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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Moving Conversations, a podcast for movement professionals, by

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<v Speaker 1>movement professionals. If you coach, train, or teach movement, plates

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<v Speaker 1>or fitness, then this podcast is for you. With more

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<v Speaker 1>than sixty years of experience and fitness and pilates. Your host,

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<v Speaker 1>Brian Ritchie and Norse Saint John explored to science of

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<v Speaker 1>human movement, diving deep into the backs, myths and common misconceptions,

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<v Speaker 1>hoping to spark thought and conversation about how we view

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<v Speaker 1>fitness and movement. Now let's jump into Moving Conversations and

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<v Speaker 1>welcome back to Moving Conversations and Brian Richie joining me

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<v Speaker 1>as always is Norse Saint John. Morning.

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<v Speaker 2>Nor How you doing very well? Brian. I'm just about

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<v Speaker 2>to head off to Raleigh, North Carolina to do a

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<v Speaker 2>little advanced movement principles for the upper body. It will

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<v Speaker 2>be hot, it will be sticky, but I'm looking forward

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<v Speaker 2>to That's a really nice group, great group of people,

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<v Speaker 2>a great studio, alec fortising at a little bit of

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<v Speaker 2>the East coast, a little moment on the East coast.

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<v Speaker 2>How about you? How's your weekend?

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<v Speaker 1>I'll the safe wrong timing to come to the East

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<v Speaker 1>Coast is all I'm saying yes, but you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>it's actually not going to be that bad. The heat

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<v Speaker 1>is going to supposedly dissipate. We had massive thunderstorms yesterday,

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<v Speaker 1>so hopefully they will calm things down a little bit.

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<v Speaker 1>My weekend was good. I spent the teaching. I was

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<v Speaker 1>at Serene Pilates in Vienna, Virginia, teaching Anatomy and three

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<v Speaker 1>dimensions to a bunch of new students, and it was

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of fun. It's always it's always interesting teaching

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<v Speaker 1>new students because you and I teach a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>advanced things and a lot of advanced students. So people

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<v Speaker 1>who have been teaching for a long time, so to

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<v Speaker 1>be around people who are just starting that there's in

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<v Speaker 1>their infancy in their career path to pilates, it's really

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<v Speaker 1>interesting to sort of see where they're at and go, huh, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>some people know more than you think, some people know

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<v Speaker 1>less than you think, and it's just an eye opening

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<v Speaker 1>experience to be reminded of that and say, look, we

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<v Speaker 1>all started somewhere.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, and just for any of you out there who

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<v Speaker 2>haven't done the anatom and three demand if you're any

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<v Speaker 2>kind of have any interest in anatomy really at all.

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<v Speaker 2>This program has absolutely changed how I see the body,

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<v Speaker 2>how I understand the body. I've taught it a billion times,

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<v Speaker 2>as says Brian, and building the muscles in clay on

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<v Speaker 2>a skeleton is like, oh, oh that goes there, Oh

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<v Speaker 2>that goes there. And I always say, it doesn't matter

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<v Speaker 2>whether you know it or not, even whether you can

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<v Speaker 2>remember the name or even the place, just the fact

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<v Speaker 2>that you have an internal like that tenesthetic sense of

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<v Speaker 2>the structure is just really great. So anyway, I'm so

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<v Speaker 2>glad you're teaching that, Brian, and I'm just super excited

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<v Speaker 2>that you're taking over that program and going to move

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<v Speaker 2>it forward because it really is so valuable for all

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<v Speaker 2>of us and the movement professions.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I think I told you the first time I

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<v Speaker 1>took the class, you forced me to take it. I

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<v Speaker 1>just I had walked in on one of your classes figuring, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>hang out and here in the back, and you basically said,

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<v Speaker 1>fit here and do it, yes, ma'am. And I did it.

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<v Speaker 1>And I did six years of anatomy at university. I

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<v Speaker 1>went all the way up as high as you can

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<v Speaker 1>pre med with all the other pre med students, and

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<v Speaker 1>this was the first class that I thought, oh my gosh,

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<v Speaker 1>I am learning so much more on such a deeper

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<v Speaker 1>level because most anatomy is taking off. It's the removal

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<v Speaker 1>of even doing cadaver work is the removal of this

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<v Speaker 1>is putting it on. So you start at the deepest

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<v Speaker 1>level and build your way out. And that was mind boggling,

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<v Speaker 1>which is why afterwards I said, I gotta do it.

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta teach this class. This is it just blew

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<v Speaker 1>me away. So I highly recommend it to anybody who

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<v Speaker 1>hasn't taken it. Take it, even if if you have

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<v Speaker 1>any interest at all in anatomy, any interest at all.

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<v Speaker 2>And very simple, like when you talk about the difference

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<v Speaker 2>and how I think of the differences because I've done

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of Cadavra work and you've done a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of Cadeva work as well. That's a destructive process, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's a little for me. It's a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>like the difference of demoing a room in your house,

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<v Speaker 2>if any you've ever done that, demo takes a day. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>you just go in there and you just slash, burn, cut,

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<v Speaker 2>slat whatever you have to do, right, throw the stuff

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<v Speaker 2>in the dumpster and you're done. With whatever you're doing.

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<v Speaker 2>Creating is the hard part, like having to make choices

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<v Speaker 2>and decide what does that go? Here? Does that go here?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that this shape or is that this shape? That's

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<v Speaker 2>where the learning happens because you have to make all

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<v Speaker 2>of those decisions with your hands, with your mind, with

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<v Speaker 2>your brain, with the whole thing. And that's that's just

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<v Speaker 2>that's a creative process as opposed to just tearing down.

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<v Speaker 2>And yeah, again, dissection is incredibly valuable, do not get

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<v Speaker 2>me wrong. Seeing a real body and what the real

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<v Speaker 2>things look like and you know, in a dead body

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<v Speaker 2>is incredibly valuable. But this this really put all the

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<v Speaker 2>work I did there in context and gave it structure

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<v Speaker 2>inside my brain that I can now use as my

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<v Speaker 2>kind internal roadmap when I'm problem solving or trying to

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<v Speaker 2>figure something out.

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<v Speaker 1>And that problem solving is kind of what we're going

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<v Speaker 1>to be talking about today in a great degree, because

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<v Speaker 1>when you understand the structure, where you understand what's going

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<v Speaker 1>on and how everything attaches Like I say, I've taken

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<v Speaker 1>so many different classes at university and you learn origin insertion,

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<v Speaker 1>but until you actually see it and build it and

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<v Speaker 1>see exactly oh it attaches on this part of the book.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh so it does this, So when the body's in motion,

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<v Speaker 1>it does this and that, and it, as I said

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<v Speaker 1>many times this weekend, no muscle works in true isolation.

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<v Speaker 1>There are lots of things helping it. There's so much happening.

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<v Speaker 1>And you and I were talking beforehand, and you brought

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<v Speaker 1>up a subject that keeps coming up in your you know,

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<v Speaker 1>advanced movement principles are muscular and balances, and I thought

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<v Speaker 1>this is a perfect opportunity for us to go a

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<v Speaker 1>little deeper into that and talk about, you know, some

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<v Speaker 1>of the more common ones, but also what do you

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<v Speaker 1>do about them and how do you deal with that?

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<v Speaker 2>I get this question all the time, And as you know,

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<v Speaker 2>both fitness and pilates have a ten see to be

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<v Speaker 2>bilaterally symmetrical, you know, like especially traditional pilates or traditional fitness,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, squats and lundons and things are done equally

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<v Speaker 2>on both sides, and a lot of things are done

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<v Speaker 2>with both arms or whatever. And one of the things

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<v Speaker 2>that I realized early on, and I'm sure you did

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<v Speaker 2>as well, is we all have a dominant side. We

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<v Speaker 2>all have a stronger right leg or a stronger left arm,

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<v Speaker 2>and it could be a little bit stronger, it could

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<v Speaker 2>be a lot stronger, depending on all kinds of things.

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<v Speaker 2>And changing that or even just trying to bring the

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<v Speaker 2>actually way more challenging than I thought it was. I

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<v Speaker 2>was a young teacher, you know, and some of that

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<v Speaker 2>goes back to how our brains develop, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, it's amazing when you watch people move. The last

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<v Speaker 1>client I had to today, she's a big time mover.

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<v Speaker 1>She's a plates instructor. She is a big time mover,

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<v Speaker 1>but she has some muskinner balances as well, and I

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<v Speaker 1>was having her do certain exercises and I was seeing,

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<v Speaker 1>oh wow, okay, there's you know, when you first see something,

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<v Speaker 1>a dog that hears a funny sound. It sort of huh.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, your head cocks to the side. You're like,

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<v Speaker 2>Something's off, something's different, right.

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<v Speaker 1>And especially for people who are beautiful movers, there are

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<v Speaker 1>some people out there who you could see their dysfunction

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<v Speaker 1>from across the street, you know, mile away. But when

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<v Speaker 1>it's someone who is a good mover, and some of

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<v Speaker 1>you are going to be working with dancers or athletes

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<v Speaker 1>or whatnot. It's a little harder to spot sometimes, so

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<v Speaker 1>you're you're sort of do I see that? Or am

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<v Speaker 1>I imagining it? So you have to sort of dig

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<v Speaker 1>in and you ask questions, and you you start start

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<v Speaker 1>piecing things together and go, oh, okay, that makes sense.

