Links to this week on YouTube:
- Weekly Q & A for the 16% – November 10, 2019: https://youtu.be/nWBYSDXVQR4
- Padawan Lesson: The Versatility of The Box Squat: https://youtu.be/U7gtlX5BHJc
- The IFAST Podcast #1 with Mike Robertson and Bill Hartman – How to Start a Fitness Training Facility: https://youtu.be/NMJqdlBVIjI
- Bill Hartman’s Coaching Conversation with Jon Herting -Treating the person, not the diagnosis: https://youtu.be/lnXdGQ5Dw7w
This week’s topics on Instagram (@billhartmapt):
- Elevation Training Mask opinions
- Diagnosis Rolling (big YouTube video coming!)
- Pain Science Resources
- Shoulder Injury and Breathing Exercises
- Daily video For the 16%…
This week’s Q & A questions:
- Should I use the box squat at 90 degrees and coach and explode off the box with strong exhalation (exhalation/concentric strategy ) … Should I use a deeper box squat to promote more yielding and descended pelvic diaphragm ( inhalation strategy – more ER , flexion )
- Is a compensatory inhalation strategy a strategy someone uses when they are biased towards exhalation ( compression)??
- Do you think you could breakdown and explain in more detail what the exercise is doing to improve the shape of the thorax and pelvis? Would you perform on both sides?
- I think you indicated that the current set up was suitable for a wide ISA. How would you change the exercise if you had a narrow ISA/inhalation bias?
- I am also confused with foot position. If your feet supinate are you using an inhalation strategy? If you pronate are you using and exhalation strategy?
- Can you also relate pelvic diaphragm mechanics to the cue “pretend like you are holding in gas” and when to use that cue?
- If you cue ” hold in gas on the inhale does it activate pelvic floor? Shouldn’t you want pelvic floor to activate on the exhale…moving up like a piston with the thoracic diaphragm?
- I was wondering what fields and areas of science would you recommend an entry-level PT to study and read. Additionally, do you have any advice for a new PT about to embark on this epic journey of starting in the field?
- In your opinion should arm care be aimed at increasing dorsal rostral space? Instead of the typical I, T, Y’s. I liked your KB arm bar Video. Other ways you like to challenge the RTC for a baseball player.
- From your last video, what does eccentrically yield the sternum mean? (Your talk on pronating the glove arm)
- Training thoracic spine movement and is it worth doing in isolation?
- What is the specific shape change of the pelvis you were attempting to create with the lateral drag video?
Can you clarify the shape change of the thorax associated with rotation and where we need yielding/overcoming contractions in order to have the most efficient strategy for something like a change of direction or pitch in baseball. - I heard you discussing on a video about catching a medicine ball throw, and how that teaches us to “catch our guts”? Could you go a little more into this? Where could someone read more about the forces produced by the ’guts’ or internal organs during movement?
- Could you please talk about the relationship between the ability to expand the upper thorax and neck movement. I can’t figure out the exact relationship between thorax expansion and the ability to rotate the neck. thank you
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