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  • Applications for The Intensive XI are open! [Now closed]

    Applications for The Intensive XI are open! [Now closed]

    It’s time to get set for round XI!

    The Intensive X group is already at work on their prep.

    It’s time to select the next group for The Intensive XI.

    Applications are already coming in at a high rate from my mentorship list, so I probably won’t be keeping them open much longer.

    Only 8 professionals will be selected from the application process. Without question, keeping it small maximizes the benefits to the attendees, so I anticipate it being difficult to get it down to 8 attendees if I get many more. I want to give those not on the list a shot, so you only have a few hours today.

    Yes, I know. Not ideal, and you’ll be rushed, but please give thought to your answers on the application.

    Several attendees have applied multiple times. Not everyone is ready right away. Sometimes you need to struggle, learn, and grow before you get to attend. It’s not about your resumé. It’s about being a thinker.

    The When and Where

    The Intensive XI is March 12-15, 2020 at IFAST in Indianapolis, Indiana. We start at 8 pm on Thursday March 12th (unless you can make dinner at 6:30 at my favorite Mexican restaurant). We go until Sunday, March 15th at about noon. When we get hungry, we eat. When we get tired, we sleep.

    The Who

    Up to eight (8) professionals (It is NOT for students) who:

    Are comfortable with contributing ideas, asking, and answering questions.

    Have an understanding of foundational movement-based anatomy and exercise/training concepts.

    Want to challenge and help other professionals improve.

    Understand the value of a coach and seek a learning network of individuals with common concerns, interests, and goals but different backgrounds.

    Selfishly, it’s for me. I enjoy what I do, and I enjoy sharing ideas and interacting with bright, motivated people from whom I too can learn.

    The What

    A fun, open, engaging, and challenging environment

    Guided, focused effort over three days

    Develop a principles-based approach

    Examining a model of human movement from micro to macro

    Assessment processes from a passive to a dynamic environment

    Cuing, coaching, decision-making, intervention strategies, and programming

    Ongoing discussion and conversation over dinner at Casa de Hartman

    Enhance and evolve your personal information capture and learning system

    Share knowledge as part of an ongoing professional network

    Follow-up mentorship to assure ongoing progress

    Train at IFAST

    The eight individuals will be selected via the application process as quickly as possible. Selected attendees will be notified of acceptance by January 24th for The Intensive XI. If you are not notified by that date, you have not been selected. We get many great applications but we must limit attendance to provide the best possible experience.

    How Much?

    It is $699 to attend in addition to your travel expenses. Your food is taken care of.

    Application for The Intensive XI is now closed.

  • Why Your Athletes Are NOT Dysfunctional

    Why Your Athletes Are NOT Dysfunctional

    There were so many great elements to this discussion.

    We need to stop looking at clients and athletes as dysfunctional.

    Perhaps they don’t perform as desired, but the human movement system is providing the best solution at that moment within that context. It is our job to intervene effectively to get the system to respond as desired.

    Welcome to complexity.

    Here’s the link to the full podcast: http://theqbdocs.libsyn.com/tqbd-143-bill-hartman

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  • Why Can’t You Touch Your Toes?

    Why Can’t You Touch Your Toes?

    The hamstrings are often blamed for the limitation in the ability to touch your toes.

    There’s a lot more to it.

    What’s required:

    • Normal breathing
    • Dorsal-rostral expansion
    • Infrasternal angle dynamics
    • Eccentric orientation of the erector spinae
    • Eccentric orientation of the posterior hip muscles
    • Upper cervical extensionIn this video, I’ll explain each of these needs and limitations as well as demonstrate a few gym exercises that will help you touch your toes.

    #toetouch #tighthamstrings #billhartmanpt

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  • Arm Training for Athletes – 3 Mistakes

    Arm Training for Athletes – 3 Mistakes

    Here are 3 common mistakes when selecting arm training for athletes:

    1. Treating arm training as a throw-away exercise. Athletes like to look as good as they play, but their arm training cannot just be about big biceps and triceps. Arm training influences the neck, shoulder, rib cage, thoracic spine, and breathing. Pick the wrong arm training exercise for your athletes, and you may very well be the cause of a movement problem, shoulder pain, neck pain, or reduced performance on the field or the court.
    2. Not paying attention to the orientation of the body You may be training the right muscles, but if you put the body in the wrong position, you may be compromising shoulder and neck range of motion. On the flip side, if you position the body correctly, you may be able to restore full range of motion where it was limiting performance.
    3. Not appreciating the orientation of the upper arm, the forearm, and the wrist when selecting arm training for athletes. Golfer’s elbow (medial epicondylalgia, medial elbow pain, medial elbow tendonitis), Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylalgia, lateral elbow pain, lateral elbow tendonitis), and many other elbow pains can be associated with the relationship between the upper arm (humerus) and forearm. Your biceps exercise or triceps exercise may complicate or reduce an existing elbow problem. You wouldn’t compromise on your leg training. Why would you compromise arm training?

    #biggerbiceps #skullcrushers #billhartmanpt

     

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  • Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for The 16% – December 29, 2019

    Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for The 16% – December 29, 2019

    Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for The 16% – December 29,2019

    00:12
    This week on BillHartmanPT.com: What words are meaningful to your client: https://billhartmanpt.com/question-what-words-are-meaningful-to-your-clients/

    This week on YouTube: Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for The 16% – December 22, 2019: https://youtu.be/IE0mjTb1z7g
    Why you should individualize exercise prescription: https://youtu.be/WOvkZ36Fmys

    This week on Instagram (@billhartmanpt):

    Finding your solution to your pain
    The importance and value of teaching to learn
    The evolution of your continuing education
    Videos for The 16%

    This week’s Questions:

    2:12
    Could you explain what’s going in the pelvic floor when someone is doing a goblet squat in the rack with a band attached to the J hooks so when they squat down it’s almost as if they are bouncing off of it! I’m curious about the intent behind it, when it’s appropriate, and why?

    4:28
    With your help to date my ‘hingey’ squat is looking more squatty (thanks!). To date, I have been using light front bar squats (circa 50kg including the bar). When the SSB arrives I am looking to increasingly load my squatty squat. My understanding is that targeting a squatty squat will help improve my movement variability by helping me become less exhale biased & compressed. But I also understand that improving force production may re-enforce my compressed exhale biased axial skeleton. In light of this – using the SSQ bar is there a limit to how much I should progress the loading of a squatty squat?

    7:35
    Does the ability to abduct the femur = pelvic diaphragm eccentrically orienting and the pelvic outlet closing. And the ability to adduct the femur = pelvic diaphragm concentrically orienting and pelvic outlet widening. Are these useful tests to figure out where someone is limited in the propulsion arc?

    9:41
    What typically is the underlying driver in an individual that presents with excessive femoral IR in standing static posture and excessive bilateral “leg whip“ when running? Is it typically an excessive anterior orientation of the entire pelvis vs a sacral nutation with Ilial ER?

    11:37
    What tests do you use to determine if you have a compressive strategy? -what is being compressed? -what is the result? 1

    3:26
    Do you believe the entire human body is a literal tensegrity structure? Or are there just some elements of tensegrity within the system. Read something interesting about how the spine can’t be a literal tensegrity structure because the compression elements do not actually cross each other.

    16:26
    I am very fascinated with pelvic mechanics at the moment and was hoping you could offer some good resources to learn from as well.

    #pelvicfloor #tensegrity #breathingexercises

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