Bill Hartman

Tag: Breathing exercises

  • 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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  • How to Use a Lifting Belt as a Teaching Tool

    How to Use a Lifting Belt as a Teaching Tool

    A weightlifting belt is most often worn to increase the amount of weight you can lift. However, there may be other uses as a teaching tool in some contexts.

    The intraabdominal pressure created by the lifting belt can provide cues to promote a concentrically-oriented pelvic diaphragm and create an overcoming contraction to enhance lower extremity strength/force production, improve jump landing mechanics, or restore pelvic floor control.

     

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  • Weekly Update and Q & A for November 24, 2019

    Weekly Update and Q & A for November 24, 2019

    I had to miss the Q & A last week because of The Intensive IX, so here are the links to this week’s YouTube videos:

    • The IFAST Podcast #2 – The IFAST Internship: https://youtu.be/kvCH0TtVak8
    • How to Introduce Rolling into Assessments, Breathing, and Training: https://youtu.be/YNvyF8BSMWA
    • The IFAST Podcast #3 – How We Hire at IFAST (and when to fire!): https://youtu.be/FXquBOCG04A
    • A Better Way to Measure Shoulder Flexion: https://youtu.be/jw1CmVIedB4
    • How to Measure the Infrasternal Angle: https://youtu.be/9WbPR4KIsQo
    • How to Mobilize the Ankle to Increase Propulsion: https://youtu.be/0LUNtUVL4Ow

    Topics on Instagram this week (@billhartmanpt):

    • Mixed grip deadlifts and body orientation
      How synovial joints work and development of arthritis
      Training to bias inhalation and early propulsion
      Daily videos for The 16%

    Upcoming Media! I was interviewed on The QB docs podcast with Drew Keil this week so be looking for that coming up in a few weeks.

    This week’s questions for the Q & A:

    • Could you elaborate on the “chessboard” which would result in a ton of hip IR with limitations in hip ER? It seems that most compensations result in some brand of anterior pelvic orientation which ought to bias the acetabulum into allowing for much more ER than IR (as in the case of a typical compressed wide ISA individual).
    • How does the anteriorly rotated innominate bias the femur into IR?
    • Question referring to ISA:
      After establishing wide/narrow what will be your next step.
      Also what is done with individuals who do not have wide nor narrow. You can say your 108.8. What strategies would be used there?
    • So if the ribs and can open and close as the arms go overhead, would that be an optimal ISA? And what would that mean movement-wise for the person?
    • In your shoulder flexion video, you had Nicki demonstrate a self-test. Is there a cluster of self-tests that would provide the most information for what needs restoration prior to or during training?
    • You have previously mentioned how you are keen to avoid treating clients like rehab clients if you can avoid it. You mentioned that if warm-ups were better this could address a lot of issues. I think you like the bear crawl – could you talk more about your warm-up exercise program?
    • Asymmetrical ribcage? Or am I just always turning right?
    • Would you subscribe to the idea that individual limbs move in a spiral movement trajectory only, or are there some straight line and diagonal influences as well as seems to be evidenced by Collagen lay down? How do internal fluid pressures influence this? Would it be incorrect to consider a concept of spiral muscular/Fascial loops that work like compression and tension-type fluid-filled springs?
    • You stated that although early and late propulsion look similar, the hip position varies between the two, how does the hip position change from early to late propulsion?

     

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  • How to Measure the Infrasternal Angle to determine a Wide ISA or a Narrow ISA

    How to Measure the Infrasternal Angle to determine a Wide ISA or a Narrow ISA

    The infrasternal angle is a useful test to determine breathing compensatory strategies that influence movement capabilities. Your ability to measure it effectively will provide understanding and guidance as to the best interventions to impact a client’s movement.

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