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<v Speaker 1>Then and you start, you know, piecing things together again

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<v Speaker 1>and go back to the anatomy, go back to motion,

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<v Speaker 1>and think, okay, how can we work on that? How

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<v Speaker 1>can we work on just one side of it, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>so that we're not going to be so bilateral. And

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<v Speaker 1>I think that that's a great challenge and a wonderful

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<v Speaker 1>thing that we get to do, but a lot more

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<v Speaker 1>challenging than I think people ever think it's going to be.

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<v Speaker 2>Things that I noticed. So I have a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>you know, little little children around me, great newss and

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<v Speaker 2>nephews and stuff of various different ages, most of them

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<v Speaker 2>on the younger side. And I've just had a really

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<v Speaker 2>enjoyable time. Many of you have kids, know this, watching

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<v Speaker 2>them develop, watching them learn how to crawl and then

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<v Speaker 2>I will never forget is watching one good friend of

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<v Speaker 2>mine's child when they were probably seven or eight months

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<v Speaker 2>something like that, and they're really starting to kind of

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<v Speaker 2>crawl and motivate themselves around the room on their belly.

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<v Speaker 2>And this child from eight seven, eight nine months somewhere

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<v Speaker 2>then the right hand would reach and then the left

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<v Speaker 2>hand would do a little bit of that. This was

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<v Speaker 2>from this was the beginning motor pattern for this child, right,

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<v Speaker 2>And I could see, oh, that right side of dominance

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<v Speaker 2>that moment. And that was just so interesting to me

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<v Speaker 2>because when I've worked with those dominance patterns and myself

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<v Speaker 2>or with my clients, it is that deeply wired that

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<v Speaker 2>one side is going to just be in charge and

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<v Speaker 2>the other side will do what it's told. And that

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<v Speaker 2>deep neurological wiring is I think, why it's so hard

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<v Speaker 2>to change. Yeah, you know, I think it's all in

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<v Speaker 2>sort of nervous system based that their nervous system just

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<v Speaker 2>goes right, right, right, right, left, right, left, right right.

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<v Speaker 2>That's just I think that's how it's built wired.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you think you want to go back to wiring,

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<v Speaker 1>I forget who it was. But somebody a long time ago,

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<v Speaker 1>probably in one of my university classes, said okay, cross

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<v Speaker 1>And I think it might have been a neurologist who

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<v Speaker 1>was talking, you know, lecturing for this class, and how

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<v Speaker 1>did that feel? And you can just see all everywhere weird.

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<v Speaker 1>Now do it with your legs, Yeah, everyone has one

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<v Speaker 1>really see it in clients as well as with myself.

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<v Speaker 1>One side is so natural and just sort of floats

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<v Speaker 1>over there, and the other side little stick here, doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of imbalance that occurs over a lifetime.

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<v Speaker 1>But your patterns that you do over and over and

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<v Speaker 1>over again do really set you on a path and

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<v Speaker 2>Can't reverse it at least like a lot of times,

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<v Speaker 2>my experience has been it's really hard. I've got a

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<v Speaker 2>the other side. But oftentimes just bringing it up some

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<v Speaker 2>just helps to balance those forces out. And so I

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<v Speaker 2>two of the upper body athletes that I worked with,

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<v Speaker 2>who was a discus thrower, and watching them like they

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<v Speaker 2>both had trained heavily one sided from young right from

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I knew them twenty years after they'd given

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<v Speaker 2>up those sports. But those imbalances were just profoundly still there.

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<v Speaker 2>That right side was bigger. All the muscles of the

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<v Speaker 2>were bigger on both of them. For a while, balanced

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<v Speaker 2>body had this thing called a rocking reformer, which reformer

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<v Speaker 2>fall to the right because literally the right side of

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<v Speaker 2>their body was that much heavier, wow, in this case

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<v Speaker 2>from their earlier activities. And clearly they were dominant the

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<v Speaker 2>right side anyway, which is why they they they you know,

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<v Speaker 2>through with that side. But it was just interesting to

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<v Speaker 1>Here and what you do regularly. You you talked about

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<v Speaker 1>sports that are very unilateral. Coming from Hawaii, I've worked

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<v Speaker 1>with UH surfers and for them, they have some of

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<v Speaker 1>the best best developed lats I've ever seen, because it's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot like the butterfly stroke. But yeah, great thorastic

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<v Speaker 1>extension because lying on the board they have to lift

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and they're.

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<v Speaker 1>Using both our simultaneously. It's not one after the other

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<v Speaker 1>for the most part to generate power. You see them

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<v Speaker 1>really a lot of times in both arms.

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<v Speaker 2>It really is almost butterflyish.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. A lot of them, not all, but a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of them will do that, especially as they're really powering

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<v Speaker 1>through and their lads are their their shoulders, their scapula,

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<v Speaker 1>everything seems to be fairly well balanced. And on the

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<v Speaker 1>other side, I had a client who was a professional bodybuilder.

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<v Speaker 1>She'd gotten her pro card, and I've probably told you

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<v Speaker 1>this story before. I was looking at her neck and

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<v Speaker 1>one side of her trapezius was a little larger than

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<v Speaker 1>the other, her right side, and you kept looking at that,

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<v Speaker 1>thinking that looks very odd, because it was. It was significant.

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<v Speaker 1>But she's very bilateral. You watch all the exercises she does,

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<v Speaker 1>and one day I said, I'm just going to watch

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<v Speaker 1>you work out, and literally followed her around, and I

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<v Speaker 1>realized that every time she did tricep work and pulled

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<v Speaker 1>down work and things, she did it on a certain

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<v Speaker 1>machine because she liked the way that the lights hit

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<v Speaker 1>her body in the mirror, and so she could appreciate

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<v Speaker 1>her form at this mirror really well, and so she

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<v Speaker 1>always cocked her head to the side throughout the whole god,

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<v Speaker 1>every repetition. And I'm watching this and I went, this

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<v Speaker 1>is it, and she said, what do you mean. I said,

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<v Speaker 1>try it on the other side of the machine. And

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<v Speaker 1>you could see she was uncomfortable because she had grooved

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<v Speaker 1>this again, she'd been at this for fifteen years or

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<v Speaker 1>so at this point, right, and the same thing over

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<v Speaker 1>and over and over, and she realized, Wow, something that subtle.

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<v Speaker 1>But again she's building muscle and her head is cocked

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<v Speaker 1>to the side the whole time observing herself. Created that imbalance,

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<v Speaker 1>and we sort of, Okay, now we have to sort

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<v Speaker 1>of see what we could do to balance that out,

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<v Speaker 1>because I'm not sure if we can undo fifteen years

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<v Speaker 1>on one side, but we did our best to try

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<v Speaker 1>and balance things out.

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<v Speaker 2>So, yeah, that's a great example of detective work right,

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<v Speaker 2>detective work right. And it's also great a great example

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<v Speaker 2>of what Eric Franklin says, which is practice doesn't make perfect,

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<v Speaker 2>practice makes permanent.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, whatever you do, whatever little things you do

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<v Speaker 2>habitually over time, fifteen years of that particular pattern does

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<v Speaker 2>something right. The repetition changes things. Wow.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I see it all the time working with clients.

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<v Speaker 1>I can often tell you if they work on a laptop,

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<v Speaker 1>or if they work with their monitors slightly to the

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<v Speaker 1>side on their desk, or you know, therapists, Okay, you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to cross your right handed, you cross your left,

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<v Speaker 1>your left leg over your right leg, you rotate to

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<v Speaker 1>this toward that leg, and you write on that thigh.

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<v Speaker 1>And so they have this curvature and this roundedness and

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<v Speaker 1>everything is twisted, you know, thorastically to the left. And

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<v Speaker 1>you watch them and you try and put them on

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<v Speaker 1>something that is unstable and it starts to turn. Literally

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<v Speaker 1>put them on things before where they're on a balanced

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<v Speaker 1>disc that's on a very you know, thin point, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>while holding onto something, and their whole body starts twisting

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<v Speaker 1>and they're like, what's happening? Well, where am I going? What?

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<v Speaker 1>And because they're not trying their bodies right wrist, but

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<v Speaker 1>that those patterns begin to take shape just by holding

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<v Speaker 1>onto some balance things, she's like, I'm turning? Why am

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<v Speaker 1>I turning? I was like, well, that's exactly yeah. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's funny to watch because it's like, all right, and

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<v Speaker 1>you can see they go what happened? I said? Okay?

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<v Speaker 1>And balance and you know those balanced discs are wonderful

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<v Speaker 1>that you put someone on that and all of a

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<v Speaker 1>sudden their feet will start twisting and they're like, I'm turning?

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<v Speaker 1>Why am I turning? I don't know why I'm turning.

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<v Speaker 2>Or you trying to have them say okay, so now

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<v Speaker 2>rotate to the right, like do the twist, like we

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<v Speaker 2>do these on roadchet of desks all the time. And

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<v Speaker 2>it's like once I was like, way, I can go

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<v Speaker 2>this way, and you try to go the other way,

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<v Speaker 2>They're like, they'll look at you and they can't. Actually

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<v Speaker 2>they keep trying to go, but they keep the same direction.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't even get in the opposite direction, ye, right,

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<v Speaker 2>because those things, again, those are those are built in.

