Reboot Your Nervous System & Train Broken Muscles To Work The Right Way Again With Shawn Sherman.

All right, so this is the beginning of what could be a quite interesting podcast. I had a guy named Adam McDowell, also known as Ovingmuscle, on Instagram. Reach out to me on Instagram, I think, right, Adam. And he's like, oh, I know this guy, Sean Sherman. He's amazing. He's got this new bodywork technique that just, like, resets the way you use your muscle. You know, enough stuff to where I was kind of intrigued because I'm always kind of tuned into to new forms of bodywork therapy or muscle activation, whatever you want to call it. But Adam introduced me to this guy named Sean Sherman from a company called Square One Systems. And the show notes for today's episode is actually going to be@BenGreenfieldFitness.com Square one. Like, square the number one. BenGreenfieldFitness.com Square One. So I told Adam, I'm like, well, I mean, like, if I've got a free, you know, couple of days, why don't you guys fly up and we'll put a massage table out in the sunshine like we have right here, and will record some content and see if this is something that could be helpful to my audience, because I know a lot of you are weekend warriors, exercise enthusiasts, recreational athletes, pro athletes, people who just want to keep their bodies put together for health span and lifespan for a period of time. So, anyways, so Sean and Adam showed up at my house yesterday afternoon here in Spokane. We got my massage table out here in the sunshine. For those of you listening to the audio, we're actually recording a video version of this as well, which I'll make available where the show notes appear. But we. We had a fun time last night. Yeah, guys, we had. We had a bunch. There's a chiropractic convention in town, so I got a bunch of friends in town like Peter Martone and Mindy, pals. We have people over. We had some Traeger grill, lobster and salmon and a big feast. And I got my butt kicked at cornhole. And then we woke up this morning and. And we're about to dive in, and I'm about to turn things over to Sean to show us his magic. And you're at Square One Systems, singular.

So Square One Systems.

And there's like, square one systems dot com. Exactly.

Square one.

System or singular? Yeah, system. System, singular. And so if you guys have questions, comments, or feedback on what you see or what you hear, again, you go to BenGreenfieldFitness.com square the number one. And I am a total Virgin. I have no clue what I'm getting into. I literally purposefully did not ask many questions and figured Sean would show up and just take things away. So, Sean, welcome to Spokomton.

All right.

Spokane, I love.

Used to be that way. Spokane's pretty cool now. So, Sean, give folks just a. I don't know if you want to give them a touch of a background as you start to do what you do on me, or if it'd be helpful for you to spend a couple of minutes giving people a background first.

Yeah, maybe we get that out of the way and then it becomes more natural to start going to flow actual session.

All right, so what is this?

So square one, there's. That's. That's the hardest question for me to answer, because if 100 people ask me that, I give you 100 different answers. But in a nutshell, what we're going to do is we're going to find out where you're having a flawed perception of ground forces, right? So that's where movement and where posture starts. So it's a subconscious perception of where the ground is and how you're oriented in relationship to the ground and past stress, trauma, injury, that'll alter your sensory motor signaling. So that'll make your perception skew, where you're perceiving that you're a little bit tipped to the right or left, forward or back or a little bit rotated. So these three different planes of movement and everybody's off on some level.

Right? And so obviously for ground reaction force athlete, like a football player or soccer, something like that, this would be incredibly crucial. It could be. What about for a guy like me, just like walking 10 to 20,000 steps a day, you know, now I'm kind of in just like, you know, enjoyment, fitness, right? Just keep myself put together. Where's the link there?

Well, the link is that all human beings, we're all movers, so efficiency is always going to beat the tar out of inefficiency. So what we're going to do is we're going to clean out these inefficiencies so that every time your foot strikes the ground, it hits it more optimally. So you're talking less wear and tear in your joints, you get more out of your workout sessions or whatever you're doing. So for fitness enthusiasts to elite athletes, there's something for everybody.

So if you engage in chronic repetitive motion, it's essentially the patterning that you're trying to adjust that someone is more biomechanically appropriate with, like, you know, toe off gait, anything like that with everything.

So what we're really doing is we're boiling down all human movement to two base patterns of getting upright and locomotion. So this getting upright is really. You call that posture? So there's two phases, getting up and going down. So it's complete full body supination, overcoming gravity.

Okay.

Or complete full body pronation where you're collapsing, absorbing shock into the ground.

Right.

So up and down is our static balance pattern or posture. And the dynamic balance or locomotion is what happens when the right foot strikes the ground. Ground reaction forces come up through the whole kinetic chain in three degree. Yeah, three planes of movement. Same thing with the left. So it's right versus left, up versus down. We're looking for where you're leaking energy on those.

Why on God's green earth should people trust you?

Like, what's your background? That's great. My background, if you go back really far, I have a four year degree from Penn State. I was an early adopter of a system years ago, 18, 20 years ago. Muscle activation techniques. Oh yeah? Yep.

So is that Craig Bueller?

Craig Bueller's one of his students. Greg Roscoff is the guy who came up that system.

Craig's advanced muscle integrative technique. Is that what he does?

Amit, I really haven't paid attention over the last.

The only reason I ask is way back in the day, Tim Ferriss in his book Four Hour Body, okay, talked about Dr. Dr. Thumb, I think he called him, who would like put his thumbs in different areas of the body, do muscle testing, release certain muscles, activate certain muscles.

Okay.

This guy's name was Dr. Craig Bueller. I wound up actually through mutual acquaintance meeting Craig down in Utah. And I've since been down to see him a few times and he lays down the table. He does some, some muscle testing, even actually has like a digitized device where he can test the muscle and then he kind of like activates some stuff. You get up, you walk, you get back on the table. So that's, you know, essentially my experience with this was with Dr. Bueller in salt Lake.

So that style of testing, I'm assuming that Dr. Bueller is still using. He's a chiropractor. I believe he has a background in clinical kinesiology. We're using the exact same style of muscle testing. So that's what I've borrowed from my years when I was doing mat.

Yeah.

Everything else that I learned back then has pretty much been abandoned. So instead of looking at muscles as the source as this piece of the puzzle that we're going to manipulate, we're actually looking at joint actions. Because my problem with trying to break down posture and movement from a muscular level is the way we're designed. There is no muscle that functions in isolation by itself. But a joint action, we can isolate those. So we're looking at how joint actions create patterns. Because if you look at a lot of definitions of a pattern, there's no mention of muscles. It's really multiple joint actions working together to accomplish a task. So I'm going to try to find out where your brain says, hey, I can't handle ground reaction forces in this joint action. When the brain perceives that it can't tolerate load, it has to work around that, and that's compensation. So we're looking at mineral compensation.

Okay, gotcha. And then one last question before I guess we dive in and you start to show what it is you're doing. Because I feel like this lends itself well to demonstration, which is why we're doing the video and everything too. You know, when people hear muscle testing, many folks, especially those of the scientific vents, will bristle because they associate it with, oh, you hold the ginger in one hand and you hold the digestive enzymes in the other hand, and then you hold out your arm and the person presses down on it. And, you know, you put on the magic balance bracelet County Expo. And. And so a lot of people think that's total woo. How is your style any different than something like that?

I think it's the exact same style, but it's how we're using that positive or negative response or that. That safety versus threatening response and interpreting it in regards to, again, to load and mechanics and the ground itself. But what I like to do on the front end of a demo is I'm going to find some flawed outcomes like a restriction range of motion. So we have a secondary way to check that what we're doing is not bogus. So we're going to show hopefully some range of motion improvements.

Okay, cool. And this is going to be interesting because I really haven't told you anything at all about my body.

Right?

Just your microphone here. We got. Sean, just for listeners, we had this MacGyvered up. We got it. We got his receiver duct taped to him. We got Adam running, running technical backup. So. So audience, be. Be kind because we're literally just three muscle heads here trying to figure out how to use audio equipment. So anyways, that. Well, this will be interesting for people to kind of see because it's It's. It's something I'm intrigued about. And I haven't told you anything about my body at all, so.

I don't like that you haven't even asked what I'm doing until right now.

I haven't asked you a single question.

It's more natural this way.

Dinner last night. I was just joking with you about this, but we haven't talked about this stuff at all, so this is gonna be interesting. You know nothing about me, correct? It's like a magic show where you go to. It's like. Exactly. You know this person. Have you ever seen each other before in your life? No. Okay, so.

So the biggest thing I want to do or ask is like, you don't have to give me too many details, but if there's any recent trauma I just gotta be careful with because I always tell people I don't have MRI or X ray eyeballs. I don't want to damage anything or ear.

Well, like I was telling you, my wife jumped my bones this morning and that was kind of traumatic. It woke me up super early. Aside from that, toast. Psychosomatic trauma possib. So as fatigue. The main thing would be if I could name anything. A little bit of left lower limb issues.

