Could you give a quick example of what you just described?

L5S1, L4, 5, right?

So where does this bend actually occur? Is that inside the tibia shock?

I think I remember it.

Why do you want them to move? So why not just hold a position? Why do you want them to move in that position? Why not just hold it statically?

But you see, I cannot touch people. I understand. So from an activity standpoint, would this be so you're trying to create some kind of overcoming on the left and you're trying to create some space on the right side? So, for example, this would be like a supine cross connect with the right foot on the wall. Then you're reaching with the left hand and you're staying left side heavy.

Well, if you're working with one of Manuel's weight lifters and you're working off percentages for the day, you're going to do so many cleans at 75%. How do you know what 75% is for the day? You work up to a training maximum. Every time you come into the gym, you warm up and work up to your training max, based on which you calculate the percentages for the day. So you're actually creating a representation of how tired they are. You monitor that over time and need data points over time. You can do the same thing with a vertical jump. If your boy comes in and has a 34-inch vertical today, that's your first measure. Next time he comes in and jumps 35 inches, that means he jumped better—either your training is stellar or he's better recovered. Then he comes in on a Tuesday after playing 17 hours on the black top yesterday and jumps 31 inches.

Yeah, so is that oblique axis shift something that comes really early in the progression?

Yeah, usually the horse on the sky.

No. I tend to not elevate the front foot. It's really awkward to do that. It's a lot easier when you start to bring that foot to the front. Then I would start to build that up a little bit more because you're already putting him in a fairly successful position by creating the staggered orientation. Okay. Again, his external rotations are out here. They're not in front. He doesn't have extra rotation in front of him. It's all out to the side. So let's just put him there where he's comfortable, where he can access a position and then just slowly work him back in. It's kind of like if you watch him squat and you put him in a wide stance squat, he squats better than when he's in a narrow stance. The reason he likes that is because that's where his external rotation is. And it's okay to put people there, with the understanding that if we're going to try to increase the relative motions, we'll slowly work that in. But that's why these dagger lunges work really well because they are turns, just subtle turns. If you try to force him into a position, everything becomes compensation, everything becomes that breath hold. If he's lifting heavy things, he's going to hold his breath. That's a given. Any time you load somebody like that, they're not going to be able to breathe normally and will hold their breath. Take that into consideration as well. But this is a guy that can do suitcase carries and sled drags. I would keep him in a sideways sled drag because that's where he's got the most range of motion available to you. You've got a lot of stuff that you can do in these shorter arcs of turn and then build it out.

So let's say you did something to recapture relative motions, but then you give an activity that's too advanced for that person, and then they start to lock up again and they're just not able to maintain with that answer for now.

So a compressed athlete that we know is lacking some rotation in areas where we want rotation would he ever perform an exercise with his foot flat? Would we want him to do that? If he knew he was compressed. Sure. Okay. So would that be interference stuff? Because in my mind, that's mid-medical.

Well, muscles are tuners. So what they do is they tune the connective tissues to behave a certain way. So if I contract a muscle, I'm actually affecting its connection to the connective tissues. All muscles connect through connective tissues. So it's the connective tissues that store and release the energy that we see demonstrated. Muscles by themselves are really not great at the velocity-based, force-based stuff. It's the storage and release of energy in the connective tissues, including your skeleton. So when we're talking about the heaviest loads possible, like a powerlifter or whatever, they actually use their skeleton to store and release energy. Okay, which is incredibly powerful because you think about like a bone would be like the stiffest possible rubber band, sure, versus like a skinny, thin rubber band. Like the skinny ones are fast. They snap. But if I can pull a really thick rubber band to the same distance as a skinny one and release that, that's a ton of energy. So the bones are kind of like that.

Right. So he hits the ground, but there's lead foot. Yeah. And that's where the early to max propulsion is going to come from, right? Right. So that energy travels up through him. And then you get to decide it's like, okay, how much of this are we allowing, right? Because you stay in email. It's like, if you restore too much relative motion, do you destroy the superpowers? Absolutely. That's entirely possible. Yeah, now it all and it's going to depend, so he's on a he's a major league pitcher so he's on a five day rotation, yeah about yeah yeah so the tip is on a five day okay um and so what you're going to find is here's what I would do is I would measure the bejesus out of them throughout that five day cycle because it's going to give you clues as to where and when you need to intervene to sort of give him a little bit more relative motion and then expect it to disappear as he reaches the point where he's going to perform at his maximum capabilities. And so what you're gonna see is you're gonna see this little cycle appear as to, okay. And you've measured these guys after they throw, I'm assuming, right? So you know how everything just kind of disappears.