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<v Speaker 2>Another situation that happens in terms of just creating in

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<v Speaker 2>balance is certainly habit motor controlled, you know, all the

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<v Speaker 2>development things, but also after an injury. So you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I think of a lot of my clients who've had

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<v Speaker 2>something like a serious knee surgery, ACL repair or something,

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<v Speaker 2>and so they've been number one, injured for a while

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<v Speaker 2>before the surgery, so probably limping or not putting as

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<v Speaker 2>much work on that leg. Then they have the surgery,

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<v Speaker 2>they're typically not doing a lot for a period of time,

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<v Speaker 2>and by the time you may get them after that

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<v Speaker 2>or years later, sometimes you will still see a deficit

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<v Speaker 2>from that surgery that could have been five years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>but that leg never quite caught up, and especially if

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<v Speaker 2>it wasn't the dominant leg before. If it was the

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<v Speaker 2>dominant leg before, I find you will sometimes catch up.

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<v Speaker 2>If it was never the dominant leg, It's like it

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<v Speaker 2>will just leg a little farther behind where it used to.

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<v Speaker 1>Be, and it could be. It's so significant that a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of times after when I get someone and they've

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<v Speaker 1>had a surgery, like you know, let's say their knee,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll literally measure right to left their quadrucep bulk because

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<v Speaker 1>that is the easiest way. And I've seen upwards of

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<v Speaker 1>multiple inches two to three inch differences between sides because

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<v Speaker 1>is it visible from the front, Yes, if you know

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<v Speaker 1>what you're looking for, you can see that one slightly smaller,

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<v Speaker 1>and you wouldn't think. You wouldn't think that many inches

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<v Speaker 1>it would be because it just looks because you're looking

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<v Speaker 1>at it from one angle, oftentimes from the front. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and yeah, that side looks a little smaller, and down

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<v Speaker 1>towards the knee is usually a little bit more narrow.

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<v Speaker 1>You can see it come to more of a point.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't have as much bulk. And then you do

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<v Speaker 1>the measurement, you know, you do exactly halfway up the

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<v Speaker 1>thigh to start with, and sometimes I'll do a quarter

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<v Speaker 1>away up the thigh as well to see if vassist mediatis,

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<v Speaker 1>that sort of thing, and you can definitely see a

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<v Speaker 1>huge different sometimes and they don't They don't even notice it.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't even notice it. I say, you don't notice

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<v Speaker 1>that your genes are tighter on one side than the other. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't even think about that, But yeah, I guess

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<v Speaker 1>they are. I said, Okay, this could be part of

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<v Speaker 1>the reason. So that's one assessment that I'll do for

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<v Speaker 1>that body part. You can do it for the upper

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<v Speaker 1>body as well. Biceps, triceps, you know, measure that bulk

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<v Speaker 1>as well, and sometimes you can spot it and think, oh, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we need to we need to work on all of this.

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<v Speaker 2>And one of the things that I do a lot

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<v Speaker 2>for the center of the body is look at the

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<v Speaker 2>erectrospin a in some any kind of prone exercise or

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<v Speaker 2>in our little standing motif that I work that we do,

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<v Speaker 2>or somebody's prone unless they're doing prone pulling straps on

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<v Speaker 2>the reformer or they're doing a swan somewhere, they're need

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<v Speaker 2>some kind of back extension work. And you look and

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<v Speaker 2>you'll see, like one side is much more developed than

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<v Speaker 2>the other. And so that's again upper body, lower body center.

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<v Speaker 2>All of them and one thing is all of them

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<v Speaker 2>can be consistent or you can have those diagonal patterns.

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<v Speaker 2>R right arm and left leg are the pattern. So

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<v Speaker 2>it's always looking at is it just one side, one limb,

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<v Speaker 2>one side or is it a cross body pattern? You know,

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<v Speaker 2>where are they in terms of those imbalances.

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<v Speaker 1>And sometimes you'll have the imbalance, especially with the spine

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<v Speaker 1>I find the erectrospina. You'll see one side might be

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<v Speaker 1>a significant amount of hypertrophy. When they're lying lying in

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<v Speaker 1>the prone position, you can feel on their back one

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<v Speaker 1>side is a lot higher. Now that side might actually

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<v Speaker 1>be weaker because that side might be locked up. That

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<v Speaker 1>may be where they'd had the pain for years. You

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<v Speaker 1>don't know that. We're not here to diagnose that, but

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<v Speaker 1>you can definitely see all right, there's definitely an imbalance

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<v Speaker 1>between the sides. One side is a lot larger than

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<v Speaker 1>the other, so either it's got to be stronger or

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<v Speaker 1>there's dysfunction there. So that's when the detective work can

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<v Speaker 1>say which side has been You know, did you have

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<v Speaker 1>a back injury? Which side did you and oftentimes I'll say,

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<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, and when they explain it, you say, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so we need to work on this side, We need

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<v Speaker 1>to stretch this side more, we need to work on

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<v Speaker 1>the other. And that's when you really do have to

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<v Speaker 1>sort of be very detective like. But truthfully, that's one

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<v Speaker 1>of the best ways you can do it. You just

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<v Speaker 1>put your hands on it and you'll feel one side.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely. If there's a difference, it's it's pretty obvious. Yeah, absolutely.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So now those are like all the many things that

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<v Speaker 2>come into one sidedness, all the many reasons. Now what

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<v Speaker 2>do you do? What strategies do you use in your

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<v Speaker 2>programming to work on that? So let's let's first talk

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<v Speaker 2>about kind of limb imbalances, okause I think they're a

421
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<v Speaker 2>little bit easier than core imbalances. So what where do

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<v Speaker 2>you go? How do you progress? Talk me through your strategies.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe it if first of all, I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>work a lot harder on the side that needs it.

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<v Speaker 1>So if let's say they've had their we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>say it's on their non dominant legs. So they've had

427
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<v Speaker 1>knee surgery or hip surgery on their left leg, its

428
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<v Speaker 1>their non dominant side and I see a difference in

429
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<v Speaker 1>quad bulk, I'm going to work that side probably three

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<v Speaker 1>times more than the other. And when I say that,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean unilateral work. So if they are already out

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<v Speaker 1>of pain and we don't have to do a lot

433
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<v Speaker 1>of those basic exercises, I like things like lunges and

434
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<v Speaker 1>step ups and all of that, but I may do

435
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<v Speaker 1>three sets on one side to one set on the

436
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<v Speaker 1>other to see if I can eliminate some of that.

437
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<v Speaker 1>I still want the other side to get strong, don't

438
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<v Speaker 1>get me wrong, but I will still focus on getting

439
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<v Speaker 1>that side to catch up if possible, if possible.

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<v Speaker 2>So more basically, more reps, more sets on the weaker side.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's also that's absolutely useful, and that might

442
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<v Speaker 1>be if they have a significant imbalance in this regard

443
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<v Speaker 1>of let's say strength. If I do a single legged

444
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<v Speaker 1>you know, leg press or a single legged squad or whatever,

445
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<v Speaker 1>and one side their dominant side or the side that's stronger,

446
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<v Speaker 1>let's say they're able to do, I'm just gonna round

447
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<v Speaker 1>up and say one hundred pounds on a leg press

448
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<v Speaker 1>type device on one side and the other side is

449
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<v Speaker 1>seventy five pounds or something. Well, truthfully, I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>try and max out the weaker side, but I'm not

451
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<v Speaker 1>going to necessarily max out the stronger side because I

452
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<v Speaker 1>don't want both of them getting stronger at the same time.

453
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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to keep that in balance going exactly

454
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<v Speaker 2>right at the same right, just keeping that in balance going,

455
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<v Speaker 2>but both sides getting stronger, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, But I will still challenge it. So if it's

457
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<v Speaker 1>max is that hundred pounds and that's what they're comfortable doing,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever number of repetitions I've decided, I'll keep them there

459
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<v Speaker 1>for a while because I don't want them to get weaker.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want them I don't want the other side

461
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<v Speaker 1>to be the limiting factor because then you'll see not

462
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<v Speaker 1>one side get stronger and the other get weaker. That's

463
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<v Speaker 1>that's not good. So I'd rather have no So I

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<v Speaker 1>keep that side at where it is, and then I

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<v Speaker 1>focus on the weaker side, and I, like I say,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll do at least two to one ratio a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of times three to one ratio to see if I

468
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<v Speaker 1>can catch up or at least get them closer to balance.

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<v Speaker 1>Quad bulk may never come back one hundred percent, especially

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<v Speaker 1>if it's in the non dominant side. But if I

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<v Speaker 1>can get the strength back at least so that they're

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<v Speaker 1>pushing equally on both sides, then okay, that can be

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<v Speaker 1>a huge game changer for how they function in life.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, so I think that's a that for me is

475
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<v Speaker 2>like the beginning point, right, is just working the others,

476
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<v Speaker 2>working the less active side or the less dominant side

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<v Speaker 2>or the weaker side more. And you know, in pilates,

478
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<v Speaker 2>this means working on single sided work, asymmetrical work, which

479
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<v Speaker 2>we don't always emphasize in pilates, but that's that's where

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<v Speaker 2>I go. Single egg footwork, single egg knee stretch, single

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<v Speaker 2>egg footwork on the chair, things like that. One other

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<v Speaker 2>thing that I've found, which I've also found to be

483
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<v Speaker 2>pretty useful is having them focus on the less active

484
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<v Speaker 2>side in all of their bilateral work. So just like, look,

485
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<v Speaker 2>so they're doing a squad or they're doing footwork on

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<v Speaker 2>the reformer with both legs, just think about the less

487
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<v Speaker 2>active side. Just think about the left side or the

488
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<v Speaker 2>right side, whichever one it is, and then keep focusing

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<v Speaker 2>on that. Just pay attention to that less active side.

