah, that's true. Does that help you? Yeah, okay. I think, yeah, I think you were on point, like, even before you asked the question. So that was good. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have neuro coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right, happy Friday. For those of you on the two week sprint, this is your recovery weekend. All right, quick housekeeping item, application for the Intensive 16 opened last night. We got a lot of applications overnight from the mentorship list. So the mentorship list, we're gonna let that run a little bit through the rest of the day to day, and then we're gonna open it up a little bit. It probably won't be open very long, so I suggest that if you wanna apply it to the Intensive, you do it as quickly as you can, but be thoughtful in your answers on the application, please. Digging into today's Q&A, this is with Ian. Ian has a great foundational question that everybody needs to watch because we're talking about the execution of how we coach breathing during activities. So the thing we want to remember is that we move via shape change. So the lever pulley system is great if you're dead, not if you're a living human being. So we want to think about shape change. And so when we're talking about the breathing, one of the influences of breathing is promoting the shape change. So it's not about maximal efforts. It's about the appropriate effort. It's about chasing the appropriate shape change to get the desired result. Many people are overshooting or undershooting. And so this Q&A is a great discussion about how and why we do certain things. So if you're confused about breathing or you're not getting the successes that you're expecting, then you're gonna wanna watch this. Thank you, Ian. Great question. If you would like to participate in a 15 minute consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com, askbillhartman at gmail.com. Put 15 minute consultation in the subject line so I don't delete it. We'll arrange that at our mutual convenience. Everybody have an outstanding weekend. Get your rest. Get some reading done. And go to the YouTube channel. Get yourself subscribed there so you can get all these videos. And I will see you next week.

Right. Okay. And so the amplified hip ER measures are probably just the spinal flexion. Yeah.

Yeah.

If we just cut down this whole process of like doing some strength work versus doing some mobility or breathing work, how should we use it in our workouts? Like if my goal is to gain strength, like doing a deadlift or maybe it's just my deadlift session. I know after that I'm going to be very stiff on the other morning or two days after that. So how should I use that breathing stuff before my deadlift session?

Yeah. Okay. Um, what I was doing was on with the, with the right foot lead, I was doing like an ipsilateral load helper hang under ER as she would go down the split squat and she responded really well to that. And then I was like, I'll just flip flop it so I can help drive the turn that way when I change the feet. And then, okay, I just needed to maybe do more of that than prior to progressing her into the other side.

Exactly. Exactly. So let your clients be the same way. They're in the same boat.

Again, I would try to have, I would have a reason to do that, but chances are you're going to have, like the more forward someone goes, whether they're deviated, you're gonna see all your measures start to drop off as early ranges because there's just no e-centric orientation available under those circumstances. But what you may see is like a distinguishing difference where, so let's just say that you've got a straight leg raise on the right that's 45 degrees and you got a straight leg raise on the left that's 20. That might be the thing that distinguishes your decision-making. And you can say, oh, okay, I know where this guy is, right? And now, because you've got a greater limitation on one side than the other, that one probably needs to be resolved first. Otherwise, you're just gonna keep pushing him in that direction.

Right.

OK.

I'm trying to balance whether I want a client to have a training effect but also regain motion. For example, the side plank row won't accomplish the motion regain aspect but would give them the training effect. So I'm considering how to balance both of those things.

Okay. So you could have said to me, 'Hang on, sorry. You could have said to me, I'm going to put her in a split squat because where in the split squat do I need to capture internal rotation at 90 degrees? Hey, how about that? Okay, but where do I need to start the split squat to make sure that it can get to that 90 degree without a compensatory strategy from the bottom? You're probably going to be a little too close to that 90. What if I put her at the top? Okay. I put at the top of the split squat. What would I need to make sure that she has to do with that foot thing again to make sure that she starts from a good position of ER and we can superimpose the IR?'

You better be slamming into the wall if you're going backwards.