You?

Rolling Walker.

And at the same time, if we use the same position, if they exhale, I'm getting the compensatory exhalation and I'm getting the pump handle down. I'm not getting the thing I want, but if I inhale too much, I'm just going to extend and yeah, all right, and I'm not getting, yeah, perfect.

So you're probably doing some good stuff, just by getting her moving because it's actually helping her get some of the air out. People in this situation that are already full of air develop strategies that allow them to exhale a little bit more. So people that yawn a lot, it's not the fact that they're tired and sleepy. It's the fact that they yawn because what yawning does is it tops off your inhale. It creates a stretch inside of the rib cage. And then you get a little bit of a, like that and they get a little bit more air out and then they can breathe. And then they talk and they talk and they keep breathing in and they keep breathing in and they keep breathing in and they keep breathing in and they're talking and they talk like this. And eventually they just go like that.

Sometimes I feel like I'm pretty positive it's happening, but I don't necessarily see any pelvis moving when I bring them up to 90 degrees.

I hope not. I hope not. That would hurt.

OK. So if you have a late propulsive strategy on the left side and an early propulsive strategy on the right, that's what you're describing. So you have late on the left, early on the right. So far so good?

Absolutely. So, if you're already good at something and I continue to reinforce that, right? So again, as force production goes up, if you're really, really good at a deadlift and I continue to push the numbers up because somebody said you got to get stronger—which is a useless term in regards to performance because you can't measure strength during performance. You measure it in the weight room. It's a comparative weight room metric. It is not a measure of performance at all on any level because it's meaningless. But if I am already good at that and then I add to it, maybe I get a bump up in performance. But again, it's the same concept that we were just talking about. At some point in time to get better at something, I have to give up something else. And the way that happens is we start to recruit more and more muscle because I have to squeeze tighter and tighter. So again, the superficial musculature is the source of this, and this is where the range of motion gets stolen. But with a wide and infrasternal angle, because of the initial compensatory strategy to breathe in, there is a relative segmentation of how these strategies get layered on because an element of what I am trying to control is my center of gravity in space while I try to stay alive and breathe—which sounds really dramatic because it is. It's like you're literally going to end up sacrificing the ease at which you breathe in return for performance. But these strategies will layer on, so one of the first places that you're going to notice it with a wide infrasternal angle is the dorsal strategy, which is just the upper back. It actually comes from quadrupedal research, so I carried that over. But you're going to see this upper back compressor strategy and what that does is it steals shoulder external rotation. It will create an orientation of extra rotation, but it doesn't allow the relative motions that are required for something complex like a throw. A throw requires a very complex relationship of an expansion and a compressive strategy, but most of the throw because of the velocity that is required is mostly the external rotation because that's where velocity is demonstrated, right? And so one of the things I don't want to do, especially if you're a quarterback with a wide infrasternal angle, is again I want to raise the force production capabilities, but I don't want to extend the duration that is required for you to demonstrate those force production capabilities because the longer that force production takes place, the slower you throw. In the gym, you're stronger, but the velocity that you can produce because you're basically creating an interference. If velocity is demonstrated in external rotation and I extend the duration of internal rotation, I steal the duration of the external rotation. And again, there goes velocity.

Right.

Build it up on the left side. Build it up on the left side.

Yeah.

Well, okay, so aside from like the more dynamic kind of activities, when you're in the gym, like if you're doing strength training in the gym, what are your single leg activities?

Okay. Just hold your hands out in front of you. Like this. Kind of let your head relax a little bit. Perfect. Can everybody see that his shoulders are relatively on top of one another? We're going to say that he's perfectly on his side, even though he's not perfectly on his side. All I want you to do, Ivan, is slide your left arm forward just a little bit. Stop right there. Can everybody see that the left shoulder is now ahead of the right shoulder? Can everybody understand that the right side is actually stuck to the ground? It's not moving forward. It's moving slower than the top side. Ivan, get as heavy as you can into the floor on your right side. Like total mush. Your head's going to have to let go and you're going to have to get totally mushy. Feel where you're in contact with the ground on your right side. Take the next centimeter that's off the floor behind you, and push it onto the ground. Repeat that. On your right side. On your back, one centimeter above the floor, there is no physical contact with the floor, but I want you to touch that spot to the floor now. And then the next centimeter on the right side. And then the next centimeter on the right side. Your hand's going to start to slide back to where you started, but you're leading with the expansion on the right side of your rib cage. We're keeping the left shoulder ahead of the right shoulder as you roll back so we can enhance the expansion on the right side. This would be coupled with inhale. When you're doing this kind of a roll, you're just going to use quiet nasal breathing. We don't want muscle activity to interfere.

