Bill Hartman

Tag: Breathing exercises

  • Q & A for The 16% – How and Why? – Heels-Elevated Squat

    Q & A for The 16% – How and Why? – Heels-Elevated Squat

    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 reversing the exact sequence used in the descent of the squat (instead of exhaling all the way to the top)? If so, what is an example where this would this be beneficial?

    3) What superficial compressive strategy would you be reinforcing by taking at breath you took at the top and held through the “middle-propulsion” phase during the descent of the squat?

    In this video: I’ll review and clarify the cues and the rationale behind performance of the heels-elevated squat. Make sure to view the video in question here.

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  • Virtual Staff Training: Overhead pressing and Neck Mechanics

    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 influence not only neck range of motion but also how they influence overhead pressing.

    You can use the overhead press as a diagnostic if you know what you’re looking at.

    #neckpain #overheadpress #billhartmanpt

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  • Q & A for The 16% – Overcoming and Yielding Actions – A Demonstration

    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 shorten/lengthen non-uniformly to produce smooth, fluid movement.

    In this video: I demonstrate on a large scale representation of how our muscles behave under certain circumstances. If you have questions, please post them below in the comments.

    #overcoming #musclecontraction #billhartmanpt

     

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  • The Chris Knott Podcast Q & A with Bill Hartman

    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

    • How strength training affects your mechanics

    • My training history and how he used to train (does anyone really care… okay, maybe)

    • Why exercise prescription in postural correction is vital and why exercises should be prescribed based on assessments and not a presumption.

    Bill Hartman on the Chris Knott Podcast

     

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  • Q & A for The 16% – Heels-Elevated Squat – Hip ER to Hip IR to Hip ER

    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?? Is a pure vertical displacement on the way down still likely to happen or will the exhale make it harder for the sacrum to counternutate?? (doesn’t in fact the exhale entail sacrum nutation??)

    Thank you, Bill. Please keep up the great work!!

    Greetings from Italy. -Fabrizio

    In this video: I explain how to avoid the compensatory breathing strategy associated with superficial muscle compression that can limit movement. I also explain how you move from inhalation/external rotation to exhalation/internal rotation and back to inhalation/external rotation as you squat. Please pardon the lack of eye contact as I was working off of two cameras.

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