Tag: Breathing exercises

  • Q & A for the 16%… Split squat breakdown for early, mid, and late propulsion

    Q & A for the 16%… Split squat breakdown for early, mid, and late propulsion

    Question: Could you run through some split squat variations and what strategies they bias eg. Front foot elevated, rear foot elevated etc. I watched your video on affecting the foot using a rear foot elevated split squat but didn’t fully understand the rationale?

    Here’s my answer and a demo of the foot as a representation of each phase of propulsion. #splitsquat #legworkout #propulsion

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  • Q & A for the 16%… Rope pull with Emphasis on Thorax Expansion for Clients with a Wide ISA

    Q & A for the 16%… Rope pull with Emphasis on Thorax Expansion for Clients with a Wide ISA

    Question:
    I would like to combine the merits of Joel Jamieson style recovery workouts (i.e. say 20 mins of 130 bpm work) and exercises that promote an inhalation bias for wide ISAs to expand Anterior to Posterior thorax and promote counternutation of the pelvis. When you put exercises together like your whatsthatstrap sled pull and your rope pull what is your thought process for the positioning of the feet, pelvis and arms and anything else you consider important. I have read your previous posts but I would be lying if I said I understood it yet. Thanks again.

    Thanks for your question!

    Here’s my answer with a demonstration of how to bias the rope pull to inhalation/expansion or exhalation/compression.

    #billhartmanpt #infrasternalangle #recoveryworkout

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  • Monday Question:  How To Gain Shoulder Flexion for the Narrow Infrasternal Angle Client

    Monday Question: How To Gain Shoulder Flexion for the Narrow Infrasternal Angle Client

    Clients with wide infrasternal angles and narrow infrasternal angles tend to benefit from different strategies in regard to improving shoulder flexion range of motion.

    Shoulder impingement or simple achieving a normal overhead reach without using a compensatory reaching strategy is built from the lower thorax upward.

    This video explains why it’s important to improve the lower posterior rib cage expansion for narrow ISA individuals, and how to do it.

    #infrasternalangle #shoulderpain #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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  • Why you must individualize exercise prescription

    Why you must individualize exercise prescription

    You cannot blindly prescribe exercises based on the sport or the position that the athlete plays. Each athlete has their own personalized physics that determines how they perform.

    The exercise prescription should respect that fact.

    We must adapt the exercise, the cues, and the execution to meet the needs of the individual rather than just the perceived needs of the skill. Here I use baseball pitchers as an example of how generalized exercise programs for pitchers fail a large percentage of the athletes.

    #baseballpitcher #billhartmanpt #throwersten

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