Okay.

Primarily a little bit of left toe pain on, toe off.

Okay.

And then some left knee pain and more.

Just if there's anything we do that irritates to speak up, be a big wimp on the table. I'd rather you over report something's ugly.

So just like when. When someone's getting work like this done talk anytime something feels funny or you're just like, oh, that's an interesting spot.

Yeah, exactly. I just don't want to like create further irritation in case you have some.

Undiagnosed left toe and left knee. I've been a little bit buggy, but that's about it. Other than that, I'm healthy as a horse.

Perfect. All right, man, so let's get you laying on your back. We'll have your feet hanging off the edge. Okay. And slide you down here. And I don't do a whole lot of functional assessment before and after. It's actually probably one thing that maybe holds our system back. Well, my thing is I'd rather give people what they need. And all that's like kind of window dressing to me, so. But I do like to do a couple range of motion pieces to kind of get the client kind of okay, come along for the ride. But I don't want to waste like 5, 10 minutes doing all this pre assessment stuff. We do our thing and they gotta do another 10 minutes at the end. So I'm just gonna check like a quick range of motion deal on you just so we have a starting point, a reference point.

Okay.

So just have a lay flat in your back.

It's nice and warm in the sunshine. By the way, Adam, if you're. Adam's doing some backup Instagram. If you take my phone out of its giant defender shield anti EMF case and just like nuke your brain, you can do so. Because sometimes that case gets in the way of videography.

So.

All right, this is great.

And this is. I don't know what you stepped in, but you stepped in the same thing as everybody else. There's this common thing where the right leg doesn't turn in.

My right leg doesn't turn in.

Yeah, not as well as the lefty. I'll show you in a sec. But it's like, it's probably something like organs. You know, we're not really symmetrically, structurally or functionally. Yeah, I don't even care.

We got a big old liver on one side. Side. And deliver on the other side.

Well, you can feel the difference. You can feel that I'm actually pushing harder with the righty than the left. I feel that.

So my right leg won't go into internal rotation as much.

I want to get some longitudinal shot of that. And like, literally I'm kind of shoving him on this right side. I'm actually being kind of gentle on his left.

And for those of you listening, it will be really cool for you to check out the video too. If you want to kind of visualize this stuff, it'll all be@BenGreeFootFitness.com square one, that's Bain Grieffitness.com squares and then for.

Your listening audience instead of the viewing audience, right now, your left leg. I'm creating a little passive internal rotation on your left leg. We probably got, I don't know, 80 degrees, 85 degrees nearly, you know, flush with the ground on the right side. I'm gonna say 30, 40 degrees roughly.

Noticeably different to me as you're internally.

Rotating a good 40 to 60 degrees difference. And a lot of times, if I have an audience of like, bunch of strength coaches, I usually tap out right there and say, hey, guys, what I should we do to fix it? Then I kind of let them give their answers.

Yeah.

And then we do those things and very often nothing happens.

Right, right.

Like, oh, what do you want me to hit with the lacrosse ball?

Or, like, stretch the internal rotators.

So if we can try some of that. Yeah, right. So we could, like. So we're like, you can, like, you know, do a little massage. And adductors. That might be something. They might say, hey, we got to release it, Allow that movement to occur. And I'm the world's worst massage therapist. I'm not going.

Oh, man. I thought I'd just be able to land here and get a massage. Adam, you lied to me, bro. Told me I could just get a massage in the sunshine.

And no change right there, right?

Yep.

So that you want me to do this again here, Adam. Yeah, There we go. Perfect. So that's really no change.

Right.

But we could go through all kinds of stuff, and it doesn't mean everything else is garbage. It's not. That's not what we're trying to show. But just the common corrective approach a lot of times doesn't really do a whole lot.

Yeah.

Well, we're gonna leave this open for now.

Okay.

All right. I'm gonna do a muscle test. I know you've been tested by Bueller and probably a bunch of other people, but I'm going to re familiarize you.

With how I test because it's been a while since I've done muscle testing.

So I'm going to start with a test that just about everybody passes so that you get a sense of how abrupt I'm testing. And also, see, that's not a force output deal. So I'm not going to try to wrestle with you. It's just kind of an abrupt deal. So what we're going to do with this left leg, you're going to maintain this position. I'm going to try to push you in the midline. You're just going to stabilize and stop me from pushing anywhere there. That's about all I'm going to do. Right. And you're good. I'll bring the left leg back in, right leg out to the side. You're gonna stop me from pushing here. Beautiful. So now you know that I'm not.

Trying to wrestle you. Right, Right.

It's, like, kind of rough.

It's pretty. Pretty subtle muscles.

Yes, exactly. So now I'm gonna put you in a couple different positions.

I don't want to rhabdomyolysis after this.

That happens. We were doing something wrong. But I'm gonna go after a couple test positions that are commonly some weak links. So with this left leg, I want you to externally rotate maximum. So two things that I want you to do is I want you to keep your brain thinking about turning outward. And also you're gonna be resisting as I push in. So turn out. And as you keep turning, you're gonna stop me here. And that's a nice grab as well. So bring this left leg back down to midline and then we'll go here. Two things keep turning out as I go to push in. And I'm gonna give you another shot.

Leg was like noticeably weaker.

Yep. I'll do it again. Ready? Right here. And I'm not really pushing hard, so I got that little. Just a little bit slow, sloppy.

Okay.

Now I like to show people back to your question about how can we trust the test. I'm going to show you that you're actually strong there. You just. It's probably a lag in the muscle spindle where it's got to generate some slack and just can't do it right away. But if I do the test where I go a little slower, less abrupt, and I gradually ramp you up, you know, I'm gonna. I can actually, like. You're actually strong. Right. So it's not about force production. It's about, hey, can you respond to load right now? So to put it to the ground, it's not like, hey, hold on. I'm gonna take 10 seconds to like.

My right leg's a little sluggish and being able to react to the force you're putting.

Perfect. And now what we're not going to do with this, we're not. I'm not thinking, hey, what's going on with this guy's right leg? I'm literally. This is in its own box. This is just my red light, green light. We're going to use this as a change detector.

Okay.

Okay. So we talked briefly earlier about right versus left looking at locomotion. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to mimic ground reaction forces at a joint action level I'm using. So I'm going to shove your right ankle into dorsiflexion. And then we'll reference back to that muscle test and see what happens. Does it stay the same or does it change?

So I just do a little dorsiflexion flexion, which does. You listen in. That's the knee up towards the. Or the toe up towards the shin.

And then we go back to our test position.

Okay.

And stop me here. And there's no change.

Okay.

Left ankle, dorsiflexion. So toe to chest kind of deal. And then a little break. You take a Break there, but show me what happens here. Right, so we got that grab.

Yeah.

Okay. Now again, if someone's watching, like, oh, he's pushing hard. He's not pushing hard. I mean, it's easy to.

And by. By the way, this is just a note to James, my audio editor. If there's any pauses, if we have any technical sniffus, you know, like Sean's mic just started to fall off of him. Just tighten that up and. And you could eliminate those sections if necessary. I wish we were perfect, but we're not.

No worries. If we wait for perfect, man, we're.

Not gonna do much of any stupid duct tape.

Yeah, no worries. All right, so then what's cool is if I. When I shoved your left foot back here, turn it out again. Let's pick up where we left off. Good.

Yeah.

Solid.

Interesting.

Right?

My right leg stronger when you shove my left foot into dorsiflexion.

Yep. And I'll go back to this first one. Right. Dorsiflexion. Turn it out and kind of lose a little bit of capacity there.

Yep.

What's really cool is when I make you weak like that, we have that restriction. But when I shove you into the good spot, watch your leg turn in. Right. So we just pick up 40 degrees of range of motion by encouraging this. So what I'm interpreting all this as right now is when your left foot strikes the ground during locomotion. That helps your nervous system get more organized. When I shove your right foot in the dorsiflexion in the real time right now, it's helping or actually promotes disorganization. We don't want that.

Interesting.

Okay, so what we don't want to do is, hey, let's just practice landing here, there. Like, we don't want to be so generic about it. We want to be very specific. So we're going to try to find out where is this coming from. So the second piece that I borrowed from AK CK muscle testing, but also his therapy localization. AK is applied kinesiology.

Okay.

And CK is clinical kinesiology.

Okay.

AK is an offshoot of chiropractic. That was Dr. Beardahl. I believe he was like out of Detroit back in the 60s. I want to say one of his students was. Oh, forget the other falls name. The guy came from CK escapes me right now.

Probably not. A guy cannot be with that.

No worries. But it was a. It was an acolyte of beard all. Okay. Mock. So AKCK is kind of like. I would say it's like Chinese medicine. Applied to Western world. Yeah, but those are two tools that we have borrowed.

Kinesiology and clinical. Yep.