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<v Speaker 2>I've found, like for things like feet and straps, where

491
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<v Speaker 2>a single like fet and straps are relatively advanced on

492
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<v Speaker 2>the reformer for someone who doesn't have a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>core stability, So I'm not necessarily going to do single

494
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<v Speaker 2>eg feet and straps, but I might say lead every

495
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<v Speaker 2>movement with your weaker leg, you know, so if you're

496
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<v Speaker 2>doing circles or whatever, just think left, think left, think left,

497
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<v Speaker 2>and they'll they'll find generally like, oh my god, that

498
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<v Speaker 2>leg is so much more tired, just from the mental

499
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<v Speaker 2>focus on it. So that's another technique that I use

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<v Speaker 2>a lot in terms of just trying to get that

501
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<v Speaker 2>balance going a little bit more.

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<v Speaker 1>And something that I noticed especially I do bilateral work.

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<v Speaker 1>If they're in a machine or something like that, they're

504
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<v Speaker 1>locked into position. Even on the reformer, a lot of

505
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<v Speaker 1>times they're going to be more locked into position that

506
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<v Speaker 1>if they're doing a free squad for instance, or getting

507
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<v Speaker 1>up out of a chair or something like that, where

508
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<v Speaker 1>their body they have to stabilize from the ground up,

509
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<v Speaker 1>and do they lean, do they shift their weight from

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<v Speaker 1>one side to the other, And I'll let them do

511
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<v Speaker 1>a couple of repetitions, because sometimes their body's just trying

512
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<v Speaker 1>to organize, so that can take a repetition or two.

513
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<v Speaker 1>But three, four or five reps. Those numbers, I start

514
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<v Speaker 1>watching and I'll put their awareness as to what I see.

515
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<v Speaker 1>So with my client this morning, when I saw that

516
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<v Speaker 1>there was a little imbalance in her hips, I would

517
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<v Speaker 1>saying I wanted her to focus more on that side

518
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<v Speaker 1>and put her attention into it. And again, she's a mover.

519
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<v Speaker 1>She understood exactly what I said. But sometimes it's as

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<v Speaker 1>much as I want you to think about pushing a

521
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<v Speaker 1>little harder with your left leg. It could be something

522
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<v Speaker 1>as simple as that. Yeah, and or can you see

523
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<v Speaker 1>your belt? A great thing to do is if they

524
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<v Speaker 1>can wear a belt, or if you have a belt

525
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<v Speaker 1>that you can put around them and make sure it's

526
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<v Speaker 1>even on both sides based on you know where their

527
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<v Speaker 1>hips are, and say, okay, I just want you to

528
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<v Speaker 1>watch this belt as you do this exercise and do

529
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<v Speaker 1>you see it tilting to one side? Wow? Yeah, Say okay,

530
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<v Speaker 1>let's keep it balanced. Let's try and keep that straight.

531
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<v Speaker 1>And what you're going to find is it's going to

532
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<v Speaker 1>reduce their range of motion. Because a lot of people

533
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<v Speaker 1>have it and have something in their head about I

534
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<v Speaker 1>need to do this to full range of motion, whatever

535
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<v Speaker 1>that is for the person I'm not saying right or wrong.

536
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<v Speaker 2>Yep.

537
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<v Speaker 1>They may have some preconceived notion. So I'll say go

538
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<v Speaker 1>half that, go half that. As soon as I see

539
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<v Speaker 1>that start to change, I say, okay, that's your limiting factor.

540
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<v Speaker 1>Let's stop there, yep, and let's do twenty reps. Let's

541
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:47.160
<v Speaker 1>try and groove this. And you put your focus on

542
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<v Speaker 1>the weaker side. And I find sometimes having that visual

543
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<v Speaker 1>because not everybody's kinesthetically aware, but having that visual can

544
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<v Speaker 1>actually make them say, oh I see that, I see that,

545
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<v Speaker 1>and that really helps, especially and you get into some

546
00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:03.559
<v Speaker 1>corese stuff and pelvic stuff and you know, hip stuff,

547
00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:05.920
<v Speaker 1>because you're going to see that belt line start to

548
00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:09.160
<v Speaker 1>sink one side to the other when they're doing certain exercise.

549
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<v Speaker 1>You'll be like, okay, get that straight, get that belt

550
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<v Speaker 1>line straight, come on now, or tucking your shirt and

551
00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:15.680
<v Speaker 1>you can see it at their belt line and their

552
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:18.359
<v Speaker 1>pats sort of thing, say I want that balanced, and

553
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<v Speaker 1>that can bring them aware visually, and sometimes that can

554
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<v Speaker 1>really make a world of difference.

555
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<v Speaker 2>So that brings us to kind of the second key principles.

556
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<v Speaker 1>Right.

557
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<v Speaker 2>First one is just do more on the weaker side.

558
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<v Speaker 2>But what you're talking about here is not just that

559
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<v Speaker 2>it is improving the movement pattern on the less active side. Right,

560
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<v Speaker 2>So that's that next level. Right, first thing is just

561
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<v Speaker 2>do more, because I think doing more is part of it,

562
00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:48.240
<v Speaker 2>for sure, But the other one is doing more better. Right, Yes,

563
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<v Speaker 2>just doing more but doing it better. And so for me,

564
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<v Speaker 2>one image that I often use there is the idea that, like,

565
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<v Speaker 2>you're too sides are two individuals. They're not twins. They're

566
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<v Speaker 2>not identical twins. Then maybe fraternal twins. So what I've

567
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<v Speaker 2>got somebody really has those imbalances. I said, rather than

568
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<v Speaker 2>thinking of this as the bad side, and this is

569
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<v Speaker 2>the good side, because that's almost always a language every

570
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<v Speaker 2>client will.

571
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<v Speaker 1>Show up with everyone.

572
00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:19.039
<v Speaker 2>I say, okay, so this is Louise and this is Alice.

573
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<v Speaker 2>These are my own particular right and lefts. And I say, now,

574
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<v Speaker 2>when I'm working on my right leg, which for me

575
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<v Speaker 2>is my dominant side, what does it need? Like just

576
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<v Speaker 2>ask the question, like what do I need to make

577
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:34.079
<v Speaker 2>this side work its best? It needs this, this, and this.

578
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<v Speaker 2>When I go to my weaker side, what almost everybody

579
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<v Speaker 2>does is like first they just get frustrated and angry,

580
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<v Speaker 2>like why doesn't it do what the other side does?

581
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:46.319
<v Speaker 2>Like there's all these really weird, not helpful psychological pieces. Right, well,

582
00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:49.000
<v Speaker 2>you're just stupid, like some parties going this side is

583
00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:50.920
<v Speaker 2>just stupid. Why isn't doing what it's supposed to do.

584
00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:52.000
<v Speaker 1>Why can't you do it?

585
00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:55.480
<v Speaker 2>It's like, okay, exactly, you idiot. Instead it's like, what

586
00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:58.640
<v Speaker 2>are you doing? What do you need to do this better?

587
00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:02.039
<v Speaker 2>And as an and as an educator, as a teacher,

588
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<v Speaker 2>I'm also looking at what do they need on that

589
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:08.519
<v Speaker 2>side to do that better? Because sometimes that dominance is

590
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<v Speaker 2>because they have more hip range of motion so they

591
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<v Speaker 2>can't control it as well. And maybe they have less

592
00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:16.240
<v Speaker 2>ankle range of motions so they can't go as deep

593
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<v Speaker 2>in that squat, so all their mechanics are different on

594
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<v Speaker 2>that leg, right, So it's not just the difference in more,

595
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<v Speaker 2>but also why if there is a why why is

596
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<v Speaker 2>that leg not working as hard? And if is there

597
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<v Speaker 2>something I can do to help it work harder, increase stability,

598
00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:35.799
<v Speaker 2>increase mobility, work on alignment, correct some other piece of

599
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<v Speaker 2>the situation.

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<v Speaker 1>And that in my brain comes down to the next

601
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<v Speaker 1>stage of sort of detectiveness, which is, okay, what exactly

602
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<v Speaker 1>is the imbalance? Because if we just say, let's say

603
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<v Speaker 1>we're working with the thigh, for instance. Well, a lot

604
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<v Speaker 1>of people say, well, it's obviously going to be, you know,

605
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<v Speaker 1>one side versus the other. Well maybe, but is it

606
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<v Speaker 1>the quadricep, is it a part of the quadricep, the

607
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<v Speaker 1>lateral or medial? Is it quadriceps versus hamstrings? Is it

608
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<v Speaker 1>the adductor versus the abductor. There's a lot of balance

609
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<v Speaker 1>that happens within that one limb, and sometimes one of

610
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<v Speaker 1>those is super strong, but another one is the weak link.

