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  • Application for The Intensive X is now open… for 24 hours only.

    Application for The Intensive X is now open… for 24 hours only.

    Are you ready for round X?

    So here’s the deal.

    I’ve already opened applications to the mentorship list and, in just 24 hours, I have a record number of applications submitted.

    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 have 24 hours.

    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 X is February 6-9, 2020 at IFAST in Indianapolis, Indiana. We start at 8 pm on Thursday the 6th (unless you can make dinner at 6:30 at my favorite Mexican restaurant). We go until Sunday, February 9th 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 December 17th for The Intensive X. 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 X

  • The IFAST Podcast #5 – How We Train Professional Athletes

    The IFAST Podcast #5 – How We Train Professional Athletes

    We’ve been lucky to have had some great professional athletes work with us at IFAST in Indianapolis. Here’s how we do it.

    • :25 Mike’s beard check 1:15 Do we only train pros?
    • 2:10 Can a business survive only training pros?
    • 2:30 How much off-season do we get?
    • 6:00 How we got our first pro
    • 7:55 Word of mouth and social proof
    • 8:30 All marketing is word of mouth 1
    • 0:00 Is Indianapolis the hotbed of training
    • 11:10 You must provide a good product first
    • 13:00 Our process in working with the pros
    • 14:30 Establishing do’s and don’t’s
    • 15:30 The Assessment
    • 16:30 What are the priorities?
    • 18:50 How to get buy-in
    • 21:30 Showing was is necessary
    • 22:35 Do we really need more strength training?

     

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  • Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for the 16% – December 1, 2019

    Bill Hartman’s Weekly Q & A for the 16% – December 1, 2019

    This week on YouTube:

    This week on Instagram (@billhartmanpt)

    • How to use lifting belts as a teaching tool
    • Emphasize a cascade of health
    • The Terry Project manual techniques to expand the upper thorax
    • Videos for The 16%

     

    This week’s questions for the Q & A:

     

    • If I’m looking at an asymmetrical ISA am I just looking at someone who is constantly turning right?
      Should I get them turning Left or focus uniform expansion first?
    • Do you assess ISA in people with TOS? Usually their scapulae are depressed and they have decreased thoracic kyphosis (from what I’ve seen) which would be indicative of a wide ISA. I’ve never heard anyone assessing it as a part of the treatment so it would be nice if you could expand on that a little bit.
    • What’s the origin of 16%?
    • Why is the posterior pelvis, which “starts” in an inhaled orientation, exhaled? Why does the entire pelvis orient anteriorly secondary to compression in the thorax? If an anterior pelvis orientation yields a “mess” of hip IR, what’s the situation with the wide/powerlifting type folk that very much live in anterior orientation yet often have IR of 0. Sincerely appreciate all that you do, and hoping to make an intensive one of these rounds!
    • In a perfect world, do we start at the “first” compensation? I.e. teach the wides to exhale the ISA and teach the narrows to inhale the ISA, and see what changes?
    • I think you link concentric exhale biased strategies with weightlifters/strength/hypertrophy. But I also thought training the eccentric improved strength. I think my question is – can you bias your training towards eccentric/inhalation based exercises to improve movement variability and still improve strength/hypertrophy?
    • Re your box squat video. I think you mentioned that you would dive deeper into this exercise. If you do I am definitely very keen to learn more about how you bias it for your wide ISA clients.
    • Do fascial lines even matter when it comes to assessing an individual and/or programming?
    • Could you please go over in more detail how anterior to posterior compression of the pelvis restricts hip motion?

     

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  • Before you prescribe I,T,Y exercises, consider the consequences

    Before you prescribe I,T,Y exercises, consider the consequences

    In this discussion, we use the common I,T,Y exercises as a representation of how and when to individualize exercise prescription, and why you cannot generalize.

    :10 Blind exercise prescription
    1:00 I,T,Y may be the wrong thing to do
    1:45 Concentric vs. Eccentric and “weakness”
    2:40 A false external rotation measurement
    3:04 Dorsal-rostral compression
    3:28 You can’t generalize exercise prescription to baseball pitchers
    4:20 The difference in baseball pitchers’ structure and influence on performance
    5:45 When should elements of prescription be similar
    6:00 Optimize exercise cues
    7:00 Wide ISA compensatory strategy and dorsal-rostral compression
    7:58 Who will benefit from the compression created by I,T,Y exercises
    10:15 Is a compensatory strategy useful?
    10:45 When the compensatory strategy limits health
    12:00 Adaptations for performance vs. health
    12:43 You can’t generalize prescription
    13:20 Scapular winging
    14:00 You can’t blame the scapula
    14:30 Prescribing I,T,Y when you’re already compressed
    14:50 Misdiagnosing the need for strength
    15:33 How can one muscle be weak?
    16:20 Tissues benefit from load
    16:41 How strong is strong enough?
    17:00 The multifactorial nature of performance
    17:16 When does dorsal-rostral compression benefit range of motion
    18:28 The person diagnosed with GIRD
    19:00 False positive external rotation
    19:15 Prescribing I,T,Y exercise at the wrong time
    19:29 External rotation and internal rotation occur at the same time
    20:00 What do I,T,Y exercises or face pulls do at the scapulae
    20:10 Is scapular retraction good?
    20:25 The thorax moves forward during scapular retraction
    20:30 Face pull demonstration
    20:40 The failure of postural correction with I,T,Y exercises
    21:29 Medial scapular border compression
    21:54 Loss of external rotation with medial scapular border compression

    #ITYexercises #billhartmanpt #shoulderpain

     

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  • IFAST Shoe Quest 3:  Adidas Alphabounce Trainer vs New Balance Minimus 20 V7

    IFAST Shoe Quest 3: Adidas Alphabounce Trainer vs New Balance Minimus 20 V7

    IFAST Shoe Quest: Round 3

    Erik and I continue to look for shoes with broad application for linear speed, jumping and plyometrics, change of direction, and Olympic weightlifting.

    Competitiors:
    Adidas Alphabounce Trainer vs. New Balance Minimus 20 V7

    What shoes do you want to see tested?