They'll come in later. That guy's name, but yeah. So those are two tools we borrowed. But all the maps that we're going to mess with and show you is what I've learned just from experimenting with people.

Right. All right, cool.

So we're going to find out, like, where's the signaling issue coming from? So we just tap the knees and we check the muscle test. Stop me if you can. So we're always going to use this as a reference.

You're good.

Check your ankles. That's all we're doing, is touch and go.

In the past, when I've done muscle testing, one thing that happens is I always forget when people pick it up. So always remind me. Assume I have muscle testing amnesia.

And I've done enough testing. I can usually tell when a person's.

Just, like, snoozing on me when they forgot. Yeah, Resist. Yeah, perfect.

So then. So we touch the knees. With therapy localization, there's no change. A nice strong test. We just touch their ankles. There's no change there. So it's telling me to look elsewhere for the issue.

Okay.

And then go to your hips. I want you to rotate here for me.

Okay, Excellent.

Ben, you want to touch your belly and your chest for.

Touch my belly with both hands.

One hand on the belly, one hand on your chest. Touch them simultaneously.

Okay.

And then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do a muscle test and see if that's housing the most recent reason you have the compensation. And it is. So we gotta narrow down to either lumbar spine or T spine. So just release the hand off the chest. Just touch the belly.

Okay.

And right here. Solid response. How about only touch your rib cage, please?

Only touch my ribcage. Back where I was before. Look up here.

Perfect. Then we go right here. Boom. So from all these joint action possibilities of what's causing you to compensate, we got to narrow down. When we find this right leg versus left leg, positive, negative, or organized, disorganized, that cut our options in half. So now there's 99 joint actions. Touch your hips, your knees, your ankles. It's not there. We go to your T spine. There's only three options here. So we went from 212 plus options to.

That's interesting. When I go in for chiropractic adjustments, because I go in my buddy Mike Valente at Valente Cairo, like, once a week. Once every two weeks.

Yep.

He always has to adjust. T11, T12.

There you go.

That one's usually stuck.

So here we'll do. Let's have you let go of the hand off the chest. I'm gonna bias this test so that your brain perceives that you're landing with your left foot striking the ground. So I'm gonna cock your left foot back. You don't have to help or anything, but just give me a big chest, like a thoracic extension for like, one or two seconds.

Wait, what do you mean?

Aim your chest to the sky?

Aim my chest to the sky? Just like, inhale, not even a breath.

More of a arch to upper back.

Okay, perfect.

Take a break.

Okay, March it.

That's it. And then go back and check our test. You're great. Now we're gonna go T spine flexion. So just bring your head and shoulders off the ground for a split second. Take a break. So we're doing. We're mimicking ground forces and find out where the brake is. Turn around here. Okay. So the most recent reason that Ben Greenfield has to compensate your brain is perceiving T spine flexion as. I'm not so sure about this. It's correct. So instead of, like, rubbing it with oils and popping this and that, all you're gonna do is we're gonna direct conscious intent into T spine flexion.

Okay.

And it's fancy thorough. All we do is just do an isometric. Just hold your head and shoulders off the ground for three seconds. Okay. One, two, three.

He's done. That's all he does. So remember the beginning. I shoved your left foot back. You're solid. I shoved your right foot back, and it was kind of causing a disorganization. I'm going to prove my work. So I'm going to go back here again. Externally, rotate. Stop me here. Now you're good. So now it's cool. This leg, it turns in no matter what I do to you.

So you just figured out that that right leg ground reaction force dysfunction is related to T spine mobility and flexion? Yep.

So your internal rotation issue for you, not everybody was T spine.

Interesting.

So it's like we're all the same, but yet you have to customize it because you've. You got a different set of DNA, different circumstances, different life, different choices. You have your own unique story, so it just draws out your story. So I think with the stuff, what we're doing is it's a. Like a reverse chronology.

And you're going to tell me what to do to fix my T Spine issue.

You just fixed it, dude.

Really?

It's all we're changing because we're doing is changing perception. We're not trying to change the hardware. We're trying to change the software. Yeah. So we give you a better program to run every time you take a step. Every exercise you do. You're reinforcing software, not the hardware. That's what we're doing. So we're indirectly, maybe affecting, you know, tissue, or we're directly affecting software, but specifically perception that you're having or subconscious perception you're having on the ground.

Got it.

So all of us are working harder.

Than we have to. Cool.

So right now I tell people, like, all right, I could be the patient person and stand here and twiddle my thumbs and wait for you to compensate, but that just takes way too long. And you and I are both busy guys, and we want to. We go through some stuff. So what I'm going to do is we're going to run some different patterns past your body and what's breaking you down that you know. Okay. So the most common starting point, I go with. I usually people, we're going to just kind of put a little bit of force on your ribs, and that way you give me a mouth breath. So we'll do a little sympathetic rest.

Just breathe in.

Yep. One, one. Inhale, exhale.

And then I can say, hey, that's bad for your nervous system. That's good. Like, that's just me speaking stuff into. Exactly. Resistance. I'm gonna check your leg if I know what happened. So why. Why guess if you can test externally. Rotate and stop me here. Right. So your brain perceived that little activity as a threat. So we go back to the drawing board. We'll go back to square one.

You need to perceive that breath as a threat. Yep.

So that external load on your ribs with the mouth breath combo. Yep.

Okay.

So I just shoved your left ankle end dorsiflexion. We got strong again.

Like, reset the strength of that right leg. Every time you put my left leg in the dorsiflexion, my right leg is stronger, but in teeth by inflection. And also with that chest breath that got weaker.

That was. That was. That's rearview mirror, baby. That's already gone. We already passed that. Which is awesome, because once I tell people the brain doesn't want to go the long way around the barn, it does so because it thinks it has to.

Yeah.

You already neutralized that specific. Right. That's going. So what we're going to do is we're going to draw deeper and deeper garbage. So where I shove that left ankle back.

All my garbage.

Yep, all your garbage. Everybody's got garbage. Externally rotate and stop me. So go with left step. I hit right step. Watch what happens externally. Rotate. Okay, so we got back in that. Yep. What's really cool is. And this is kind of like the beginning of muscle testing. What's really cool is I need to check your internal rotation. Because if it's. Do you know, turn on, turn off, it's one thing. But check it out. Your leg turns in.

Right.

So this is.

My right leg turns in just as much of my left turn right now.

Right. So even though you got you back into a slightly weird status. Right. So that's not just a trick. Like there's a lot of things out there with temporary electric nervous system, but we're actually making a true restoration process here. Can you show that again so I.

Can get on a story?

Yeah, I didn't need more tape. Dude, I'm like falling apart here. All right. It's like falling off me when I leave.

Take your time. Grab. Grab some more duct tape. Getting taped up. Yeah, I mean, it's like I want this man to be comfortable.

There you go. Yep.

Weekend. James, my audio editor can just edit. Edit this stuff out. And.

I'm trying to think if there's any other tape to spare the duct tape. But I mean, I can take one around duct tape.

We'll just have Sean go share this. Yeah, that's. That's good.

Totally can.

That'll go on a certain specific audience.

They're like, who's in the.

Like, anything goes. Like if it's easier for him to rip off his shirt and you would tape it to his chest.

I like this bear. It's going to be awesome to look.

At the video and watch how the duct tape progresses.

All of a sudden, my talking hole in my eye needs to be covered.

Hold on. You're not ready.

Ben, I have a lot of videos.

Already on your thing, so feel free to go back. And you're just posting to the story cuz it only does a minute. Yeah. So I'm like, I'll leave it up and go. Just post however you want to do it.

Oh yeah.

And I'm like, you can go back and. Yeah, delete them.

Works needed.

Yeah, I'd say primarily just post them to the story. That way they're just up as we're going.

Exactly.

Yeah.

If I was just standing upright, be okay. That's when I lean forward, ripping away A little bit. All right. Only not ready. Okay.

Never have enough duct tape. Be like a weighted vest soon.

Stop the mouth breathing.

So right now, for those of you listening in, we're taking a quick break so that Adam can duct tape Sean's receiver to his chest. Again, these are a bunch of Fitness dudes MacGyvering a podcast for y'.

All.

But basically, basically what we're getting some extra duct tape. We're turning Sean into it. Just, like, maybe see what the weight is best here using half roll of duct tape on his chest. So we got. We got sidelined just a little bit, but I figured I'd open the kimono for those of you listening, so you know what we're up to. All right, so. So you brought me an internal rotation. My right leg internally rotated just as.

Much as my left.

Right.

Even wasn't doing before. Right. Even when we have in this kind of, like, you know, quote unquote weakened status, we go back here, turn it on. So, you know, there's. There's give, but yet we still have that mobility.

Yep.

So I love to show people we got you more organized by a degree of one, because we've only cleared out one reason you have to compensate.

