Yeah.

Okay.

You have to pay attention to it. Yes.

Yeah. But you got to be careful with that. Like overspeed stuff, overspeed stuff is a little iffy.

Cool.

Well, let's distinguish between the two extremes first. So when we move through space, there are only two ways to do it based on a universal principle. As part of the universe, we have to behave as such. There are only two ways to move: through expansion and compression. We change shape to move. People look at levers and pulleys, which is fine for dead guys who don't move, but for living beings, we move through expansion and compression. I looked for a way to distinguish how someone moves and what to observe when examining historical representations. They touched on this but didn't distinguish all characteristics. Everyone has a physical structure—if you have a seven-foot-tall person, their structure differs. Everyone must behave based on that. Some people are better at squeezing themselves to hold positions against gravity, while others are better at expanding against gravity. I took the two extremes as representations: some are good squeezers who need compensatory breathing strategies. A squeeze is an exhale, so they must find a way to inhale. This represents the wide infertile individual, as their infertile angle stays wide because they compensate to breathe against a body that's better at squeezing. The other extreme is the narrow infertile individual—someone better at expanding but must figure out how to exhale, meaning they must find a way to squeeze. The infertile angle gives me a foundational representation of their bias—not that they can't breathe in or out, but they're biased toward one strategy. When distinguishing how compressed someone is, consider the strategies they'd need to use over time. Greater compression requires more muscle mass to create the squeeze, implying we'd recruit more superficial musculature for compression. Since superficial muscles move extremities, using them as part of a compensatory breathing strategy to maintain position means harder squeezing leads to more extremity motion loss, distinct based on how hard they squeeze.

It really changes everything.

Yes, sir.

Is this a gracilis?

That makes sense.

Yes. Right.

And again, they're just telling you by strategy. They're telling you they lost this space and have to create one. They lost the ability to internally rotate and have to create one. So you're just going to see this progressive increase, and you'll see it in a squat and in any time you take somebody that's closer to fatigue. You understand that they're compressing more and start to lose ER space. If they start to lose ER space, they don't have any space to superimpose the IR on. So now they still put force down into the ground, and that's where you get the orientations.

So I was wondering about single leg stances and like single leg, not asymmetrical. And I have two sort of questions that hopefully relate in some way. Number one is, when might that be a potential strategy with a client? Just like an extended single leg stance where they're either balancing or they're switching from one side to another.

Don't you're not pushing it forward. You're trying to lead with it back. You're trying to create an expansion. Right. We're trying to move the fluid volume as close to the ground as possible on the right side.

Relatively speaking, yes. And then would you, because you have to have some kind of interior expansion to superimpose the internal rotation on, right? Yes.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you. He coincidentally actually has left knee pain and he can't walk on his left. He limps over it.

Yeah.

Yeah. So she's going to have a lousy split squat. Okay. But you might be able to put her in a really wide stance box squat and that might be useful. You give her like a sumo style kettlebell deadlift. To start. Just to give her something to work on and to do, you're in a space where she does have access to that motion. And then you just got to progressively bring her in. But the way that you bring her in, Andrew, is thinking about the shape change through the axial skeleton. Compress the pelvis, you've got to compress the rib cage to bring the ISA into a position where she can truly get an exhale and get more normal diaphragm movement. You get enough of that movement. If this is exercise induced asthma, okay?

All the time.

And I'm really just looking for like a little bit of waiver at a minimum.

Okay, I was just thinking that I have a post-op ACL patient, and her ground contact time is really, really high. So we're still working on range of motion type stuff, but kind of thinking ahead of time just for her to increase that impulse.

Cool.

That would imply we're going to recruit more of the superficial musculature to provide that element of compression. Therefore, the superficial muscles are the ones that move your extremities. So if I'm using them as a component of a compensatory breathing strategy or a strategy that helps me maintain my position in space, the harder I squeeze, the more extremity motion you're going to lose. And you will lose it in a very distinct way based on how hard you have to squeeze. So the more you squeeze, the more motion you're going to lose.

Yes.

Yes.

Might be a gracilis, dude. Attached right to that medial plateau, right? And if the bowstring is tight enough, then it's going to reduce the amount of movement that you have available in that proximal aspect of the tibia. So whatever position the tibia is in, it's going to stay there. Because you've got an ER representation most likely in that proximal tibia. It's gonna start to turn inward. You're probably looking at where that transition is taking place, where she feels this pressure on the inside of the knee. It's probably gonna be a little bit distal to the attachment of gracilis, because again, it's gonna be right below that part. And so you're gonna get this differential like right through there. And so she puts a downward force on. And so that is where she's putting the IR. Like it's landing like right there.

Cause all you're doing is... It's fun to do shopping with you, Bill. Go on many more shopping sprees.

Very good. Awesome. Thanks, Bill.

All right, got interrupted there, dude. You will always lose that battle of my attention when she is that close to me. So, sorry. So single leg stance?

Oh, I see. I want to do like that. And then yeah, yeah, I see it. I see it. All right. All right. Helps. Helps a lot. Thank you.