In our first hour together, she said, 'I've never been able to take a full breath in.' And what I had her do was I just had her take deep exhales. Then she was like, 'Oh, and then...' So what I had her do, because this was before the holiday, is five minutes every morning: breathe in for four seconds, exhale for eight seconds, and just do that. I didn't want her to move. I didn't really know how to move her yet, but she said that her day started out a little better. So yeah, I guess I'll keep you posted on that.

Okay. What starting position do you think they're in?

Yeah. So you're teaching her how to produce that impulse at the turnaround as opposed to feeding it to her. I don't like to yank people out of a position because, number one, they're not producing the force. From a coordinate standpoint, it's not the same. It doesn't mean that I can't put her in that position and get her to feel how she's going to push into the ground. Otherwise I pull her off base. So she feels the impulse, she's pushing into the ground repeatedly, and then it's like, okay, do the exact same thing, but instead of me pulling on the band, you push yourself out of this now.

Yeah. There you go. Cool. So, what I need is something that will catch the air. It expands backwards and it slows the car down, right? Okay, so wouldn't it be really cool if I had that mechanism built into the backside of my body that I could slow down one side of my body so the other side could step forward a little bit faster?

And so if I steal that much turn and then I take that away from someone, I might compromise their ability to perform now up to a certain point where it does not interfere and I do increase force production. Now I have somebody that maybe I put another 15 yards on their top end throw or I add five miles per hour to their baseball pitch. Right up to that point, but going farther, now it becomes interference because I took something away that is essential for that performance. But the only way that you're ever going to determine that is to train somebody. And that makes people uncomfortable because people want to know what the answers are before you do something. And the reality is we're living in a complex situation here and I have to apply things carefully. I do experiments all the time and I have to find out what those results are. And then I determine what that process should be in hindsight. So I have to look back and I say, this was a good thing. This was not a good thing. So the good stuff that I do, I keep doing. The stuff that becomes interference, we eliminate. And that's typically what we end up, when we take on an athlete at IFAST, they go through that process because we have to learn who they are. It's not like people can walk in and they say, here's the 12 week right handed pitcher program.

I really appreciate it.

Oh man, that's right. All we're doing here is playing games with center of gravity, right? Maintaining a space to move into and producing force into the ground. So you have to have both strategies. Like under every circumstance, anybody that can move through space is creating external rotations and internal rotations. It just might not be at the joint.

Okay.

How about we just simplify this and say you know what put a couple pillows on a chair sit on the chair get up with your right foot. Okay. You can complicate this just a little bit and probably be a little bit more successful. Okay.

Not a problem, okay. A single leg stance to my mind requires that you have full hip range of motion because you would have to have an internally rotated femur, like if you're just standing on one leg, right? You would have to have an internally rotated femur. You'd have to be right over that leg. And then you'd also have to have the posterior expansion, like the yielding strategy so that you're not using something up the chain to create that. Okay, so I guess the first question is if we're looking to use a single leg stance exercise where you spend enough time on a leg and you get full hip extension. Are you, is that the requirement is that you have full hip range of motion or is that there are stipulations that.

Should I move my camera so you can see or?

This kind of goes from here to here.

It happened in late August. So it's been okay.

All right. Yeah, I see. Huge.

Okay. Does she yawn a lot?

For a pelvis jam through.

Yeah.

Yes.

I think that's a great point too, because that's across the board too, where so many coaches at all levels just think that it's a cookie-cutter. Hey, let me give you my program. But like we're talking—you versus Drew versus me—we all move different, right? And we need different things for the goals we set for ourselves, and at the end of the day, become a better picture or a better quarterback.

Yeah.

Where she feels the pressure. Get it? So, there's a quick test. You lay hands, right? So, if you think about like the prone or a half prone position, capture that medial knee position. She'll start to superimpose some IR on that. You'll probably get a reduction in the gracilis activity.

Yep.

To acquire a single leg stance without a compensatory strategy, you would need internal rotation into the ground because when you're standing upright on two legs, your bias is towards internal rotation at the very top. If you pick up one leg, you have to shift your center of gravity towards that foot, which means you would need that internal rotation available to do that. Otherwise you're going to use a compensation, which is going to turn it into an external rotation representation. If you've ever taught somebody a single leg RDL for the first time, they always externally rotate into that position. So you're going to need that, and keep in mind that as you take away foot contacts, you're losing a lot of relative motion in this circumstance. So you're creating what looks like a cantilevered position of the pelvis on a single post. You can't have a lot of relative motion available to you under those circumstances. So you would also need your... it's very strongly middle if you can execute it effectively.

That would be really helpful if we actually see what you're doing. Since you're the big demo now.

Again, it's going to look like an upward rotation by definition of old school scapular motion.

Awesome. No, no, no. You have a nervous system that is somewhat recovered. Okay. Sometimes they start stroke rehab too soon. Yeah, it's a problem. Think about it. The nervous system went through the worst shock it's ever experienced, and then the nervous system is not receptive to learning anything because it's trying to recover. They start rehab too soon thinking that, oh, we've got to get it started because the longer we wait. No, no, no. This is a duration problem. You're actually in a really good time here, okay? But he needs reps, reps, reps, like crazy reps. Okay.

Have a great day. Huge, huge question. Thank you for, thank you for asking that. Because that's what, this is where a lot of people, they think that more is better. No, better.

Nope.

Yeah, so right away, do you think you're measuring in some imaginary, like, straight plane? No, so they're already moved, right? The pelvis already moved and then you're gonna turn that hip to bring it up into your traditional measurement position. So you already moved the pelvis yourself when you brought them into position, you see it?

Right. And so from a coordinate standpoint, it's not the same. It doesn't mean that I can't put her in that position and get her to feel like how she's gonna, like she's gotta push into the ground. Otherwise I pull her off base, right? So she feels the impulse, she's pushing into the ground repeatedly. And then it's like, okay, do the exact same thing, but instead of me pulling on the band, you push yourself out of this now. It's like, it's like towing. You know what I mean? You've ever seen like the overspeed with rubber bands where people do towing and they think it makes people fast. They tend to put the brakes on those circumstances. And so it tends to not be a great strategy under most circumstances. And so this way though, she can feel the impulse.