Yes. Okay. Good. I don't know why I just guessed. I have no idea. Well, it was a really good guess. You get full credit on the test. So there you go. So the tibia is going over the foot like this. Everything's going forward. The heel's still on the ground. So this is the slowest part. So this is where the delay strategy is at the foot. You see it? Because everything else is going forward. As the arch goes down, that's forward. You get it? You see it? It's going forward, but the heel's still grounded. When the heel comes back up and the tibia starts to go backwards towards ER, what's on the ground?

So he's walking.

So let's talk about this a little bit more because I think it's important. I think people are expecting the client athlete, whatever it might be, is I put you in the correct position, I get you to execute some, I superimpose some breath on top of it, and then they're expecting it to look perfect like right off the bat and you have to give people an opportunity to learn how to do this, right? So there's gonna be overshoots and there's gonna be undershoots and there's gonna be like, you know, you're gonna put an extremity kind of off a little bit. And this is why you have to understand the principles behind the activities that you're doing so you can make the adjustments in real time. Right, so if I put somebody in a position like let's say I've got your arms overhead, because I want to hold them, I want to hold the thorax in a position as you breathe. Right and let's just say the angle is off just a little bit right let's just say I got you I got your arms too high. Right. And that's going to pull you into your compensatory strategy. Well, I'm going to be able to see that in the breathing because they won't be able to change the shape that I'm looking for. Right. Let's just say that I'm trying to get somebody that trying to make them look more like a cylinder. Because they're really flat and I want to pop them back up into a cylinder. It's like, if I overshoot the extremity position, I have pushed you into the compensatory strategy. So positioning matters. But I can tweak that. All I have to do is run the experiment. I say, hey, bring your arms down about 10 degrees. And let's try that position. Cool. Okay. Maybe that's better. Maybe it's not. I don't know, but this is how you do stuff. Right. And then you're coaching the breathing simultaneously and you're tweaking this position until you start to see the right shape change, but it might take time and it takes practice because the people that you're working with, they don't understand what you understand. Right. You're trying to follow the instructions. They have no idea what is the good outcome. That's your job. Right? You gotta figure that part out. But again, this is a big deal. This is a big deal. So you have to become a great coach. I have to understand the positions, the principles behind the positions. I have to understand what an effective breath under this circumstance looks like. And then that's the shape change that I'm chasing. Sometimes you gotta lay hands on somebody to help them create the shape change, Colin, right? You gotta be able to manually apply the pressure to create the shape change. Sometimes it's just a matter of like, oh, you know what? I need to put you on your side to do this. Okay. But the idea is, is you've got to understand where relative motion lives. It's not at the extremes. Extreme, extreme, extreme, extreme. Bad idea. Bad idea.

That was a really good impression of her.

That's why the chess board is so valuable because the chess board will tell you because of the relationships of the measures. That's why when you have a coffee cup, like that bilateral ER that is symmetrical, that should not be symmetrical. That's why the coffee cup stand out because you go, man, that one just doesn't fit. And it's like, oh, wait a minute. That was movement on the table. When you get a really big ER measure, so it looks normal-ish or more, then you get almost no internal rotation. That's an orientation. There's no other way to do that. Relative motions are both... ER and IR exist at the same time when you have relative motion. There's no way that you can get what appears to be a normal measure of ER or a magnified measure of ER, okay? And no entrantation without everything moving in one piece.

Okay.

Yep.

but the velocity that you can produce because you're basically creating an interference. If velocity is demonstrated in external rotation and I extend the duration of intro rotation, I steal the duration of the extra rotation. And again, there goes velocity.

Right.

I like left, left knee is up on like a bench or box.

Chances are she's going to hold her breath. If she holds her breath, show over. Like I said, you're trying to recapture relative movement. You can't have her holding her breath. So if the box is too low, she's going to hold her breath, right? See, that's what I'm saying. It's like if you coordinate this thing the right way, it's like you've just simplified her life in regards to all of the homework that she's going to have to do. Now, no matter what I say, run the experiment and make sure it works first. Then you can get all cute and fancy if you need to. In most cases, you don't have to get too wild and crazy.

Like single leg squats, single leg deadlifts. Yeah, there's not a lot.

The toes. Okay. Where's the expansion?

Yeah. But no, I was saying like he, like he limps, like he has a hard time.

I need to put you on your side to do this. But the idea is, you've got to understand where relative motion lives. It's not at the extremes. Extreme, extreme, extreme, extreme. Bad idea. Bad idea.

Okay. Yeah. So, because they breathe in more than they breathe out. And then again, they just have to get really, really full to create the recoil to exhale, and then they can start over. And that's what the yawn is. They yawn, they sigh, they laugh. They laugh at the weirdest times.

So if I get ER to come back and I get no increase in IR, you have an orientation. I'm not doing it right.