Yeah. And that's why I've kind of taken the same approach on the IFASU page where I try to put information out there and just kind of see what discussion develops, because then you learn so much more. Absolutely.

Yeah, it's kind of like being called Johnny and it's just not my name.

Right. So think about the initial counter-neutated representation. So I should have that expansion at the base of the sacrum, which would bring the lumbar spine with it if we're just talking about the pelvis, or I would have that expansion where I would see dorsal rostral expansion under those circumstances. But then as the superficial strategies are applied, and I start to see that changed orientation, that's where I'm gonna start to see the anti-orientation show up in a narrow. Because they get it too. Again, it's just that the sequence is a little bit different.

And then the right side, we probably have a loss of some of the ER measures.

Yeah. So we're going to make an assumption that the velocity at which we're going down is going to be slower just because the amount of load makes the tissues differ. It's going to be harder to move, so we're going to move slower. All right, you release the weight. Everything starts to expand. I start to push up as aggressively as I can. So think about like if you had a cylinder with a water balloon in it, and I lift the cylinder really fast, the water balloon gets smashed down into the bottom of the cylinder and then it would come up. That's basically what the guts will do. So yes, you will accelerate the guts upward. And if I can lighten them, okay. So if I get them off the bottom of the pelvis enough, then they become weightless, right? And then less, I mean, it's literally it's less load that I actually have to live. That would be an ideal situation when we're talking about expressing the velocity. Okay. Some people can't do that. And then that's why we use like some of the elastic resistance stuff to try to teach them how to manage those, those issues.

When you drop down, at that point, the band's tension is right? So you get unloaded technically.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Like, how do you know that there's not a pre-regression?

Yeah.

Not that tall, like 5'10".

So she's a revision case. She tore the right side both times, but they took a contralateral patellar tendon graft for the revision case.

So I want to take it to somebody who's got a little bit different needs than a powerlifter, say like a pitcher. They're trying to produce a ton of propulsion in a very short time, but they need the time to yield. Correct. What if they've got so much, let's just call it extensor tone that's shoving them forward? They're late on concentric all over. And I pulled them back with some yielding strategies. Do they need to recapture some level of eccentric orientation as well?

So you're, yes, I think you're on the right track. Finish your statement. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt.

OK.

All right. So you have to think about some of the toe muscles. So you've got long flexors underneath the foot. And then you've got these short extensors on top of the foot. So if I was going to make a claw like that, that would be concentric orientation here, concentric orientation there, right? But they're different. So these are the long flexors here, short extensors there. You see it? So the muscles on the bottom of the foot are concentrically oriented. The muscles on top of the foot are concentrically oriented. You see that? So that means I have compression on the bottom of the foot and I have compression on top of the foot. Just like if I had compression on the front side of the body and compression on the backside of the body. So if I was squeezing you front to back, let's just say that you're an end game compensatory strategy, exhalation, everything is squeezing the bejesus out of you. This is what the foot would look like. So this is a foot that is trying to get to the end. They're trying to get to late propulsion, but the center of gravity is still back far enough that the heel stays on the ground. So normally in a late propulsive strategy, the heel would be off the ground and you would be up on the forefoot. Does that make sense? Okay. But if my heel stays down, the muscles that would lift the heel up can't lift the heel up because it's too heavy. So they grab the toes, which are lighter, and they pull the toes back. That's what you're looking at. So this is an easy way to say, literally, let me see your bare feet and they're standing up and you see toes that look like this on the ground, late propulsion.

Well, now that you brought it up, okay. So when we look at the archetypes and you look at the horizontal element of the helical angle of say a wide ISA individual, they're not going to be as great at reaching overhead as someone that has a more vertical helical angle. And so yeah, you kind of do play with that a little bit as far as what those extremity orientation is going to be like, what is going to be an optimal direction of force production. Um, you know, it's going to, it's going to predispose somebody to be better at certain things. And so yeah, you might play with those angles a little bit and then find your optimal. And you know, like I said, it's not an absolute by any stretch of the imagination. It's, it's a guide, right? It allows you to have a starting point. Many of the things that we talk about are just starting points, right? So when I talk about archetypes, it's like, how do you start somebody? How do you know where to begin? It's a guide. It directs you towards, okay, you're probably going to be better at this than you are at something else. Let's start with where you're most successful.

So go ahead and reach up and then slam it down as close as you can. There you go. And then what I want you to do is go ahead and turn around.