611
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<v Speaker 1>And unless you can sort of identify that and say, oh, wow, yeah,

612
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<v Speaker 1>you're actually not weak in your ab doctors, your glutes

613
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:33.559
<v Speaker 1>are actually fairly strong, but your adductors, man, they just are. Yeah,

614
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<v Speaker 1>they are not nearly strong enough exactly. So it's affecting

615
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<v Speaker 1>everything else. But if all you think about is I

616
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<v Speaker 1>need grouts, I need my groups to be stronger, well

617
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<v Speaker 1>that might be part of it. And at the beginning

618
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<v Speaker 1>it is just okay, we need gross strength. But down

619
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<v Speaker 1>the road you have to really sort of figure out, okay,

620
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<v Speaker 1>what else is necessary? What of those all those muscles,

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<v Speaker 1>which is the weakest link. Let's start focusing on that

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<v Speaker 1>one specific.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, So we've just gone from a gross general, do

624
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<v Speaker 2>more on the left leg, or do more on the

625
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:09.000
<v Speaker 2>left arm, or whatever it is to improve in the

626
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<v Speaker 2>movement pattern and identifying why that movement pattern is or

627
00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:15.200
<v Speaker 2>isn't doing what you wanted to do to that next

628
00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:19.400
<v Speaker 2>level of or that a deepening of that which part

629
00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.680
<v Speaker 2>of that area isn't working for you, right, and then

630
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.160
<v Speaker 2>trying to correct that as much as you can that

631
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:28.319
<v Speaker 2>precise imbalance. I mean, a classic thing I think of

632
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:30.599
<v Speaker 2>is a lot of the diagonal patterns that you're actually

633
00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:34.440
<v Speaker 2>stronger on your left quad and your right hamstring yep,

634
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:37.160
<v Speaker 2>right that there's oftentimes those kind of patterns or even

635
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:40.119
<v Speaker 2>more commonly, your right ab doctors and your left ad

636
00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:42.599
<v Speaker 2>doctors are dominant and your other two are like out

637
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:45.319
<v Speaker 2>to lunch. If there's a little hip imbalance or there's

638
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:48.519
<v Speaker 2>a little hip shift, or there's a pelvic rotation, any

639
00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:50.960
<v Speaker 2>of those things are going to create those kind of imbalances,

640
00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:54.079
<v Speaker 2>and those are more subtle right Like in that case, Okay,

641
00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:57.079
<v Speaker 2>I've got to really get your left ab doctors going

642
00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:00.319
<v Speaker 2>and your right ad doctor is going, for instance, and

643
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:03.119
<v Speaker 2>then working on like like not just more on one

644
00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:05.759
<v Speaker 2>leg because the left of the less size acting weaker

645
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:07.799
<v Speaker 2>not just more on the left, it's more of these

646
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:10.319
<v Speaker 2>on the left, more adductor work on the left, and

647
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:12.920
<v Speaker 2>more ad doctor work on the right. So that's again

648
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:16.559
<v Speaker 2>we're just like deepening those layers of understanding to try

649
00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:19.079
<v Speaker 2>to get as focused as we can. But in all

650
00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:21.920
<v Speaker 2>those circumstances, you need to do more of what isn't working.

651
00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:25.680
<v Speaker 1>Yep, absolutely, And I think those are some of the

652
00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:29.039
<v Speaker 1>things that people miss h And you said it perfectly.

653
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.440
<v Speaker 1>When you're looking at the lateral line. While that right

654
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:36.200
<v Speaker 1>gluteous medius may not be strong, but that often means

655
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:41.000
<v Speaker 1>that that left a adductor group is also not quite

656
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:44.880
<v Speaker 1>as strong. So but people don't see that side, so

657
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:46.759
<v Speaker 1>all they're doing is working on the gluteaus. Media is

658
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:49.359
<v Speaker 1>doing all the sideline work, stepping sideways, all of those

659
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:55.279
<v Speaker 1>type of exercises without addressing part B, Part B or

660
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:58.839
<v Speaker 1>even part C. It's not necessarily the primary, you know,

661
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:03.039
<v Speaker 1>limiting factor, but it's contributing to it, especially in walking,

662
00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:07.240
<v Speaker 1>in balance work, in stepping up you know, stairs, all

663
00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.599
<v Speaker 1>of those type of things, and people don't always put

664
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:12.800
<v Speaker 1>that together. So, like you said, if the quad on

665
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:14.920
<v Speaker 1>one side is strong, the hamstring on the other side

666
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:18.360
<v Speaker 1>may be well, reverse that and maybe focus on that

667
00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:22.800
<v Speaker 1>a little bit. And you're right, those diagonal patterns, when

668
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:26.360
<v Speaker 1>we see those, it's sort of ah okay. So if

669
00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:29.639
<v Speaker 1>you see one thing that's you know, short, you know,

670
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:33.159
<v Speaker 1>shortened up on one side and not really strong, see

671
00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:36.559
<v Speaker 1>if the other side, if there's something missing there too,

672
00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:38.639
<v Speaker 1>because that diagonal pattern might be it.

673
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:45.719
<v Speaker 2>And that gets us into a bit of my lower body.

674
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:48.920
<v Speaker 2>We've talked in many different things about assessing and understanding

675
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:51.920
<v Speaker 2>that this gets into the core a bit, because that's

676
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:56.559
<v Speaker 2>where you really see those diagonal patterns, yes, a lot, right,

677
00:34:56.719 --> 00:35:00.000
<v Speaker 2>just as you talked about your wonderful case example earlier

678
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:00.960
<v Speaker 2>of the rotation.

679
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:02.519
<v Speaker 1>Yep, you know.

680
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:05.599
<v Speaker 2>So if you are familiar with the bounce spider language

681
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.719
<v Speaker 2>on this, the anterior and post, your oblique slings, or

682
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:12.119
<v Speaker 2>the muscles that go from right shoulder to your left

683
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:14.119
<v Speaker 2>hip and your left shoulder to your right hip in

684
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:16.280
<v Speaker 2>the front and in the back, those are really what

685
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:20.639
<v Speaker 2>control and manage the rotation of the torso. And very

686
00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:24.199
<v Speaker 2>often just from daily life, from driving, from mousing, from

687
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:28.199
<v Speaker 2>your point being a therapist, from pitching, you get really

688
00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:30.320
<v Speaker 2>wound up in one sign and not in the other,

689
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:34.119
<v Speaker 2>and that creates different forces through the spine, different forces

690
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.159
<v Speaker 2>through the neck, different forces through the hips and everything

691
00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:40.719
<v Speaker 2>else down and up the chain, right, So that's that

692
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:42.559
<v Speaker 2>next piece is then how do you look at those

693
00:35:42.679 --> 00:35:45.519
<v Speaker 2>rotations and how do you balance out some of that

694
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:46.079
<v Speaker 2>in the core.

695
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.800
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so let's talk about the oblique slings because I

696
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:54.079
<v Speaker 1>think understanding those is very important. And I find the

697
00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:58.360
<v Speaker 1>posterior oblique sling is usually the weakest because often a

698
00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:01.880
<v Speaker 1>lot of spinal you know, rehabilitation work with people. So

699
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:05.000
<v Speaker 1>the glutes oftentimes are going to be one of the culprits.

700
00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:08.480
<v Speaker 1>They're not that strong, but it's the opposite lat So

701
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:10.639
<v Speaker 1>if it's my right glute that's not strong, and you

702
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:12.639
<v Speaker 1>can often see that again if you put them in

703
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:14.639
<v Speaker 1>a prone position, one side of their glute looks like

704
00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:16.840
<v Speaker 1>it's hypertrophed and the other side looks like it's kind

705
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:21.320
<v Speaker 1>of saggy. Oftentimes that me an indication, oh, I need

706
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:23.920
<v Speaker 1>to focus on that side a little bit more. But

707
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:26.360
<v Speaker 1>one other one of the way tin this thing, friend.

708
00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:29.239
<v Speaker 2>One other way I see that is when people stand up,

709
00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:33.719
<v Speaker 2>you'll see that the high perture feed glute, that glue

710
00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:36.840
<v Speaker 2>you'll fold that bottom of the butt is higher. Yeah,

711
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.039
<v Speaker 2>you see it prone, but you'll also just see it standing.

712
00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:41.400
<v Speaker 2>I just want to throw that out there. Carry on.

713
00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:46.880
<v Speaker 1>So when we're talking about that POSTERI oblique sling system,

714
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:48.599
<v Speaker 1>a lot of times what I'll do is I will

715
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:54.679
<v Speaker 1>want to again do more rotation work, shortening that side.

716
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:58.079
<v Speaker 1>So after I've already worked the glute, maybe I've done.

717
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:01.119
<v Speaker 1>And you can even do this through Britain Jin. If

718
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:03.159
<v Speaker 1>you get to the point where you're doing one legged bridging,

719
00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:05.320
<v Speaker 1>well guess what if you push down with the opposite

720
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:08.679
<v Speaker 1>arm into the ground, and I like to do it

721
00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:11.159
<v Speaker 1>with a bent elbow, so I'm pushing my elbow into

722
00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:11.519
<v Speaker 1>the ground.

723
00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:14.280
<v Speaker 2>I find that like your back of your whole upper

724
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:16.199
<v Speaker 2>arms in it. Yeah, I mean yeah.

725
00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:18.960
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people will push with their hand and

726
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:22.440
<v Speaker 1>that's okay, but I find that they start rounding their shoulder.

727
00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:23.320
<v Speaker 1>Yeah exactly.

728
00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:25.760
<v Speaker 2>If i'm hand the hand gets more pecky, and if

729
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:28.239
<v Speaker 2>I really push back, I can get more la laddie.