Okay.

We're now playing around, monkeying around here with level two.

So again, we got left foot going back. You're cool. Right foot, not so cool. Our last issue we found in you was your T spline. So go ahead and tap your T spine. I'm gonna see if the next issue.

Is tap my chest like this.

Yep. You touch.

Tap it just like that. Okay.

Do I hold my hand there? You can, yeah. And how about stopping with this right leg?

Okay.

All right, so issue number two is not in the T spine.

How about touch your neck, Please touch my neck. The back or the front of it?

Front's great. Big external rotation. All right, so going backwards through your history, the most recent issue was in the T swine. Now we're finding there's something going on in the neck. So we have four options here to check. So you can let go with a touch, but go ahead and turn it your head to the right for me, please. Big external rotation and stop me here. Perfect. So one for four. You're good. Guess. Number two is keep looking right and pick your head off the ground for me and stop me here. All right. I had three guesses. I was wrong. I love to show people how bad of a guesser I am.

Right.

Well, this isn't science, because you know what's going to happen like, no, I don't. Cuz every time I do something to you and you're strong, I was wrong. So I'm looking for the flaw.

Yep.

I haven't found it yet.

That makes sense.

Yep. And then turn right and smush your.

Turn my head to the right.

Yep. And then smush your right ear into the ground for me.

Like that?

Yep. Like cervical extension. And stop here. There's your guy. So we found cervical extensions.

You want to drive that. That head into the ground. Cervically extend. The right leg's weak again.

Yeah. Your brain's like, I don't like this. And the things it doesn't like and feels threatened by, it has to work around. So it doesn't mean you don't get to walk again. It just means you have an altered version of walking. Right. So have your neck straight and our intervention will be.

You can go.

Yep.

Neutral.

And just lightly press your head into the ground. So we're going to engage those Cerberus.

Yep.

Just give you a little neural, you know, motor drive into the cervical extensors. And we'll have to take a break. Remember, again, this was solid left dorsiflexion. I'm going to go back to our reference point, find out how we're doing when I shove you into the disorganized pattern. And now you're organized.

Okay.

Right. Two layers in, I'm going to keep messing with you. I'm going to touch your rims.

Yep.

And then all I want to do is give me a mouth breath again.

So that's an event. I have no idea if that. If your brain perceived as a threat or safe. We'll check your leg.

Okay.

So I don't want to speak anything to existence. We'll just read the story. Dude, you're great. So now you, you graduated from a white belt to like a beige belt.

Right.

You can lay here and breathe through your mouth and. Yep. Piece of cake. Let's get you standing up and do a body weight squat.

Okay. Bodyweight squat. Yep.

All human beings, grandma. To pro athletes, we need to be able to breathe in our mouth and out of our nose.

We need to go straight, straight down. Just hold it or just, just kind.

Of come right back up.

Okay.

On your back.

Okay.

I love showing people how these basic, seemingly simple patterns kind of cause a problem for you. Right, Right. You're an active guy. You know, squatting all the time. So we can try to make movement outcomes better through practice. Rehearsal motor learning. We also have this motor control thing. It's like the software that runs the whole system. So what we're trying to do, we're going to try to just tighten that up. The answer is, hey, let's do some more squats like you've squatted before. That's not going to fix it. If that had already fixed it, that would not have screwed it through.

Yeah, you've already prepared in that manner.

So we go back here again and stop me. We're good. Then we're going to map it out again. Here's left stage step. Find out what happens. So this time we got a fail there. And I go right step. Right, got it. So now we're gonna chase after we call right step. Okay, so we're looking in and then right step for the deficiency, the neuromuscular deficiency. Go touch your neck for me again, Ben.

Right.

Big external rotation. Stop me here. All right, so now we're issue three back in the neck. We're gonna do the opposite. Turn to the left now, because we.

Have an opposite neck to the left.

Yep. And then I'm gonna stop me here. There's your next issue. So I want you to lightly keep turning your head through the invisible wall. So gentle contraction.

Okay?

Three, two. Take a break. Check our work, which is you go neutral neck. I'm going to shove you into the quote unquote, bad pattern, or the most recent bad pattern, if that's such a thing. And you're good. So keep the show going. Have you squat again.

My job isn't to make you squat better. My job is to make it where when you do these things, your brain's like, I got this. Taking a stride. So just increasing neural resilience. How about laying on your back?

Big external rotation.

Still a little bit of a puzzle that the brain hasn't solved efficiently. Left step, soft, solid. Right dorsiflexion. The right step. There's our fail. So we're back to a left step scenario. Go touch your neck for me.

Okay.

And stop me here. Beautiful. How about a chest tap or touch here? Beautiful. Go ahead and touch your chin for me, please. Okay.

Now we're going to go to your jaw. So what we're gonna do here is open wide with the jaw.

Open wide. Okay.

Like, one second. Looks good. And we'll check your leg. Cut and clench your jaw for me.

That blew us out. So I want to do a isometric jaw clench for about three seconds.

Okay, Ready?

Yep. One, two, three.

Jaw workout.

Yeah, I check the bad pattern. He's good. Savvy squat again. Okay, so we just Keep exposing you to the pattern that's provoking until it's under. Under control.

And it'll happen as this clears. We're going more and more complicated for you.

What's cool to me is, like, when I show clients, like, man, it's just so amazing to me how that is blowing you out. Yeah, healthy guy, you've done all this stuff, but there's something about that. Your brain's like, not so good. I mean, it's not surprising because I've never actually had anybody pass that the first time. Right, right. So two exposures.

Wait, past what, when you squat?

It doesn't matter. Mess you up.

Yeah, okay, temporarily, but you did it.

The first two times. It kind of created a little, little chink in the armor. Third time, you're good to go. So let's, let's keep climbing this ladder. We'll have you stand back up.

Okay.

Have you perform the same deal. But I want you to close your eyes.

We're going to rob you of closed eye squat.

Yep.

Okay, ready?

Yep. So they estimate 70 to 80% of being upright is visual. So now you got to rely upon somatosensation and vestibular inputs.

Okay, let's go.

Check you on the table.

Okay, close eyes.

Yep. Close that squat. See what happens externally. Rotate. There we go. See that feed? Left step. There's a fail feed. Right step. You're organized. So we're gonna try to find out what's going on with this. Right step. There's something missing. Go. Touch your chin again, please. Okay, touch the chin right here. Touch your neck for me. All right, so we're back to right Step in the neck. Blew you out. Turn your head to the left.

Good.

Stop me here. Good. Keep looking left, but pick your head off the ground. Please stop me here. So cervical flexion, so you can go straight neck and neutral. So you come back to home base and just pick your head off the ground for about two or three seconds and take a break. And then our proof is to feed the opposite pattern. You're good. Blind squat kit. So just trigger and reorganize.

We call this a visually challenged squash.

Visually challenged squat.

There we go.

Perfect.

Let's say PC in this.

Big external rotation called the Helen Color squad. The helicopter squad.

Yes. Perfect upset folks. Oops, I just did that.

Oh, so funny. One of my clients said, hey, don't say anything like, too, like, controversial when you go there. How about we just be real people.

And whatever, man, my, my shows, my podcast, me just shooting with friends and learning from Amazing people. And then a bunch of folks are flies on the wall with. I think the cool thing being people can go in and comment, leave questions and generate discussion.

I love it.

Yeah. But no, I. I always watch my podcast is just like shooting. Shoot with some buddies.

I love it. I love it. Hey, so your. Your Helen Keller squat was cool.

Okay.

All right, so let's mess with. Let's get you back up. Okay. So this time we can about go to bottom of squat. You keep your eyes open, do a little eye conversion. So you're going to follow my fingertip.

Okay. While I'm at the bottom of the spot.

Hold me like three seconds. See my finger? I'm just going to go in and out, get you over here on the table.

Okay.

So it's creating these challenges. So if this stuff doesn't throw the brain off, like, okay, cool. There's less reasons that it has to be inefficient.

Makes sense.

Okay, right here. Dude. Awesome. Have you stand back up so you get more resilience. Getting harder and harder to screw with you, dude. So let's go. How about stand on one foot?

Okay.

And then close your eyes, if that's easy. All right, that's good. Let's catch on your bag.

So it's really just a matter of setting up puzzles for your brain to solve. Yeah, that's what life is. Prime answer. So when I feed left step, your body's like, okay, I'm organized. I'm gonna go right step. Your nervous system's like, hey, I'm disorganized. Go ahead and tap your neck for me. Or touch your neck.

Okay, perfect.

And then how about touch your chest?

Okay.

All right. So we're just pulling out your history. So, you know, it's like you might be too young to remember Simon. Remember that little game back in the 70s? Simons. Simons.

I wasn't even born in the 70s.

