Jeff Cavaliere
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And see if you can hold that even for just 30 seconds.
And it's difficult.
You'll feel a lot of shaking.
You'll feel a lot of sagging of that bottom hip because you're asking your glute medius on that underside leg to hold you up into that position.
So the beauty about that series of tests, though, is that they're all trainable.
So if it's trainable, it's fixable.
you can improve as you have, right?
You're now much better at the test, the old man test.
Yeah, strength is not even like a determining factor or predictor here either.
You can be very, very strong and do incredibly poorly on this test because you're not strong in these areas.
Or you could just have β
bad vestibular balance, right?
It could be that alone.
Once you start to lean forward or look down, you don't have good control.
But it is testing a variety of things.
And if you do poorly on it, you can look a little deeper, investigate a little deeper through additional tests to try to find out exactly where your weakness is.
But it's a good broad spectrum test to see how good your functional balance is.
It's easier, right?
It's going to be quicker.
Yeah.