Overcoming actions and Yielding actions of muscle are sometimes difficult to grasp because of the ingrained weakness of how we learned muscle contraction in school. While useful, the model that school provided has significant limitations. If we think differently, we can refine our understanding of how muscles can magnify pressures, allow movement to occur, and […]
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The Chris Knott Podcast Q & A with Bill Hartman
Chris Knott and I discuss the following topics: Why I run The Intensives and what he and his students get from the experience The learning process and why it’s so important to continue learning at any stage of your career and start to think differently The ISA and why presentations impact your suitability towards exercises […]
Q & A for The 16% – Heels-Elevated Squat – Hip ER to Hip IR to Hip ER
Question: Hi there, Bill!! This is Fabrizio from Italy. Hope you are fine. I would like to know what happens when you exhale on the way down of a “squatty squat” (goblet or Zercher plus heel wedge for example). Are you actually biasing an expansion/inhaled exercise variation towards a more compressed strategy in this case?? […]
Q & A for The 16% – Bones and Shape Change for Bigger Lifts, Higher Jumps, and Better Breathing
Movement professionals tend to see a limited view of the human system. Focus is placed on the muscles and tendons, but the skeleton is under-appreciated. Bones bend, twist, compress and expand. They store and release a great deal of energy making them essential in the process of human performance. In this video: I explain how […]
Q & A for The 16% – Rotator Cuff and Scapular Muscle Activity – Yielding and Overcoming Represented
Question: I was just reading through “The role of shoulder muscles is task-specific” by Boettcher et. al (2010, Journal of science and medicine in sport) which found that in 90 degrees of shoulder abduction: – trapezius and serratus EMG activation increased with isometric external rotation – trapezius and serratus activation dropped to nearly zero with […]