Yeah, so you're 80s. So there's different. Probably out of vogue by about 79, 80. Yeah, it was like, oh, the blue light goes. So you hit the blue. That's blue, red, blue, red, blue, red, green. It's like this whole sequence. Yeah, but your sequence, you know, this is really. This is for the old farts, like 48 and up. We're listening. The most recent reason you had to compensate was T spine, and it was your neck. And then it was, I think another neck, and I think it was jaw the neck and back in the T spine. So we're just retracing your history. So but about five or ten layers down. I'm like, I don't know what you cleared, man. We're just clearing stuff. So all you do is give me a big chest.

Big chest. What do you mean?

Thoracic extension. Chest to the sky. And a break. Show me this. Perfect. Give me that crunch again. Head and shoulders off the ground.

And a break.

All right. Crunch and hold.

Crunch and hold.

Yep. Three, two, one. Take a break. Check our work. You're solid. Have you stand up. Single leg, blind. Same leg, Same leg.

Okay. I like to do close eyes. Yep.

Whoa. It's crazy, right? Hard. There's a vestibular challenge, man. Visual challenge.

Yeah.

On your back.

Muppet.

Right leg. Is my eyes closed right here. Okay.

Stop moving. Now. What's cool about that is you. You perform that little skill. A little wonky. You lay on your table, you're fine. So all that tells us is that's just a skill that you haven't practiced. Doesn't mean you need to practice it.

I mean, right, like eye close thing.

Yeah, but it's like, right now, it's not. It's not throwing the brain off. So I'm okay with it. So I'm gonna just take it to something else. Let's do. We do different things for your audience. We can throw all kinds of stuff. We can mess with mental triggers. So, you know, our nervous system does not or cannot distinguish between different types of stress. Mechanical, emotional, thermal, nutritional, chemical. It just knows, like. Yep. Either safe or threat. Okay, so as you're laying here, I'll just check your leg for a sec.

Okay.

Just make sure we're in a good place. I'm gonna cock your left foot back.

You're good.

Cock that foot back. Beautiful. I want you to think about if I just said fear. You don't need to verbalize what it is. If I just said fear, whatever that is for you. Dwell on, don't dwell on it, but just think of it for about two seconds.

Yeah.

All right. And then you turn out here. We robbed you of neurological resources. But then think about if I said, like, love focusing in for, like, two seconds.

Solid. Holy cow. It's amazing, right?

So, like, all the stuff that you monkey with and tinker with, it's kind.

Of interesting when you say fear the first thing, because sometimes I'll form, like, immediate statements. Like, when you said fear, it was fear of losing control because I'm a control freak. And then when you said love, like, immediately my wife and my twin side sons came, like, it's awesome. Like, pouring in the imagery in my head.

Right. And they think things like blue zones. People like, okay, yeah. They live in these places that are whatever. That food.

Yeah.

But a big part of it is like family and loved ones.

Yeah.

It's huge.

Yeah.

I mean, so that's just that little. Everybody's, you know, you're my next lab rat. Everybody's a lab rat. Just like you're. You're your own lab rat. You're always messing around with yourself. But these are things we've checked.

I like to think of myself as a yeast or fruit fly more than a lab rat.

But thank go a little bit more modern.

Yeah.

Interpretation of the analogy. Right. So then what we'll do is like sometimes we'll. I'll use this with like a baseball player.

Yeah.

And we'll put them in mental situations where they fail your pitcher. It's three, two, count the other team's tiny runs on third. And you deliver pitch. Home run. Okay. So I don't want them to dwell and make that happen. To like try to create that happen. But I'm like, negative things are going to happen. I need to bring nervous systems handle. Or when they break down because the game keeps going.

Got it.

You know, I mean, so I'm like, yeah, on your own, you can think of all the positive things you want. My job is to make it so when the bad and the negative creeps in your physiology can start before make sense. Good man. So how about think of fear for one sec. I want to check clear fear. That specific fear as a trigger. Big external rotation. It's not me here. All right, so now I'm gonna cock the foot back on the right side. Solid left side. Okay, now that's cool. So we talked earlier about up, down, right, left. I've only been checking locomotion on you. Right versus left. You thought of fear made you fail. Right step organized. Left step organized. The problem right now is not locomotion. It's in the squat upright posture.

Right. So we're gonna check on that. That's what that upright posture is. What seems to be triggering the weakness in that left or right external.

Right now presently. Yep, exactly. So when clench your jaw. Okay. This one right here. So there's our pronation. Solid. Open your jaw wide right here. There's a fail.

Yep.

So we're going to feed the strong. We're actually going to look for the strong. We're looking for issue and pollination and your axial skeleton rise to your tail.

Okay.

So head to neutral eyeballs look down towards your toes here Stop if you can. You got it. And tuck your chin into your throat. So capitis or head flexion? Beautiful. Head off the ground. Stop here. Good. Shoulder blades off the ground for a second. Go right back down. We'll check in neutral. Good. How about abs? Tight, back flat on the ground. Take a break.

Boom. Lumbar flexion is the next little missing piece. So you're going to just contract, create a little tension there for three, two, break. Prove our work. Give me that big open mouth. You got it. I mean, back to the trigger of fear. Let's go with the same thought. You know, the control thing and then a break.

All right, so let's play on that. Because say your control freak think along with fear, but just say it really got out of hand. Like someone comes in, like, no, I'm gonna take that for me, Ben. I got that. Just like, oh, you're gonna screw it up or whatever it is. So just really amp that up. Like, I don't know, your project you're on, and one of. One of the twins comes in and.

Throws you off.

Right? Okay.

All right.

Got it.

So right now, that thought of control, like, hey, that's. That's your personal thing you can work with. But I love right now is when you, when that creeps in your nervous.

System, all of a sudden my right leg's strong.

Yeah, you're fine right now with that. So we can, we. All we can do is we can customize all the triggers for you, the individual. Right. So a lot of times in the first session, people trying to clear up breath and squatting and depends on person. If someone comes in, they're 70 years old and they've had 14 surgeries, that might keep you busy for an hour.

Yeah.

Right. Healthy guy like you, we got through that stuff quick.

Yeah.

So we can start getting more and more and more into the things you want to be able to do and need to be able to do. So how about different drills you do? Like you, I know you do all kinds of like self preservation things. So whether it's a pilates pose or yoga pose or there's certain little resets, like physical things you do. Let's check those. Make sure that your brain is getting mobility zone.

Okay.

So if you hug your knee into your chest or I don't know what you do. Okay, so things that you do on a daily basis, that's probably some kind.

Of a stretch or something that I do on the regular.

Yeah, let's do that.

All right. Off the table.

On the table.

Does it matter?

Doesn't matter me. Whatever you want to do.

So let's do. Geez. I mean, like, one thing that I'll do sometimes during the day is I'll, like, go like that and like that. Kind of touching my right elbow to my left knee.

Love it.

My left elbow to my right. Love it. I like to take little breaks during my workday and do that just to kind of keep the left and right hemispheres of the brain connected. I love it.

And we'll go right here.

That's my theory, at least.

Yeah, well, it's. It's a good theory and big external rotation. But your brain right now says, oh, I'm not so sure about that now. The message isn't, hey, you better stop. That's bad for you. The message is like, hey, let's just keep your brain a little help so that it can get all the goodies out of it. Right. It just challenges a little bit. So I'm just going to cock your right foot back. We're going to map it out. Righty, great. Lefty, great. So we're gonna go back to upright, you know, up and down kind of deal. So go ahead and clench your jaw.

Open wide. So the next little organizational flaw is inflection again. So we'll have to go eyes down.

Chin tuck down, head off the ground.

Head off the ground just to maintain.

That posture for three, two. Take a break. Open jaw. I mean, stand up. Elbow to knee or. Yeah, elbow to knee.

Okay. Also stand up, do that same move.

So I'm going to clear this for you. And now what's cool, too, is whether this clears after one or five exposures. If I were to check you in two months, six months, this shouldn't trigger you. Okay. Which is really cool. That. That's one. We've experimented with a lot of people. I want to see how long the effect is. It's really more a matter of just exposing you to everything. Check you along the way.

Okay.

And. And just make sure that it's clear. But usually these exposures, once it's in. In the clear, it stays that way.

For months and something. Okay.

It's so cool how the brain is, man.

Duct. Duct tape. Get that duct tape.

Boom, boom, boom.

Big, big role. Handy for you guys.

So we won't get better equipment, we'll just get more ducted.

Yeah, exactly.

I think we owe you.

Well, yeah, just, just, just don't hold it again. Send me your credit card. I'll take care of it.

Turn out, we're here, buddy. Turn it out. Thanks.

Bitcoin.

Can you do that same pattern again? Because sometimes we don't capture the moment. I'm gonna have to do that elbow to knee thing again.

Okay.