730
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:32.079
<v Speaker 1>Yeah exactly. And it's a little bit more of an

731
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:35.079
<v Speaker 1>isometric because the range of motion is quite small within

732
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:38.119
<v Speaker 1>the hip and you're really being isometric in the lad However,

733
00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:40.880
<v Speaker 1>it can begin to wake that area up a little bit,

734
00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:44.920
<v Speaker 1>and then once it's woken up, I can take them

735
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:48.679
<v Speaker 1>to doing some standing work, and I love doing standing work. Well,

736
00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:51.599
<v Speaker 1>I'll take them into a staggered stance where if it's

737
00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:55.199
<v Speaker 1>their right glute that's weak, I'll take the right leg back,

738
00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:58.000
<v Speaker 1>left leg forward, and I'll do a row with my

739
00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:00.519
<v Speaker 1>left arm so that every time I pull with my

740
00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:02.920
<v Speaker 1>lat guess what, my glute is also going to have

741
00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:06.400
<v Speaker 1>to stabilize on that side. And I'll add rotation on

742
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:10.559
<v Speaker 1>that side, adding more rotation because again we have a

743
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:13.239
<v Speaker 1>tendency to think of rotation being for the core, for

744
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:17.559
<v Speaker 1>the abs, and we do forward flection with rotation, but

745
00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:20.559
<v Speaker 1>we really want to do more rotation in an upright

746
00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:23.039
<v Speaker 1>position because if I have to open the refrigerator, if

747
00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:24.559
<v Speaker 1>I have to close the door, if I have to

748
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:26.719
<v Speaker 1>whatever I'm doing, I'm often going to be in a

749
00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:27.559
<v Speaker 1>standing position.

750
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:33.320
<v Speaker 2>Really my line down absolutely. Yeah.

751
00:38:33.119 --> 00:38:35.400
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So I like doing the unilateral work that way,

752
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:38.599
<v Speaker 1>and I will do two or three sets on that

753
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:41.239
<v Speaker 1>side versus one set on the other. And again it's

754
00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:44.280
<v Speaker 1>mainly for the core, so I'm not necessarily thinking about

755
00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:47.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm building my posterior shoulder girdle on that side. A

756
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:50.360
<v Speaker 1>lot of times it's more about the rotation and it's

757
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:52.719
<v Speaker 1>just grooved that rotation. And I'll do a lot of

758
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:55.920
<v Speaker 1>repetitions just to remind the body this is what I want.

759
00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:59.239
<v Speaker 1>So I might do twenty twenty five repetitions with a

760
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:04.159
<v Speaker 1>medium weight, not anything too heavy, and change from cables

761
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:10.360
<v Speaker 1>to springs to bands to everything, because every resistance is

762
00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:11.760
<v Speaker 1>going to feel a little bit different.

763
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:16.599
<v Speaker 2>And so I love that. I love absolutely how that works.

764
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:18.800
<v Speaker 2>One of the things that I focus on a lot

765
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:23.119
<v Speaker 2>with those imbalances like you is the posterious sling is

766
00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:28.000
<v Speaker 2>just thinking about that back shoulder to the back opposite glute,

767
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:31.440
<v Speaker 2>and I even work on that, just that imagery in

768
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:35.599
<v Speaker 2>any kind of oblique abdominal work. And kind of my

769
00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:38.280
<v Speaker 2>favorite way to do that is putting a small ball,

770
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:41.159
<v Speaker 2>small inflatable ball under the rib cage, support the head

771
00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:43.119
<v Speaker 2>with the hands, just you know, you're in a curl

772
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:44.840
<v Speaker 2>position and you're not all the way up, You're like

773
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:48.440
<v Speaker 2>halfway up into your curl, and take your rotations from there.

774
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:51.719
<v Speaker 2>And this is more about the lab but this will

775
00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:53.719
<v Speaker 2>also gets a little bit into the glute. But basically

776
00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:57.079
<v Speaker 2>it's like working on rotating, but instead of thinking of

777
00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.239
<v Speaker 2>front shoulder to front hip or front rib case to

778
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:03.840
<v Speaker 2>front hip opposite side, I think of that back shoulder

779
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.079
<v Speaker 2>to that back hip, and also think about really rotating

780
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:10.000
<v Speaker 2>from the spine and keeping it centered. And when I

781
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:12.639
<v Speaker 2>even just add that queuing in to any of my

782
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:16.000
<v Speaker 2>oblique work, number one, people tend to go a whole

783
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:18.840
<v Speaker 2>lot farther. Like they get more range because they're using

784
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:22.079
<v Speaker 2>more of the body. They wake up that back sling,

785
00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:24.320
<v Speaker 2>which is usually pretty sleepy in that position because you're

786
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:28.000
<v Speaker 2>slightly flexed. And it also really helps to keep the

787
00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:31.519
<v Speaker 2>toruso more centered over the pelvis. If you think of

788
00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:35.079
<v Speaker 2>most people when they do an oblique abdominal of some kind,

789
00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:39.519
<v Speaker 2>they really sidebend a lot. They tip back and forth

790
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:42.440
<v Speaker 2>and that's usually what you'll see. And this, especially with

791
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:44.639
<v Speaker 2>the ball, really helps them to have that rotation, be

792
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:48.599
<v Speaker 2>a little purer around that rotational component and getting that

793
00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:52.559
<v Speaker 2>back slang going. But I love the standing work. I

794
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:55.320
<v Speaker 2>think is really the most effective. Our version of that.

795
00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:57.920
<v Speaker 2>All the applaudes people would be like standing on the

796
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.679
<v Speaker 2>end of the trap table with the springs, same idea.

797
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:02.000
<v Speaker 2>We can do all that work.

798
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:05.159
<v Speaker 1>Yep, And you can even do it on the reformer,

799
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:08.280
<v Speaker 1>standing off the reformer to the side with a relatively

800
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:11.840
<v Speaker 1>light spring, or and do it that way as well,

801
00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:15.000
<v Speaker 1>because then it turns it into sort of a cable machine,

802
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:16.800
<v Speaker 1>which you're using the springs. Your range of motion is

803
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:18.719
<v Speaker 1>going to be not as great as let's say a

804
00:41:18.719 --> 00:41:22.079
<v Speaker 1>cable machine or a band. Just be aware it's going

805
00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:25.199
<v Speaker 1>to get hard faster. But it is another option that

806
00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:29.519
<v Speaker 1>you can use in the plot's world. I have something

807
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:31.920
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to bring up with you and a little

808
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:36.880
<v Speaker 1>sidebar here. Okay, talking about the postterial bleak sling. A

809
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:41.000
<v Speaker 1>long time ago, someone mentioned that doing opposite arm and

810
00:41:41.079 --> 00:41:44.880
<v Speaker 1>leg rays is really getting at the postterial bleak sling.

811
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:47.239
<v Speaker 1>So your quadruped, you're down on all fours, you lift

812
00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:51.760
<v Speaker 1>one leg and the opposite arm forward, and it made sense.

813
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.039
<v Speaker 1>But at the same time, you're really lengthening your lat

814
00:41:55.079 --> 00:42:00.719
<v Speaker 1>you're really not shortening your lad. And so I've had

815
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:04.159
<v Speaker 1>I've had many conversations and arguments here and something that

816
00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:06.960
<v Speaker 1>I'll sometimes do is instead of having them take the

817
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:08.719
<v Speaker 1>arm forward, I'll have them take it out to the

818
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:12.000
<v Speaker 1>side instead start getting a little bit more. I don't

819
00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:15.079
<v Speaker 1>have them rotate. And if they have one side that's weaker,

820
00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:17.360
<v Speaker 1>I'll just have them hold that side for five seconds.

821
00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:19.440
<v Speaker 1>The other side maybe hold for one one and a

822
00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:21.840
<v Speaker 1>half seconds, and just have them do a little longer

823
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:26.920
<v Speaker 1>isometric hold in that regard. And I kind of wanted

824
00:42:26.920 --> 00:42:29.920
<v Speaker 1>to hear what your thought was on that being the

825
00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:34.159
<v Speaker 1>posterterio oblique sling when the arm is going forward, when

826
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.400
<v Speaker 1>you're stretching out the lad and not necessarily contracting it

827
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:41.800
<v Speaker 1>into the opposite glute, what do you think? You know?

828
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:44.400
<v Speaker 2>I've had that thought many times.

829
00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:47.159
<v Speaker 1>You too, right, Okay, I'm not the only one, you know, And.

830
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:50.440
<v Speaker 2>I've kind of like walked around that conflict in my brain.

831
00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:52.199
<v Speaker 2>So well, you know, hey, you do that, you just

832
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:56.559
<v Speaker 2>like and you just zip around that little doubt that

833
00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:58.960
<v Speaker 2>shows up in your head. So yes, I have had

834
00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:10.400
<v Speaker 2>exactly the same moment. So let's think about that. One

835
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:13.760
<v Speaker 2>thing that I think about is as a general thing,

836
00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:17.639
<v Speaker 2>is that the slings are, uh, you know, the way

837
00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:19.599
<v Speaker 2>the way that I've kind of taken them from Diane

838
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:23.440
<v Speaker 2>Lee and expanded them slightly from my own purposes and

839
00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:27.000
<v Speaker 2>for our purposes a movement, the slings are are again

840
00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:29.800
<v Speaker 2>still metaphors for all the things that are involved in

841
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:34.800
<v Speaker 2>those moves, and I know when I'm going to lift

842
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:36.840
<v Speaker 2>up my let's say I'm in all fours and I'm

843
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:38.719
<v Speaker 2>doing an opstarm a leg reach or bird dog, whatever

844
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:40.159
<v Speaker 2>you want to call it, and I'm reaching my right

845
00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:42.840
<v Speaker 2>arm up and my left leg up. I am definitely

846
00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:46.280
<v Speaker 2>activating the back of my body from that right arm

847
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:51.679
<v Speaker 2>to the left hip. Right lat is maybe part of that.

