Yes.

Yeah.

Okay. So what is it? What are they going to maintain?

Right.

Okay. We're going to make an assumption that there's no neurological disorders. Okay. Let's eliminate that. That's a different story. All right. In what pelvis shape do I need to push into the ground? I need an ER pelvis shape, right? Okay, so mutated sacrum, IR denominant, high pressure. I need an anti-republic outlet that can concentrically orient. You understand that?

Enough. Okay. to not to not overwhelm anything but enough to okay so and so here's like this is a real time coaching thing which is which is which is kind of nice. It's like we're just going to put them on their back in like a hook line position just to make life simple okay. And so, so when you think about the actual skill skeleton expanding during an inhalation we would expect everything to expand at the same time right. So the thorax is expanding because of the volume of air is increasing. That's pushing the abdominal contents down into the abdomen a little bit. So that's going to expand in a controlled manner. But if I have an acceleration of abdomen and no change in the thorax, it's like, I think it gets pretty clear as to where you got too much yield. Okay. So under that circumstance, you need to tune those connective tissues a little bit more effectively, which means that the emphasis is going to be on the sensation of posterior expansion.

Well, so when you're doing that activity, typically you are creating the compressive strategy on the other side. So you're correct, yes. Because you're inducing part of a turn, and so it would have to turn and open on the other side. It's kind of like you were talking about: if it's late on the right, is it early on the left kind of a thing? That's what you're trying to create. We're trying to restore the ability to turn on the helical axis.

But there's a problem with that sometimes is I can't capture that position. So it's much easier for me to go to the late representation, which is the elongated decompressed representation, because it's still ER and it still has less IR on it.

Pain scales are one of my pet peeves. Because it's usually a yes or no, right?

Okay. And then you got to put the kibosh on some of his lifting activities.

OK, so real quick. This is a pro baseball player with lots of years of experience who lacks internal rotation. I work with JP here and he's training them directly, but this pitcher lacks internal rotation. He has had Tommy John surgery.

Right. So I have to move that way, right? So I have to push into the ground here. That's going to take the outlet up. It's going to tip the outlet down into the left, isn't it?

Okay. So where your IR intersects, right? In regards to your vision, yeah, same kind of thing. So there's definitely stuff going on there.

Think about energy going upwards. Okay. So how do you put, how do you put tension, overcoming tension on connective tissues that were static prior to the pull? That means I have to go even harder to create the tension on the connective tissues to allow that because I don't have the expanded representation and then the compressed representation. I have to literally produce that within the structure itself. It's like, I have to actively contract a muscle to pull the connective tissues into an energy storing and then release it all at once. It's much more effortful to do so. And you can feel it. All you gotta do is pull something off the floor and do a squat. You go, oh, the squat was just much easier because you could store and release. It's this natural expansion compression, right? Now, if I have to increase the degree of effort to overcome the inertia and I'm a narrow ISA, okay. In what direction am I squeezing and pushing pressure inward? Ian, feel free to share downward, downward. I have to put pressure down against it so I can put pressure up against it. So I'm squeezing. So if the pressure downward is great, I am sticking that person into the ground for a longer period of time than I would prefer. That's the problem. So maybe their deadlift numbers go up, but the duration that is required for them to apply the force to actually make the weight room numbers go up, increases the duration of their application of force into the ground. I've just made somebody slower, right? Because I took them outside of where they apply internal rotation to the greatest degree in the shortest period of time. So it doesn't mean that you would never trap bar deadlift in a narrow stance. It just means you better pay attention to what you're doing and the desired outcome. If it's just chasing weight room numbers and you have no other performance measure to worry about, to your heart's content. But now think about some positioning, think about timing, right? Modulate the load to where they can lift in a reasonable timeframe, right? And you say, I'm keeping you on a time constraint, right? You ever do a top-down deadlift? Yes. Yeah. So you take them out of the rack, like you put the bar in the rack, you take them out of the rack, they start to deadlift from the top, they go down and they come back up. So it looks more like a squat type of behavior. Yeah. Right?