Because the body and the brain will self regulate. And we found that if we don't get capture that moment, some muscle testing and some patterning, we lose that moment. Let's check it here. I don't want to skip something.

You're doing great to do the duct tape. Exactly.

Big turn here. Well, now you're, you're rocking. Is there any other things like that you do? I mean, you're doing all kinds of stuff.

Oh, I mean, yeah. I mean, check them all sorts of little moves. Check them all.

A bunch of them. Yeah. You got 150 of them.

All right, let's see. Do. So another thing that I, I'll do sometimes during the day is like I'll crank out a few push ups.

Yep, perfect.

Okay.

Yep.

All right. Just do like a few push ups here.

Sure, yeah. Two, three, whatever. And this next test, we'll test you upright. So we'll get off the table.

Okay.

You kind of stand up and face me.

Okay.

And what we're going to do with this right arm, any, any issues with the shoulder?

No.

A little bit higher than 90. Going to internally rotate. I'm going to go right here the first time here. Now what's cool if I go here, I can go really hard. Shorter lever. One arm right here. Turn left. Right here. So we can map it right here. Eyes up. So you look up the sky.

Nice.

Eyes down here. So up organizes down. Right. So we want to do is organize up. So on a table, we're going down to the journey action level. So now we're going to go recent discovery. We don't even need to go over that level. It's nice to customize it to get some detail what's going on with the person. But we can just organize the pattern.

Okay.

So right now we want to work on up. So we're going to sync up nasal breath. So it'll be parasympathetic breath with vestibular influence. So aim the cervical extension and breathe through your nose.

Neutral, eyes down. Remember how that was disorganizing? That's our proof right here.

Yep. It's the same thing. It's a streamlined version. So this is actually going to be. We've been teaching this for. Since 2011. 2012.

2012.

This is gonna be part of new courses here we have the streamline stuff.

So you're gonna teach like trainers and.

Well, We've been teaching this. So we have people out there who.

Use the system how to do this. Yeah.

But now we got a streamlined version because now instead of just learning muscle testing, testing, or I should say instead of having to learn the muscle testing in the system and all the joint actions, that's all. It's a lot for people to chomp on exposure. We're now just going to teach them the muscle test, the system and this form right here, we don't need to go to joint action. We can just go to the cervical and kind of get the vestibular and the breathing.

If somebody doesn't have a background of personal training or biomechanics or something like that and they go and try to learn of stuff, are they still going to be able to wrap their head around it?

They are, because we actually represent it in a way that we're assuming they knew nothing. Okay. So we've actually had clients that are like housewives or history teachers.

No, we'll teach them all that stuff. And then we also, as of last week, I've been hesitant to. I've been wanting to get like a self administered version. And what's been holding me back is this muscle test. Because it's hard to test yourself.

Yeah.

But I'm going to experiment with that last 10 days.

And we figure a way to teach people how to test themselves. Yeah. So we're not surprised to eat somebody on hand.

Exactly. And it's just not that nice if.

You do it yourself. Yeah.

Right. So we're actually going to progress this whole thing to that. So we went the long way around the barn or not the long way. We went the all the details, all the side streets on all the detail. Now we're doing a little bit more, more general. And once this really clicks with you, then I'm going to teach you how to test yourself so you can kind of keep carrying on the work after we're out of here. Okay, so let's have you do a push up or 3 as the next exposure.

A push up or 3?

Yeah, A or 3.

Okay. And then we're just go back and check your arm.

Okay.

Turn them in. Yep.

Awesome, dude, awesome.

What else do you do?

Waist start. Yeah.

So all we're gonna do is like think about when you're doing your workout. So if it's one thing, if you're doing some kind of circuit with one after another, but if there's a little downtime. Dude. I want to show you how to check yourself yourself in between sets. So you have that vibelate up there. You probably put that in your circuit.

Yeah.

You might want to string some of this. And, like, how am I doing?

Right.

And then if, like, you did three exercises and you kind of lost it, you can then, like, kind of figure out which of the three is it. Two of the three. And then it says, hey, I gotta avoid. That's a bad exercise for me. Like, I'm not gonna catch your nervous system.

Yeah.

So how about another drill? Another exercise?

A lot. A lot of times I'll do, like, this kind of stretch. Like, if my hip flexors tight during the day and it kind of works my balance a little bit, I'll get down like this.

Yeah. Kind of like a quad stretch, almost like a standing version. Like, you know, Kelly starts couch stretch type of thing. Yeah, See, I'll do something like that.

Perfect. Now go ahead and face me. Let's check that right arm.

Okay.

And turn on the rotate.

Yes, sir. Eyes up.

Okay.

Good. Eyes down.

So there's disorganized. We don't want to feed that. We want to feed the organizing pattern. So eyes up correlates with cervical extension. So neck back or head back? Nasal breath.

Okay.

Gotta do just one big inhale, exhale through the nose. So that's the intervention.

Right.

So what's cool is you're going in through your nose, out through the mouth. This is great because it's another test, so we've actually been playing with it lately. We start off with two nasal breaths. That was working with to one, and we've been messing with these adjusted inhale. So it seems like the inhale has to go through the nose and not the exhale. So go eyes down.

Got it. Do quad rdl.

Do that stretch again.

Yep. Just want to make sure that it's clear. If it's not, we'll just kind of.

Hang out both sides like I did before.

Yep. Mimic same circumstances. It's like any experiment has, like, 8 billion variables. We want to try to control as best we can. Okay, we'll do this guy.

And what I'm gonna do in the next one. Same thing. We'll just do the first side. Because a lot of times when we do this test, it's just gonna pick up the last thing you did.

Okay.

So let's just get the first one and check it just to be thorough and dot our eyes across our T's.

So just find something else. Lunge, or you turn your head, or you're doing kind of visual balance, whatever.

Okay, let's try another one. That I'll do a lot, like for breaks during the day is all. Trying to do like some tai chi esque, slapping up and down the body side to side like this.

Love it.

He's our breath as you do it.

Like, love it. Check it.

Okay.

Love it. See what happens. That's what's fun for me is like, I go into a situation, I'm kind of open minded because I'm not rooting for that to be good or bad for you or a threat or safety. I'm just here to read it.

Okay.

And I'm not gonna say, hey, Ben, stop doing that again. My job is that. Let's clear this. Your nervous system gets all the goodies out of that, not just some of the goodies. So how we go?

Eyes up.

Beautiful. Eyes down. So we have organized and disorganized.

Right?

But remember, on a table, shoving a foot back, we're gonna check right and left while you're upright.

Okay.

So shoving your left foot back to check left step. Shoving right to do this. But we can check it through the eyes. So head still. Eyes.

Eyes right.

So right now eyes right are a little weaker.

Yeah. So up and left. Organize down and right.

Right.

So we could drill the heck out of left. Up and up. Like. No, let's just get synced up with the neck or the vestibular system and. And then the nasal breath. So we've already shown you up. Let's head back and nasal breath. But if we want to kind of reset eyes left, what we need to do is we need to do two things. So I want you to lean your left over your left shoulder. Nasal breath in and out.

Turn your head to the right and leans a breath. Because these are joint action responsibilities that occur during what we call left. Take a break. So we'll prove our work. So when we're down and right, we're disorganized. Let's check down.

So just reorganizing the nervous restaurant vestibular. Yeah, visual. And that's. That's breathing, man. Breathing is expansion, supination.

Right.

You know, exhale, right. Pronation.

Okay.

So we get that synced up with breath and vestibular positions. Life's pretty good. Yeah. So what was the message? You did your slap and your tai chi? Yeah, probably. Let's have you do that again.

Which one? Like the. The twisting and sleep slapping?

Yep. All your most popular things you do all the time. Let's make sure the nervous system says, hey, baby, this is great jacket.

All right.

So fun rocking, man. So what's Cool with you is everything's only triggering one or two times?

Yeah.

Probably a lot healthier than the average body's.

Learning fast. It is, man.

It's just getting a little help.

Ate my salmon this morning.

Salmon.

My DHA flowing.

We could do. We could actually, we could check and said before about subs. You can check items of food like.

Supplements, stuff like that.

Yeah. Not that we have to do it right now, but you can. You can check anything.

Yeah.

I. I like driving it towards movement because, like, I don't have people coming in. I'm like, I'm not a therapist.

Yeah. I could see a great deal of efficacy for this, especially for either a chronic repetitive motion athlete.

Yes.

Or. Or like, like you mentioned a baseball pitcher, tennis racket. Any. Because then, like, let's say it was tennis. Because I like to play tennis actually occasionally. And as much as I sure love to, but, you know, so you. You test somebody like swinging a forehand.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But even without a racket here, we could do stuff like, you know what happens in tennis. You're laying on one side. You can do that right here. I mean, watch the rocks here in the bottom of your feet. We got tough feet. Let's have you kind of just land on one foot. Just like decelerating. Boom. Check your arm.

