So we're back to Jordan's question about trying to get dorsiflexion on this kid. It's like, okay, you can yank and pull on that ankle all day long, but that muscle he's trying to influence does not want to change shape for a reason. And it's going to go, nope, not changing. Yank and pull all day long; it'll never change. Okay, so again, I can't change the expansion in that area. That's muscle behavior. Yeah, it also influences how much tension there would be in the connective tissues under that circumstance. So from a rate standpoint, that muscle is on right away, making the tissues high rate stiff too. Okay, all right. If that kid was doing a box jump, he jumps off the box and lands on the ground. The muscle is still concentrically oriented, but because there's more time to load the connective tissues, those connective tissues will elongate. That's a yield. So that's a change in the actual storage and release of energy in the connective tissues, which is a length change in the connective tissues. But the muscle orientation is exactly the same. It's still concentrically oriented under that circumstance. Because if it is concentrically oriented, my ankle would move more and I would reduce the tension on the connective tissues. I would distribute that force and it would dampen and it would land softly. Do you see the difference in the behavior of the muscle versus the connective tissues?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I teach them to look down a little bit at 45 degrees and to get the head through.

I see what you mean. So your feet and everything just. The reason being everything is facing forward, you're always going to be biased towards going forward. So no matter what you do, going side or back, you're facing forward all the time.

Well, I borrowed it from George Box, trust me. And you referenced him. You're much smarter than I ever will be.

Okay.

Where's the bow string? So the femur's gonna give you the representation of the bow, but she's got a bowstring that's gonna go straight down from the pelvis towards the foot to keep the IR inside of her base of support, right? She's gotta produce it somewhere, okay? So there's gonna be muscle activity that's gonna create the bowstring. Is there? So let me back up. If she swayed forward a little bit, do you think she's got a rectus strategy going on?

Okay, so I understand why the toe heel kind of drops you into that position.

And then my KPI, do you know when time is to switch is when we get a more symmetrical sense of capturing medial foot contact.

Yeah.

Gotcha.

Fast being relative.

Yeah.

And that would be incorrect.

Okay. Now put your left foot on the ground. Do the exact same thing. Does that push my medial heel into the ground on the left side? Do you think he's going to try to walk? Wow. Do you think he's going to try to walk?

OK. So if I am positioning you, my goal is to create a physical shape that allows me to put air in certain places and then allows me to exhale air out of certain places. So if I put your arms in a space, I'm promoting a shape inhaled position.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah. So connective tissues are rate producers by their stiffness or their yielding capabilities. So overcoming is a stiffer representation and yielding is the giving way, the storage of energy.

Okay. That person is laying on the table. The only thing touching on the left side of the body on the table under those circumstances is the left heel and a little bit of the central ox put. Okay? But you picked up her left leg and she lost a point of contact and then you brought the mass of her leg up over the pelvis and the pelvis fell back to the table. And that magnifies external rotation. On the left side. Gotcha. You see it? The arm does not weigh nearly as much as the leg does. And you measure the arm in a little bit different place under most circumstances unless you're sneaky and you know where to measure, and you know where to measure the external rotations and internal rotations differently, okay?

A lot of energy storage. And then it's like, okay, do I want to dampen that and emphasize the yield? Or do I want to turn it in the other direction? Take the stored energy and release it. You see what I'm saying?

So the head going forward is that compression. And so the degree of the compression would be relative to the degree of how far forward they have to push their head to finish.

Universal principle. Can't go backwards in time. If you're a thrower, you may want to pay attention. Good morning. Happy Friday. I have neuro coffee in hand and It is perfect. All right. What a great week. Looking forward to a great weekend. Got combatives training this weekend. So that's kind of exciting for me. Second round. So we're looking forward to that. I recently was on the QB Docs podcast with Drew and Dusty Keele. So outstanding quarterbacks in their own right. They do some great work with throwers and quarterbacks. And so we talked about my model and how that's influenced what they're doing. So they're starting to apply this stuff rather successfully as well. And so we covered some foundational stuff in regards to architects, but then we kind of deviated off into a rotation and some connected tissue behaviors. I think we did an hour, so this is just highlights from that hour, so make sure you go to the QB Docs podcast if you don't listen to the whole thing. Drew and I stayed on and we talked for another hour and 20 minutes, so we had a blast. I'll probably throw some highlights up maybe even next week from some of this stuff, because we covered some really interesting concepts. So I hope you enjoy this. If you have questions, or you would like to participate in a 15 minute free consultation, please go to askbillhartman at gmail.com. Drop me a question, put the 15 minute consult in the subject line so I don't delete you. And we'll take care of that at our earliest mutual convenience. So everybody have a great weekend, and I will see you guys next week.

And you referenced him. You definitely gave him the reference, but you're the one I heard of.

You know why? Because the center of gravity has to be over the foot to get force into the ground. Otherwise, I'm in early propulsion and I'm falling backwards.

Um, so the femur is going to give you the representation of the bow, right?

I guess my question then becomes... Can I change your wording just a little bit? It doesn't drop you there. It encourages the right side to push in that direction so the left side will go back, which is the term. I need to, where by moving right to left and a narrow, all I gotta do is, as you would say, drop you back into that position and then hold you there. With a wide, I say, I have to push you into that position.

Okay, which represents what motion, just so we're clear on this because we got people that do table tests that listen to these. So if you're doing a table test, what would be your table test to tell you, okay, it's time to make the left turn?

Yeah. So there's my oblique. I'm right there. Okay. So this elbow is going to start to drift in. This elbow is going to start to drift out. You've seen that a million times, right? Left side of the back is going to come off the bench. Pelvis is going to start tipping in a right oblique. Now you get to look at his hips, his knees, and his feet for the orientation, right?

Right. So, but that's why I do this. That's why I have this open discussion. It's because I know you and I could have the exact same patient and we'll approach it two different ways, and we will both be successful or we will both fail miserably. Okay? Or I say, when you get better. And that's not a judgment. That's just a fact. Because you'll see something different than I do. Your skills—when you touch somebody, when you physically touch somebody, I get no sensation from that. That's not entirely true because I have a superpower. I do know what that stuff feels like. But my point is, literally, it's like all those sensations that you're generating, all those thoughts that you're generating, they're yours. They're not mine. I'm offering things to help you find your way. I'm streamlining your process for you, but you still have to figure it out. You still have to do the work. You still have to have the perceptions.