848
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:56.320
<v Speaker 2>It may be contracting in an elongated state right because

849
00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:57.760
<v Speaker 2>it is elongated there.

850
00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:00.039
<v Speaker 1>But it also can be it can you know, can be.

851
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:04.119
<v Speaker 2>Active there anyway. And of course other things are working.

852
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:06.800
<v Speaker 2>Our retrospin a and you know, our postory deltoid, a

853
00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:08.599
<v Speaker 2>lot of other things are kind of in action there

854
00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:12.079
<v Speaker 2>m h. And so some of me just thinks, well,

855
00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:15.199
<v Speaker 2>it may not be exactly the muscles that we talk

856
00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:19.079
<v Speaker 2>about for the postteri obilique sling. But I also think

857
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:26.159
<v Speaker 2>think about swimmers, all right, because again you've worked on

858
00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:30.199
<v Speaker 2>with swimmers after a lot with swimmers, and their lats

859
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:33.440
<v Speaker 2>are gigantic, to your point with your surfers, right, their

860
00:44:33.519 --> 00:44:35.719
<v Speaker 2>lats are gigantic. And yes, a lot of it is

861
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:39.119
<v Speaker 2>that that stroke, that that crawl stroke or that butterfly stroke.

862
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:42.480
<v Speaker 2>Right arm forward and then you pulled back with the lat. Well,

863
00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:44.880
<v Speaker 2>there's a there's a there's a piece of that that

864
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:47.239
<v Speaker 2>that you know again comes up overhead and then comes

865
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:50.400
<v Speaker 2>back down, and so that that lat is in action.

866
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:55.079
<v Speaker 2>It's sort of eccentric concentric, eccentric concentric or right concentric eccentric,

867
00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:58.880
<v Speaker 2>eccentric concentric. And part of my feeling is that that

868
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:03.199
<v Speaker 2>works east centrically or eccentrically as well as concentrically.

869
00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:04.440
<v Speaker 1>Mm hmm.

870
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:06.079
<v Speaker 2>Maybe I don't know.

871
00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:10.760
<v Speaker 1>Thought, yeah, the gang, we're literally spitballing here. And the

872
00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:12.880
<v Speaker 1>only reason I bring this up is because this is

873
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:16.119
<v Speaker 1>something that Nora and I would do on a regular basis,

874
00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:18.599
<v Speaker 1>you know, throughout our whole careers. We'd sit there and say,

875
00:45:18.599 --> 00:45:21.360
<v Speaker 1>I've been thinking about this, and so this is something

876
00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:22.960
<v Speaker 1>that I never brought up with you, and I thought,

877
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:24.719
<v Speaker 1>you know what, this is a good opportunity since we're

878
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:28.559
<v Speaker 1>talking about this what I've told people, because I've had

879
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:31.639
<v Speaker 1>I've had students ask me this, as I say, think

880
00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:35.840
<v Speaker 1>of it as an anti rotation type of exercise. As

881
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:38.119
<v Speaker 1>soon as I lift my arm up on that side

882
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:41.880
<v Speaker 1>and the opposite leg, my body really wants my limbs

883
00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:44.920
<v Speaker 1>to go down. So I have to elevate that to

884
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:48.760
<v Speaker 1>prevent that rotation. So I say, so, technically, I'm working

885
00:45:48.800 --> 00:45:53.239
<v Speaker 1>those muscles of rotation on you know, the torso, the

886
00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:56.320
<v Speaker 1>upper torso on one side and the lower torso on

887
00:45:56.360 --> 00:46:00.599
<v Speaker 1>the other side, so it's more of an anti rotation

888
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:06.960
<v Speaker 1>static hold. And when I've explained that, I've gotten people thinking, oh, okay,

889
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:09.840
<v Speaker 1>now again, could I be making something up and pulling

890
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:11.400
<v Speaker 1>something out of somewhere odd out?

891
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:13.400
<v Speaker 2>However, if it works.

892
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:17.079
<v Speaker 1>Made sense in my brain. It made sense in my

893
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:19.840
<v Speaker 1>brain at the moment, and I just said okay, and

894
00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:23.400
<v Speaker 1>I played with that again. I also will teach that

895
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:25.480
<v Speaker 1>move with the arm out to the side because it

896
00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:29.360
<v Speaker 1>also challenges more of that rotation, so it adds to

897
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:34.280
<v Speaker 1>that de rotation factor. So these are just again I

898
00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:37.199
<v Speaker 1>wanted to throw that out there because we are talking

899
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:40.480
<v Speaker 1>about correcting those imbalances. So if you can have them

900
00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:42.760
<v Speaker 1>hold longer on one side when you're trying to get

901
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:46.119
<v Speaker 1>the posterial o blick sling, for instance, you can really

902
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:48.440
<v Speaker 1>sort of get that to wake up a little bit more.

903
00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:51.000
<v Speaker 1>So maybe a three to five second hold versus a

904
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:54.159
<v Speaker 1>one second hold on the other side. I find that

905
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:56.599
<v Speaker 1>that sometimes can just wake it up. And I think

906
00:46:56.599 --> 00:47:00.159
<v Speaker 1>for the core especially we're talking about the slings, we're

907
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:05.159
<v Speaker 1>not always talking about a hypertrophy situation or a string

908
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.719
<v Speaker 1>situation as much as it's a neurologic and a reprogramming

909
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:10.800
<v Speaker 1>and patterning situation.

910
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:15.800
<v Speaker 2>Exactly, an activation and coordination situation. Yeah, And what I

911
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:18.199
<v Speaker 2>like what you're just saying. I wanted to amplify that

912
00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:20.039
<v Speaker 2>just a little bit. One of the things that I

913
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:24.840
<v Speaker 2>do a lot is things like isometric holds for an

914
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:28.880
<v Speaker 2>area that's asleep. You know, whether it's a vassist mediallist

915
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:31.920
<v Speaker 2>contraction for the quadriceps, or in this case, it's like

916
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:35.039
<v Speaker 2>a rotation where you hold that rotation or an anti

917
00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:37.920
<v Speaker 2>rotation like you're doing, you know, being on an unstable

918
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.840
<v Speaker 2>surface for example, or what you're just talking about, and

919
00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:44.480
<v Speaker 2>just holding that and feeling what's working in that moment.

920
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:47.239
<v Speaker 2>And I do this, honestly, this all the time on

921
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:50.519
<v Speaker 2>myself with my particular imbalances. Is I just hang out

922
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:53.559
<v Speaker 2>on the side that doesn't do the job and try

923
00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:56.559
<v Speaker 2>to figure out, like, what isn't working, what this is

924
00:47:56.599 --> 00:47:58.239
<v Speaker 2>just from an internal perspective, but I do it as

925
00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:01.039
<v Speaker 2>a teacher as well, what's not working. What's it different

926
00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:04.400
<v Speaker 2>on that side? Can I get that energy moving through?

927
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:06.840
<v Speaker 2>Let's say for me it's my left biceps wacky and

928
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:09.280
<v Speaker 2>my left bicep attendant is always a little wacky, Like,

929
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:11.239
<v Speaker 2>can I get that energy move there? Can I hold

930
00:48:11.239 --> 00:48:14.559
<v Speaker 2>that and then find that scapuld replacement for example, and

931
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.519
<v Speaker 2>just find it and then move out of it and

932
00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:21.039
<v Speaker 2>then move back into it. So it's also that self

933
00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:24.559
<v Speaker 2>for me, self identification of where the differences are and

934
00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:28.719
<v Speaker 2>then again issymmetrically waking them up and then working them.

935
00:48:29.559 --> 00:48:32.480
<v Speaker 2>And that wake up and then work is another classic

936
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:34.800
<v Speaker 2>thing for all of this, because if if you've got

937
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:37.920
<v Speaker 2>a weak side, a particularly like with erectrospine, if you

938
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:40.960
<v Speaker 2>don't wake it up, it won't do the job. It

939
00:48:41.119 --> 00:48:43.400
<v Speaker 2>will never wake up on all these things will not

940
00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:45.760
<v Speaker 2>wake up on their own, It's been my experience. So

941
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:47.440
<v Speaker 2>you have to do something to give them a little

942
00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:50.320
<v Speaker 2>a little slap in the face to get them to

943
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.480
<v Speaker 2>actually pay attention. Then they'll start to participate in the move.

944
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:55.880
<v Speaker 2>But without a little wake up call, sometimes they don't

945
00:48:55.920 --> 00:48:57.440
<v Speaker 2>ever really wake up. They just don't.

