Yeah. Okay. So when you're doing the scapular mobilization, what are you doing?

Tell them to breathe it out.

I'm aware.

Yes, yeah.

Okay, you would need more of those types of activities versus trying to increase somebody's 1RM back squat. That would be more of a force-related behavior. You see the difference between the two? Yes.

Okay. Yeah. You could do that. What's the advantage? What's the advantage?

Is that what you said?

Perfect. There you go. Problem solved. Okay. So you got that. What are we going next?

Yeah. Okay. So that would be the description. That's what's going on—you have muscle activity creating a compressive strategy that pushes that side into an IR representation. IR being down and forward in that direction. So everything's pushing you this way, and you can't turn that way. Right. So you create upper thoracic expansion, which gives you lower cervical ER, which allows you to turn your head to the left in the lower cervical spine anyway. Got it.

Right. So it's not the arch that's the problem. It's the rate at which the center of gravity is moving forward, right?

And then what you should have felt by doing that is that you shifted weight towards your left hip at the same time. Did you feel that?

OK. So here you go. Let's fix this with a box squat. Oh, man. I tell you what. Andrew Green, I'm you. OK. because I think we talked about this in the past. I want to bring her back on the right side. I want her right heel to come down and I want her to capture the big toe with a box squat. What orientation could I give her to keep her back on that right hand side?

Yeah.

Okay. That makes sense. So something else that I see I feel like a lot of times is with narrow, they'll go forward and they'll get like a compensatory rotation from right to left. I don't know. So, I feel like a lot of times it'll create an IR compensatory force. which involves some series of twists from the right side and going down.

Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Some of that could just be the element of turn that you're seeing, right? So if I take this and you can just kind of see that it's twisted, but if I turn it like that, you're going to see a little more of like a broader representation of the rear foot. Okay. And so more than, than just like true bony width, um, I would lean in the direction that you're probably seeing an element of that.

Yep.

Thank you.

In less than two seconds. That's amazing. And it was deep. It was deep. Arguably still the best squat that's ever been performed in history. Okay. So let's go back to the squat thing. Okay. Um, okay. So. Again, because of your concentric bias, because of your extensive nature of training, you're going to have a great deal more of connective tissue stiffness through adaptation, like I said, and training, and then structural bias. And so for you to be able to utilize the energy that is stored in releasing connective tissues in most cases, you're probably going to be using strategies that would create the yield, which means that you need to deload to the box. Now there's a bunch of ways to tweak that as well. So you've seen like the, they put like the couch foam top of the box. Okay. So what the couch foam does is it prolongs the duration of the deceleration, which again adds more yield action to the exercise versus just sitting down in the box and expanding on the box. And so again, there's a whole bunch of strategies that you're utilizing here. But generally speaking, you're gonna be a guy that has to deload to the box because you need to create a yield somewhere typically where that's gonna be for you. It's like you're gonna use your skeleton a fair amount, right? And then the deload to the box is gonna, depending on how long you're there and loads and such, it's gonna determine like how you're gonna distribute that yield through the other connective tissues. Because if you were touching go, you would not yield very long at all. Therefore the amount of energy that you would store in your connected tissues would be reduced. Okay?

There you go. It's that simple. So you put the elbow in a more middle representation. And as soon as you set that up, you just changed the rotation through the elbow, didn't you? Yeah. That's how you make these decisions. Right. And now your programming becomes coherent with the goal. Yeah. You get it?

Okay. Let's reorient thought process for just a moment from Quadruped. Okay. Let's just say, so you're on the ground, all fours and the ground, the direction of the ground is now forward. Instead of being down, we're going to call it forward. Okay. And if I push into the ground and you feel that the yield in the dorsal rostral thorax, are you still going forward?

Hey, you want to walk in and go, 'I have one exercise that you need to do and we'll be ready to go.' Okay, but think about where they're trying to produce force in an ER position. You're going to be moving most of these people into a middle representation where they're going to produce more force. And then you're trying to give them the relative motion to get into the most advantageous position to produce force, right? You're going to move people towards middle representations as you start to align them into an internally rotated representation from proximal to distal. This is side stuff, right? Like if you were in the lower extremity, like you mentioned a split stance or a half kneeling representation, because that's an IR representation, right?

It's the only way.

Okay, so you see his left wrist is holding his shirt down, and then he is pulling his shirt in the opposite direction. You see the draping? Yes. So he's kind of pinning his arm against his left hip, right? Because his monkey pulled it down before he got into the room. You see it? You see how everything's just moving up into the right? Yes. Yeah. So he bumped into, he literally bumped into his hip and he had to turn it up and out to keep moving to the right. Gotcha. So I guess in the old school, they would say, man, he's got a really long left leg.

So I just wanted to go over how and why and whether it would be wiser to use low reaches to get expansion or am I getting that wrong?

Okay, so those tests are really, really helpful, but there's a cool little test that you can actually identify where the greatest tension in the nerve is. This. Ah, very good. Perfect. Okay, so but what I would say, do you know how to do it? Do the, uh, the, the neurodynamic test yourself on them? Do you know how to execute that test segmentally?

It's a feedback.

And so there's this effective duration on the connective tissue behavior. Yeah, okay. And so that's a context that I've been able to use is where it's like I used duration holding like internal rotation to then do a dynamic behavior that requires that I guess what, yeah, what I don't understand maybe so much is understanding location in context of how I might, um, use that variable to influence outcomes besides box squats. I use this all the time, but maybe I'm just thinking about it too theoretically and not.

Yep. So can you hold that picture up? Can you share that?

Boom. Okay. So I shift my pelvis way back behind my heels. I am pushing space out of the way to make room for me. Right? Yeah. Okay. All right. So there's my ER. Okay. What representation of the pelvis would I expect to see?