Where do you see the bump?

Come on. I've been up. It's like, come on.

So if you're reaching forward with your left arm, you would never do that at the same angle. I just want to make sure because it becomes less of a transition point between a pull down and a row by jargon. You're going to be closer to the flatter, the helical axis is different. This would be like the high oblique sit pull down, and this would be like the low oblique.

Okay. I mean, talk about great doctoring right there. It's like, every time I run the beach, my knee hurts. Okay. Don't run on the beach. Right. Step one. It hurts when I do this, doc. Yeah, don't do that. Problem solved.

And so for some people you probably have to reduce the demands of gravity right to get them ER space.

Let's talk about this because it's not a singular representation because it all has to do with where the center of gravity is and how far forward it goes.

Absolutely right. You see it? So again, it's like branding these people hypermobile probably isn't helpful. Right? You can appreciate the fact that the measures are magnified, but the reason why, like whatever hypermobility means, it just means that the direct measure, again, this is a structural reductionist kind of a viewpoint. It's like, oh, hypermobile, that means that the joint's moving too far. Is it really that the joint's moving too far? Or is it the combined representation of the spine, the pelvis orientation, and the hip joint is what's producing the ER? You see it? Yeah. So again, you have to appreciate that. Good morning. Happy Monday. I have neural coffee in hand and it is perfect. All right. Had a pretty solid weekend. Very exciting. Got the new, the intensive 19 notebooks came in over the weekend. So there you go. That's probably the first time that we've put the real intensive logo on anything. So that's kind of fun. Got to dig straight into day's Q&A, getting kind of busy this morning. So this is with Dante. And Dante's question pertained to understanding a little bit more about helical structure. And so we've talked about this helical structure quite a bit. In fact, I got a slide from the intensive one that's right there. And you may have actually heard that quote repeated by a couple of the people that were actually in the room at the intensive one. So we've always talked about this, this helical structure and we can look at this from the micro to the macro. Your DNA is helically oriented. The things that you're constructed out of your helically oriented, your total physical structure is a helical orientation. This is one of the reasons why I constructed the wide and the narrow. ISA archetypes is because of their helical structures being different, they will move differently. And so if we can understand their point A's a little bit more effectively, sort of like where they came from, and we can look at their point B's as to where they are, we can certainly deconstruct this process and allow them to restore relative motions as needed or raise their performance based on what their physical capabilities are, because these will be idiosyncratic based on physical structures, which is why we have people that are great swimmers. And we have some people that are great pole vaulters or whatever they might be because it all comes down to the physical structure. So thank you Dante for leading us in this direction. A very useful question. Everybody have an outstanding Monday and I will see you tomorrow.

So that's actually, I think it's the opposite of what I was thinking in my head. If the ilium is moving toward ER, how does that end up with the IR twist of like the distal tibia?

Okay.

So it's going to look like that, correct? All right, so I can take the foot and turn it like this so that I'm looking at the bottom of the foot.

That's one of the reasons why you change positions. That's one of the reasons why you might lay someone down to do an activity is because you're taking gravity out of the equation so they don't have to use as much motor output. But that doesn't guarantee that they will reduce the motor output sufficiently.

And then I guess. Is that what we're mainly concerned about when we talk about the connective tissue in that case? Or is that happening throughout the rest of the connective tissue, like at the knee or at the ankle?

Are you familiar with that? No. Okay. So you want to read up on explosive strength deficit. Okay. All right. But you can determine whether it's force related or the connective tissue behavior being the limiting factor by using those two different jumps. Because the dampening of the counter movement demands greater force production be applied to get the connective tissue to move so you can jump. So if you had those two jumps, so you do a counter movement jump and you do a hold and then jump. And if they're equal, then you're using the same strategy under both circumstances, which would bias you more towards the fact that you don't have great connective tissue behaviors. What would be the connective tissue behaviors?

You said left side rack carry what?

OK, gotcha. The latter thing always throws me a little bit.

OK. So we're in early. OK. What area are we looking at?