946
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.239
<v Speaker 1>And I think this sorty goes on to the next

947
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:04.440
<v Speaker 1>point if for me, which is awareness. I want to

948
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:09.159
<v Speaker 1>make the client aware of what are you feeling. Let's

949
00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:12.840
<v Speaker 1>face it, our clients in general, and maybe some of

950
00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:16.840
<v Speaker 1>you even out there listening, aren't really aware of how

951
00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:20.119
<v Speaker 1>your body feels, what's working, what's not working. People sort

952
00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:23.000
<v Speaker 1>of sleep walk through life, and it's because they're just

953
00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:26.760
<v Speaker 1>moving unconsciously, which is fine. In a perfect world, we

954
00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:31.280
<v Speaker 1>would all move perfectly through an unconscious movement pattern. Unfortunately

955
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:35.239
<v Speaker 1>we're not all perfect, and that's okay. But to bring

956
00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:38.800
<v Speaker 1>someone's awareness to it, and you just said it yourself.

957
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:41.159
<v Speaker 1>When you hang out there, you're asking yourself what do

958
00:49:41.199 --> 00:49:44.920
<v Speaker 1>I feel? And sometimes you can do it through body sense,

959
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:46.960
<v Speaker 1>where you say, can you feel this with this arm?

960
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:49.480
<v Speaker 1>How about the here? You know, put your hands on

961
00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:51.880
<v Speaker 1>both hip bones and do this movement. Do you see

962
00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:54.760
<v Speaker 1>how one's not working the same as the other? Oh? Yeah,

963
00:49:54.760 --> 00:49:57.119
<v Speaker 1>I feel that? Or can you feel how one side

964
00:49:57.159 --> 00:50:00.400
<v Speaker 1>of your erectors just bulges up really big to the

965
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:04.400
<v Speaker 1>other side. When you can do that and give them

966
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:08.000
<v Speaker 1>that awareness, suddenly you're giving them the responsibility. So you

967
00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:10.400
<v Speaker 1>can give them homework and you can say, Okay, we're

968
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:11.800
<v Speaker 1>going to work on this, and you're gonna do this

969
00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:14.400
<v Speaker 1>for one minute a day. Don't give them too much

970
00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:17.800
<v Speaker 1>because obviously they won't do it. But by making them

971
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:20.239
<v Speaker 1>aware and putting them into the respons giving them that

972
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.679
<v Speaker 1>responsibility and so that they're taking an active part in

973
00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:29.079
<v Speaker 1>their healing, their recovery, or they're you know, trying to

974
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:32.679
<v Speaker 1>lessen the imbalances. I'm not going to say eliminate, but

975
00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:36.119
<v Speaker 1>lessen the imbalances to hopefully get them out of, you know,

976
00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:39.920
<v Speaker 1>some dysfunction. I think that's valuable to give them that.

977
00:50:41.639 --> 00:50:43.639
<v Speaker 2>It's critical And to your point earlier about the belt,

978
00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:45.840
<v Speaker 2>it's like, if they if they can't feel it internally,

979
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:48.880
<v Speaker 2>can they see it visually? Can they you know, can

980
00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:50.679
<v Speaker 2>you put them on a roll or where they feel

981
00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:53.119
<v Speaker 2>like they fall over to the right or it's harder

982
00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:56.519
<v Speaker 2>to balance on their left, like enhance their proper reception

983
00:50:56.719 --> 00:51:01.800
<v Speaker 2>through vision, through internal sensation, you're putting them on unstable surfaces,

984
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:06.440
<v Speaker 2>changing the pressure tactile with your hands or their hands,

985
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:09.119
<v Speaker 2>like all the different ways that we've talked about another

986
00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:13.280
<v Speaker 2>podcasts about helping them to feel it. That's the key

987
00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:16.360
<v Speaker 2>thing because if they can be aware that their left

988
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:18.559
<v Speaker 2>arm is not doing the same thing as their right arm,

989
00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:22.280
<v Speaker 2>for example, then then if they're aware of that more

990
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:24.480
<v Speaker 2>of the day, then they can take different choices of

991
00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:27.280
<v Speaker 2>how they pick that thing up, how they you know,

992
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.320
<v Speaker 2>maybe they always lean on their right arm, right, maybe

993
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:32.440
<v Speaker 2>they start leaning on their left arm. Or to your point,

994
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:34.440
<v Speaker 2>they cross their arms one way, what if they cross

995
00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:35.599
<v Speaker 2>their arms the other way.

996
00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:37.039
<v Speaker 1>If they always mouse.

997
00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:38.639
<v Speaker 2>With their right hand, what if they mouse with their

998
00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:41.840
<v Speaker 2>left hand right. So, just finding those ways to bring

999
00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:45.519
<v Speaker 2>that awareness to their daily activities, because that's you know,

1000
00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:49.159
<v Speaker 2>when you change habit, you change bodies. You can change

1001
00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:52.400
<v Speaker 2>what they do every day, you can change everything. If

1002
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.280
<v Speaker 2>you don't change what they do every day and you

1003
00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:56.639
<v Speaker 2>only work with them that one or two hours a week,

1004
00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:00.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, you make some change, but not the same

1005
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:02.320
<v Speaker 2>that you will if they're paying attention more of the time.

1006
00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:05.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I find with that too. You got to make

1007
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:09.599
<v Speaker 1>them care because yeah, it has to be meaningful. It

1008
00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:13.440
<v Speaker 1>has to be meaningful. That's a great way to say it. Yeah.

1009
00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:15.760
<v Speaker 1>And we may see the imbalance and we may think,

1010
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:18.719
<v Speaker 1>oh my gosh, that's the reason that X, Y and

1011
00:52:18.800 --> 00:52:21.000
<v Speaker 1>Z is happening, and that's the reason for this and this,

1012
00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:24.280
<v Speaker 1>and we can see it. But unless they buy in

1013
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:28.159
<v Speaker 1>and they believe it and they see that there's value

1014
00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:30.719
<v Speaker 1>in doing this thing that I don't know why I'm

1015
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:33.960
<v Speaker 1>even doing this, but they say it's okay. One of

1016
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:36.000
<v Speaker 1>my clients this morning was talking to me about the

1017
00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:39.239
<v Speaker 1>physical therapists. She will email the physical therapists, I want

1018
00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:40.679
<v Speaker 1>you to do this and this at home, and she's

1019
00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:43.320
<v Speaker 1>thinking that has nothing to do with this, and she'll

1020
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:45.719
<v Speaker 1>do it and she says it helps. I said, exactly,

1021
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:50.800
<v Speaker 1>it's okay. Just do what they say sometimes and you

1022
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:52.960
<v Speaker 1>don't always have to buy in. But now she's worked

1023
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:57.639
<v Speaker 1>with this physical therapist for years and trust them knows okay,

1024
00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:00.800
<v Speaker 1>they say to do it, I'm going to do it. Yeah,

1025
00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:04.280
<v Speaker 1>And we have to find that same level of trust

1026
00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:06.400
<v Speaker 1>with the client that Okay, this is going to help

1027
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:09.039
<v Speaker 1>and it's not going to take all day. It's not

1028
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:10.360
<v Speaker 1>going to it's sort of take you a minute or

1029
00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:14.480
<v Speaker 1>two a day. But once you sort of establish that trust,

1030
00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:15.880
<v Speaker 1>then you can say, okay, now I want you to

1031
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:18.280
<v Speaker 1>do this, and they're just going to do it without

1032
00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:22.360
<v Speaker 1>questioning everything. Give them a reason. But they may not be,

1033
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:26.199
<v Speaker 1>as you know, doubtful or I don't know why I'm

1034
00:53:26.239 --> 00:53:29.119
<v Speaker 1>doing this silly thing, so you got to make it meaningful,

1035
00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:31.519
<v Speaker 1>and then when they start seeing a little bit of progress,

1036
00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:34.320
<v Speaker 1>then they will buy in even more. That trust begins

1037
00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:35.920
<v Speaker 1>to build when they have success.

1038
00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:42.119
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, so this was a this was a wide ranger.

1039
00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:43.840
<v Speaker 2>There's a lot of things in here and a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of I think pretty practical things because again, we work

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<v Speaker 2>with these imbalances absolutely all the time, and you know

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<v Speaker 2>that first step is just do more. Just do more

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<v Speaker 2>on the week side, figure out whether what the differences

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<v Speaker 2>are in the movement patterns, like why is that side weaker?

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe it's an old injury, maybe it's whatever it is

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<v Speaker 2>an activity they do. Try to really identify where that

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<v Speaker 2>imbalance is coming from. Mobility, lack of mobility, lack of stability,

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<v Speaker 2>lack of strength, what's it doing? Hone in really really

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<v Speaker 2>be precise, and then awareness and buy in for the client.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, those are all all pieces that we want

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<v Speaker 2>to bring together whenever we're working on in balances.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and these are all practical. These are things that

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<v Speaker 1>you can do with your clients because you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>need to. You're going to need to or even on

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<v Speaker 1>yourself if you experience we all have imbalances. Let's face it,

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<v Speaker 1>we all have imbalances. I've been working on mine for years,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm sure you've been working on yours. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we all have. I mean we're not twelve anymore. Bodies

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<v Speaker 1>are sort of yeah, we're human, human the patterns. But

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<v Speaker 1>when you can do that and make yourself you've been

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<v Speaker 1>aware of it, you can start to make some significant

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<v Speaker 1>change and some growth. And so hopefully we've given you

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<v Speaker 1>some ideas on ways to begin to progress in that direction,

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<v Speaker 1>and hopefully it'll help. That's at least what we're continuing

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<v Speaker 1>to try and do for ourselves and our clients. That's right.

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<v Speaker 1>guys are thinking about. So until next week for Nora

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<v Speaker 1>Saint John, I'm Brian Richie. We'll see you then.

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<v Speaker 2>Hi, guys, no