Okay.

I don't want to assume anything. It looks easy, but I don't really know what you bring about it.

Okay.

Beautiful. How about land and deselerate on the right light.

Okay.

Right foot. Cool. I'll check it.

An animal, most things in a first session, first exposure, it triggers. So you're rocking, man. Like only about two out of three things I'm throwing. Okay. So you could do like. Like a ground stroke.

Okay. Try. Try to, like, mirror a tennis stroke.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, then do another one.

Go maybe 50 to 80. Like a little harder. Yeah. Do another one even harder. Check your arm. Yep.

So that's just a little bit. We turned it up to 11. You can handle 10, but 11 is a little too much. So we go eyes up. I just have this hand here to stabilize. Beautiful. Eyes down. So we got up, down. Let's go right, left. Check these guys out.

So now right and up. Organizing. Here's our disorganization.

Organizing.

We're gonna come back and check those after we organize either right or up. We want to organize up. Let's go ahead. Back and nasal breath. If we get up, down, organized. Right. Left usually comes along for the party.

Neutral neck. And we'll check down.

I think this left was Found. So let's go left. We'll go head neutral. Just.

Yeah, Eyes left.

Yep, got it. So your ground stroke, 50 to 80. Effort might medium to hard.

Let's check it.

How about a backhand?

Okay.

Two hand backhand.

Two hand.

Yep.

I'm a two hander, baby. And a one hand slicer.

Check it.

Okay. That's fun.

We do about slicing. We have a pretty good with golfers. Like, just bring your whole bag of clubs. Different shaft length, different weight. They have a unique response to every one of their. Their. Through every one of their clubs.

Yeah. Adam's making. Making symbols out of sweats.

We don't speak sign language.

What are you saying?

Serve.

Try, serve. Okay.

Oh, serving. Okay.

All right.

Ready?

Charades.

Yeah. Got it. I thought you said surfing like that. Surfing. Surfing. Yeah. Different pattern, different response. We gotta go up, down, right, left. Your arm's doing okay with all the repetitive. Yeah, that's one of the drawbacks. I might switch it up.

I took my creatine this morning, bro.

Yeah, you're ready to roll. We got tomorrow. Sides of the swollen lefty. Not so much left or right. Eyeballs, either way. Eyes right. Organized. Solid. Solid. Go up and down. So there was no option to correct here. We have to find out. Positive, negative here. So either up or down.

Eyes up only.

Yep. And eyes down, just to make sure. So disorganized. Organized. That's our only option. Head back, nasal breath.

Check these.

Corrective exercises.

Yeah. So easy. And what's cool is I like what some of this new stuff I've been playing with is the application for everybody now.

Yeah.

If you don't even want to learn how to muscle test, something you do really simple throughout the day. Head back, nasal breath. Head forward, nasal breath.

Okay.

Because now we're organizing upright posture.

Let me ask you a question, because I know if I'm wondering it, a lot of other people are going to be wondering it too. So let's say that you do the corrective exercise that involves, say, like, tipping the head back, taking a deep breath in. So we're correcting cervical extension. Is there something going on from either a neurochemical or a nervous system standpoint that you suspect would be then causing that to fly? Fix the movement that I just finished before. Just something as simple as, like a cervical extension of the breath.

So are you asking what is the neurochemical relationship?

Yeah. Yeah.

Do you.

Could you explain at all, like. Or theorize what's going on?

The only theory I would have, and it's again, it's above my pay grade. I was reading one time or I was watching a video on YouTube and it was kind of neuroscience. And they're talking about when synapses are formed. We have all the reward chemicals, dopamine and melatonin, serotonin, all those things are spiked up. And that got my attention because a common report that people come back and share with me after a session is they usually find me because of knee pain. And usually the first or second session, that knee pain is either gone or it's greatly improved. But a common thing they tell me is like, I don't know what you're doing, but I'm sleeping better.

Yeah.

So it makes me wonder if what we're doing is actually making these connections again that were already there. They get lost along the way and that those synapses are forming and there's like this chemical release. But I don't know if that's answering your question. I don't know if that's accurate. Yeah, it seems plausible. It kind of fits.

Yeah, it does seem. It does seem plausible. I was thinking about perhaps like the vagus nerve potentially playing a role as well. People have asked about that with the cranial nerves.

Yeah.

The movement of the eyes.

Anything about the cranial nerves. And then there's something in chiropractic called. Love it, brother reaction. What happens at the neck happens at the sacrum.

Yep.

So if we're getting that stuff just like synced up a little better, there could be something going on there.

So here's a question for you. I get knee pain when I descend stairs or when I walk downhill. So if I like walked down these stairs right here.

Perfect.

We can do a test with that.

Do that every session with people.

That's a common question.

All right, so a lot of back, hip and knees are probably the three most common.

Just walk down these stairs. Yep. Okay.

And then we'll just check your arm.

Yeah.

Internally rotate so you can land single leg like we did earlier. Steps are right now.

Yep.

Did you feel symptom as you did that or. Not so much yet.

I felt a little bit.

So let's go eyes up.

Eyes down. Let's organize that. So head forward. Nasal weaker with.

So now I go head forward. That makes sense.

Y. Yep. Cuz we went eyes up. We had that disorganizing response and we. And eyes down. It was organized. So when we go neutral, we'll go eyes up to check her work. Beautiful. Have you descend the stairs again.

But this is exactly it. We find out what is pain provoking. There's a lot of times a. Like a second session deal. I'm trying to clear out this generic trigger, like getting out of chairs, breathing. And then we kind of customize it late in the first session. A lot of times in the second session, like what hurts this person? Like so pain provoking. We can go and do like I would call them the baby patterns. Developmental patterns. You can bring anything incorporated into this. You can do like massage, you can do foam rolling. Just as inputs in the system. Just monitor how. Yeah. Eyes up.

All right. So organized. Organized. Uhhuh. So now we got to look right.

Organized. Up and down. Okay. So now we organize right, Left, eyes right.

Disorganized. Organized.

Now I look to the right and breathe in. Or no, this would be. Yeah, yeah, very good then.

Yep. And there's a second one too.

So there's our transverse plane piece. And then you look straight at me left, your left shoulder. So you lean into the strength as well in the frontal plane and nasal breath here.

So it's a lot of times ch. And up and down. Cuz it's one exercise, this is two and I'm so Let's go, let's go. I'm going to eyes right. Yes sir. S. Well, getting them down and we might clear this. And the nervous system is okay. And you may or may not have a change in your pain because I'm that tissue interventionist.

Right.

Organizer and stuff cartilage or mixing movements.

Exactly.

Yeah. But then we have these crazy stories of people who have like. Like live real time L5 fracture or pain. Yeah, we get the stuff organized, their pain's gone.

Wow.

Like guys, be careful because structurally you're not right. But we got you so organized that pain's such a huge piece that sits tied to the brain and we don't.

Got it. That's a good trigger bud. Eyes up, eyes down. Right or left, you're organized. Up and down. Organize right.

So eyes left, which is lean left and turn right. So left ear to left shoulder or. Yep. Either way. Either way the order doesn't matter.

Okay.

As long as you get them in sequence. You know, right. You know, right. Lean left lane, right turn left lane. Good. Left ear, left shoulder over.

Go eyes right to check the was just recently disorganized. Disorganized stairwell.

Okay.

So it all comes down to trigger or train. You throw a pattern at a person. If they accept it, we can now train it. If it triggers you like. No, no, no. We can't progress yet until we get.

This out of control. Right.

Do that all right. Have you do another one. One.

I just want to send the stairs again.

Yep. Because you're organized. I just want to like, kind of interview you. What's it feel like? Is it same, better, or worse?

I would say a little better. Maybe a little better than six only descending three stairs, but yeah, right. Subjectively, I'd say a little better.

So as long as not if the pain was the same or better, I might say, hey, you know what? We can train this now because it's not disorganizing you now if we add more volume and it's starts irritating pain. Like, you know what? I don't have X ray eyeballs or Mr. Eyeballs, but if you're open to it, I think we should do your whole flight and just see something once it's clear.

So go, go down here and just send a whole flight of stairs.

Yep. So that we'll have like motor learning on top of software.

All right.

Stop for a second here and wet my whistle.

Yep, yep.

James, you can cut pauses like this and stuff out.

If there are long, awkward pauses or. Or pouches. All right.

Okay. So I'm standing at the top of the stairs. Longer staircase. You want to just descend the stairs?

Yep. And we'll see how the software handled it and also what it feels like, especially after I check your software. So I like to get that blind information first.

Software is cool with it. Same, better or worse? And I always tell don't worry about my feelings.

I'm not saying better, worse, descending. Yeah, tough to say because that was the first time I descended.

