Dr. Andy Galpin

There's a small change in my voice, but I should have active control of my obliques and my transverse abdominis so that I can move my hands outward while still having a breath, while not having to hold, not having to contract and have everything tight and

Can I activate those things separately?

So again, a way you can make this easier is you crunch down.

So imagine you're trying to connect your fingertips and your thumbs and you're smashing your sides together.

And when you do that, just like the quadruped version, you're more likely to be able to do some contraction.

If you go from normal to just pushing out, very few people have success there.

Similar thing can be done from the posterior side.

So putting your fingertips just above what's called your PSIS, so that little kind of top bone in the back of your pelvis, can you push it backwards and out?

If you can, we have a better ability to brace in a 360 degree fashion rather than just getting all of our bracing strategy from the front side and locking down or overextending.

So that's a combination of, you know, again, kind of back of the envelope, things I personally like to see in contrast to the direct numbers to hit to understand whether you're kind of good, bad, or indifferent.

So that's a little bit of context of how to interpret

the results from the tests that you're doing.

I don't think we need to go much further here because I actually would like to spend the rest of our time getting into our third eye and that's intervene.

How do we manipulate these modifiable variables?

How do we choose the exercises?

How do we order them?

How do we pick our volume and intensity and our rest intervals?

And then how do we progress them?

As we've discussed a little bit in the physiology section of the conversation, they do have unique requirements.

The physiology is not quite different, but they are other things we need to associate with that will interact with and alter how we take our progression style.