So think about what you can do here that still has an element of support. So if I take a really high box and I put your foot up on the high box, you're in a single leg position, you're sort of in it. I mean, it's a two-foot contact obviously, but from a positional standpoint, you're driving the internal rotation into the ground on the down leg. So what you may do here is you have a whole world of activities that you can apply here as a transition. So you can do your chops here. You can do lifts here. You can do presses. You can take your pick. If they've got the full excursion, you can do an overhead press in this position. So you're starting to teach them how to drive internal rotation into the ground, because that's what they're going to have to do to hold their position. Otherwise, when they pick up their foot, the pelvis is going to drop, you're going to see the turns that you probably don't want to see. And so you have to train them to maintain the compressed position, if you will, in the single leg stance so they can hold position.

So the first neck head area. So, right there.

Those are always nice.

And going off of that, let's say we have a female volleyball player who cannot produce great concentric orientation. Could I drive, like IR bias position with forceful exhalations to, because I'm in IR bias position and I'm creating the compression by purpose to create the more overcome and

Cause it gets air out.

That's not fair, okay? You made a change, you just now know what change you made. That might be favorable in certain circumstances. It just means that you didn't finish the job if relative motion is the goal.

Yeah.

The left hip.

No, never late, because late stiffens connective tissues. I want to move them towards early. Now we have to be really specific here, because it isn't just heels elevated—it is the foot on a ramp. I need the toes in line with the foot. If the metatarsal heads are on the ground and my heel is elevated, that is a late propulsive representation, which means I have immediately stiffened the connective tissues and created interference. That's why the ramps become so important. If I have somebody that's biased towards a late propulsive strategy—so they're late in that step of the gait cycle. They want to lift their heel off the ground and get on the balls of their feet—their low back is going to have compression on the posterior rib cage that looks like they're always getting shoved forward. They're at the grand canyon; they're sort of at the edge of the grand canyon. They're always looking over the edge. Those people, the easiest way to address the connective tissue properties is to move them all the way back to this early representation where the entire foot is on a ramp. You immediately give them the capacity to store energy in the connective tissues under those circumstances. Those that can produce high levels of force and maintain their ability to utilize connective tissue behavior—the storage and the release of energy—are the guys that are the best performers in the world. This is why the best jumpers in the world don't have 600 pounds.

There you go. So that's the first shape that you need to reacquire.

like toss some Eric's pads under there or something.

Yeah, but I mean, it's like, can you induce, can you directly apply extra rotation?

Right.

Do you see the delay? Yes, so the heel was the slow part. Now the first medial head is the slow part.

Yeah. Hopefully. Yeah. Hopefully this gets somewhere.

All right, hang on. So now we have to say, again, when you say forceful, yes, is it maximum force? Probably not, all right? Take a tube of toothpaste, okay? And I want you to squeeze it between your hands from the top. Where's the toothpaste go?

Yeah.

Um, so what, um, can you describe what's going on with the guts in that application?

Okay, that was a good guess because I could hear the question mark at the end. Okay, so I need to flip flop this, right? If I try to push the right hip forward faster and the left hip is already going forward faster, what's gonna happen?

Okay. So would you address the posterior lower thoracic compression before going from the ground up? Or could you do either just depending on how the patient responds?

Exactly. Exactly. Try that. See if you can capture it that way.

Yes. Can you directly apply external rotation?

And this is where, like, toe touch. You know, your toe touch single leg RDLs where they're just touching a toe behind them. So you're just progressively unweighting them into a single leg stance where they're increasing the amount of force that they're applying to the ground so they can learn how to hold position.

Okay.

So I would love, I would love some clarity in my life as well.

Up.

Interesting. Okay. Yeah. All right. All right. That's more than I expected to get. Thank you.

Perfect. Okay. So here's what I want you to think about. I did a video on this. I was hanging kettlebells off the side. I've used that as well, not so much for squats but more for like push press to get to work on the rebound. That's exactly what we're talking about when we're talking about the internal forces here. So when you've got the rubber band attached to the bar and then you're gonna move the bar, what I want you to think about is make the kettlebell the guts on the initial movement. So if I press up, it's kind of like you ever watch Bugs Bunny Roadrunner cartoons? The cliff breaks away and Wiley Coyote is standing there looking in the camera and his neck gets really long and then his head snaps down. Reverse gears. So I lift the load up, I'm pushing the bar up, but the kettlebell stays put and then the rubber band elongates and then the kettlebell comes. The guts are doing the same thing. So whatever that kettlebell does on that initial push, that's what the guts are doing. They're gonna push down on whatever they're able to push down on. So like we're talking about like the root of the mesentery where they're actually attached to the spine, they're actually gonna pull down on the spine or whatever guts can push down into the pelvic outlet, they're gonna push into the pelvic outlet. And so it's gonna create like that trampolining effect that you see externally in the rubber band and the kettlebell. The guts are doing the same thing.

If I need to push the right hip forward faster than the left hip, then you're just going to fall forward.

So some of that is going to depend on the individual. Some people are going to be better at accessing it from the ground up. Some people are going to be better. But the general representation is that if you change one of them, they all change to a degree. That's the goal. And that's why we use these representations. So again, my answer is, yes, that's what you do. It's like a gray, dirty answer. Number one, as long as you understand the representation that you have in front of you, it just becomes the experiment as to, okay, which one is more meaningful to this person? Which one do they have better access to? But I would encourage you to look at this from the axial skeletal position first because that's what controls the internal forces, which you have to manage no matter what you can create. You can create compensatory strategies that actually make people feel better, but do not restore the relative motions that you're after. If I give you a strong IR strategy, that's more forced into the ground, right? And that might actually alleviate some of the stress that people are feeling when they come in complaining of pain, because it distributes the force that they're using to somewhere else. And that feels good, right? Somebody walks in with like a left-sided low back pain, right? And they're using, let's just say that they're using like a left extended spine. And they come in and they say, it hurts right here. They point to their left low back and you go, oh, you're just driving a ton of IR there. Well, let's drive a ton of IR with a forward head. Cool. You just alleviated the need to use all the IR in one place. You just distributed it, which is kind of what we want to do in the first place, right? But it's still not good relative motion recapture, right? But you took the stress away and somebody goes, wow, Johnny, you're like the best ever. And then you're kicking yourself going, I know, but it didn't get what I wanted because I didn't get the ER effect. But it might provide you an opportunity then to access something that they were protecting themselves against. And now you go after that ER relative motion that you're going to need to create space to move in. Does that help you?