Do it again because again, as long as the software is together and it's not getting worse, I feel comfortable progressing here with volume load, you know, all kinds of stuff.

I'd say a little better jacket and it's. It's the left leg as you strike or as you're unloading.

Left knee. Kind of like from the striking through the unloading phase. I'd say yeah.

Yesterday at dinner or somewhere last night, toes over knees guy.

Yeah, we talked about Ben Patrick. Knees over toes. Yeah.

Let's do some of the more basic drills that maybe I can do a few of those.

I've actually been doing some of those because I, you know, Ben's gonna come on my podcast. I told him, look, I'm gonna give all your drills like a ton, 30 day fair trial.

So I'm, I love it.

I'm like 10 days in. Okay, let's just do some of these. Yeah, these are like his lean against the wall dorsiflexion. Type exercises for tibialis and we're going.

To check you after each one of these.

Okay.

Now if I'm standing here, it's interesting. I didn't notice it just laying there, but definitely more swelling in the left knee. You can see like, yeah, your kneecap sticks out more on this side.

Yep. The reason I have swelling in my left knee is because four weeks ago or so I got stem cells in there into it. And the doctor, I don't know if he was aware of this, but when you combine like placenta matrix or ozone or anything like that with stem cells, it accelerates the inflammatory response. That knee just swelled right up and kind of like deactivated the quad a little bit.

Oh, interesting.

So when the knee swells and deactivates the quad, what happens is that the, any pain that you have begins to become magnified. In this case, the quad was no longer supporting the movement of the patella. But it was a blessing in disguise because it was hurting so much after that injection, I thought, you know, I'm getting an MRI just in case. So I got an MRI and it turns out that there's actually some significant cartilage degeneration on the femur and on the backside of the, of the patella. So much in fact that. And I'm going to do a podcast when I'm down there. There's a procedure, a minimally invasive procedure called an intraosseous drilling where Dr. Matt Cook and another guy, they're going to go in and they use oil, ultrasound guided imaging. They do like micro needling into the surface of the degraded cartilaginous area. Okay. To be like the back of the patella and the head of the femur. And then they fill that with like a bone marrow, bone marrow aspirating a bone marrow soup. And apparently, and I've, I interviewed like six different orthopods about this and every single one was like, yeah, thumbs up, dude, that this, this should actually be like.

It was like a very targeted work.

Compared to a full on knee surgery or resurfacing or something like that. Right.

You don't have the recovery time and the rehab time and all that.

That's what happened. That's why you still see that left knee. I mean you can see it's like visible if you see with the camera here. I'll show people on the camera too. Right. See that left knee.

What's funny, that in the bright light, you know, I'm like kind of swinging a little. I didn't notice it like, oh, yeah, I noticed it here now.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Okay, so I did some of those, those dorsiflexion exercises from the knees over toes. Do you want me to do a few more?

Yeah, do them because some time they're slicked in there. Yeah, exactly. Give it a fair test. And then what's cool about this too is like some people like, hey, how's this compared to such and such? Like, look, there's nothing quite like what we're doing, but we're just making sure whatever interventions.

Yeah. This is like different than what they've done done. Say like Buellers.

Let's check this.

Yep. Okay.

Hold in. I'll see the arm right here. Natural, like, cool. Everybody's like, I can handle that. How about some more knee over?

Different, different knee over toe drill. Okay, so here's another one where you go into the wall, bend the knees like this. And then it's almost like a kind of like a seated calf raise machine, except your knees are bent against the wall.

Perfect.

This is another one. Now you all do like 30 of one and then do all 30 of these. But I won't do 30 right now.

Yeah, it's got like five or 10 of them. That's perfect.

Right?

Let's check it.

Okay.

That's what's cool too. We find that it's usually the exposure, whether it's 1 rep or 10. It doesn't.

There's one I could show you that actually does hurt.

I'll show it to you. That's great. I mean, because those are good. So maybe start getting ones that are just bit a little.

Little bit. So like this one. And what Ben told me is when you're doing these exercises, you actually, you only want to go through range of motion. That's pain free. But this is one where even through the. Even through like a baby range of motion, there's still a little bit of pain.

Sure.

But basically, I think he calls this not a Patrick step. I can show you what that one is too. It's like a knees over toes lunge, basically. So we're like this and then back. And for this exercise, for example, that he sent to me, I do five reps on one leg.

Sure.

And then five reps on the other leg. And you do like five by five of that, like the whole routine he sent me. I'm supposed to do it three times a week and takes like 15 minutes.

Nice. Okay. How do I feel like you're doing right now?

A little bit of pain. Yep. That's the One exercise of the whole series gives me a little bit of pain.

Stop here. Yep. Eyes up, eyes down. Organized. Organized.

Yeah.

Left, right, we'll check. Beautiful. That's right.

So that's right.

That's eyes. Right. So it's left ear and right turn with the nasal. So we're just gonna call it a psych. Clearing breath versus a. I'm learning.

It's all making sense. I know some of my audience members, they like, they'll have their head scratched a little bit, but as I'm as. As we're doing this, every time I do it, I'm understanding.

And as I tell people, like, all I'll do is set up seesaws all day long. We have an up, down, seesaw and right, left.

Yep. Yeah.

If you're crashing this side. Well, that's not the problem. Everybody pays at engine to crash. Like, what's missing.

Yeah.

So it's really like a reset, a restoration process.

Okay, now arm goes out again.

Yep. And I is right. Because that was disorganized. Beautiful. And how about just do one rep of that? Provoking one.

One rep. Yep.

And if that's good, then we'll go three or five, you know, cuz I always try to be as conservative.

That's actually a little better. Dude, it's awesome.

Yeah, that's beautiful.

It is. I'm not just saying that. No. I know some of this stuff you're always at, like questioning the CO, etc.

Correct.

Okay. Not bad.

All right, let's check it. That was four. That's beautiful.

Yeah. So now you get more of the goodies. Because when there's pain, that's a really good driver.

Now, when I do that exercise in the future, my nervous system has already been retrained.

Exactly.

We're hypothesizing.

And maybe let's just stay with that one because that's a pain provoker. Let's do the same thing blind. Because then if you can clear this, then it's like, all right. Everything the same.

Okay.

Yeah. A little balance challenge.

Yeah.

How'd the pain feel?

I would say it's a little more with the eyes closed.

Right. Right here. Because the whole thing is if we can get eyes closed and organized.

And I was weaker there. Yeah. Up and down.

Check it. So just mapping you out. Good map. Looking down also good map. You're good here. Y right, left again. Let's see which one's our guy here. Let me see that one again. I think that's your. Give me if you have a turn right yeah.

So when I'm so.

I wasn't sure. Went a little harder.

Just make sure left on that side.

Yeah. So now it's left disorganized, right. Organized. So I lean right and turn left. You know, separately with an angle.

Turn left and through the nose.

And then out can be nose or mouth.

Okay.

So then we go eyes left.

Good.

Yeah. How about just one or two of the same style lines?

Eyes closed, Lunch. Okay.

I'd just say one or two, because what if we got to do this 10 times? Don't irritate it too bad. You know what I'm saying?

I'm tired of that first one. Felt better already.

Beautiful, man.

Nice.

All right.

Definitely better.

Love it. Let's stay with this. This is the first thing we've come across. It irritates. Let's make it crazy on you. Let's go. Same lunge. Eyes closed, little right, left, Head turn. So I will transfer.

When do I do the head turn?

The whole time. Maybe start with it just to kind of get. Get your brain warmed up with it. Yeah, Keep turning, keep turning. Head turn.

Now head turn the left.

Yeah, Left and right. Keep turning. Just keep turning.

Yeah.

Just throwing a little bit of complexity here. Yes. Weird. Beautiful. Let's check the arm.

That didn't fool your brain. That's awesome. How about head up and down as you're doing lunge?

Just making that target bigger for your nervous system. Like, all right. If you do all this stuff, I think it's get an old person and they're out of pain as long as they walk like this. But as soon as you open up, you're like, that hurts the hip. So all we're trying to do is give a bigger target and it wasn't.

Too painful like that.

Awesome. Here's a weird one. Frontal plane, like ear to shoulder as you're trying to do that one.

Okay.

If you can. It's a weird one.

Awesome.

It's pretty good, man.

Okay.

Awesome.

Yeah, so I love that, like, we can use, you know, the new over toe guy, because actually his name came up like three times last month. Yeah. But it's kind of cool.

Yeah, it's a good dude.

He's very, very kind.

Okay, so this is called his Patrick step, where you just lower the heel and push back. This one definitely. Historically, you know, not almost no pain with it, you know, compared to that. That knee over toe lunge. Okay.

Let's check it.

Yeah.

No big deal for your nervous system there.

Yep.

Any other drills that you do that are either finger provoking or super challenging.

This one's like a hip.