Question: My questions are in regard to your video: Q & A for The 16% – Heels-Elevated Squat – Hip ER to Hip IR to Hip ER 1) Is the reason for pushing through the medial heel on the ascent to promote pronation (exhalation strategy)? 2) During the ascent, would there be any benefit to […]
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Virtual Staff Training: Overhead pressing and Neck Mechanics
In this video: Dan got a group of coaches together for a staff training session on Zoom. We talked about a lot of issues, but we started off with a discussion of neck mechanics and how the lower cervical spine behaves differently. This led us to consider the influences of dorsal-rostral mechanics and how they […]
Q & A for The 16% – Overcoming and Yielding Actions – A Demonstration
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 […]
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?? […]