get a mess. You saw on your desk or something, so I'm gonna just play safe and record to the cloud today. Hello, welcome. Um, okay. I have some fun stuff planned, but I want to just check in with those of you live on the call. If you've come with any uh questions or queries from the last month of classes or insights you want to share, we'll start there. Yeah, I'll go. Um, from here down has really gotten activated with the different classes I've done over this last week. And I've got this pull there that I can't quite figure out how to uh ease it. Okay. And I felt like it had to do with the weights. Okay. We're going to talk trapez. We can talk trapezius here. Um, I'm just this kind of person. I'm not I'm techsavvy, but not techsavvy enough that I like want to bring up an image on the computer. So, I'm going to Okay. So, one kind of thing to to just hold in your concept of how we move is our upper body. the muscles are much more they go from fanning big to small and there's usually like a twist in them. So for instance, if you look at the trapezius muscles and I encourage you to go look at some images online too, but you start to see how it starts like the upper ones start really they they fan in the middle. They are not linear. There's twists to the attachment points. Okay. And I think sometimes we think of muscles a little too flat and a little too linearly because also the underside of that doesn't look exactly like that either. There's more tendonous kind of attachments. So if you think of this as maybe one side of a feather, the the other side has more kind of tendonous pieces and penation angles. Okay. Um but but sometimes we think of them as kind of like a cable versus an octopus tentacle. Nice. How an octopus leg kind of moves. So that would be one. So for that um the other thing that I I find helpful is especially like the the chest muscle it fans like this attaches to these ribs and the sternum as it gets closer to the armpit here though it like this skin thing that lots of women don't like. That's your pec and that's the part of your pec that twists and it attaches to your upper arm up here. So if on the call if we all just take something in our hand and think okay if I think like a catapult or a slingshot where I'm going to go back feel the point where you feel your chest muscle kind of gets like yeah that's far enough like it it only wants the elbow to go so far away from the body and so far back and it gets tight there. Okay. Yes. If I think of that path rather than being this being as one long lever, okay, which the leg kind of works better that way and the muscles are designed that way. So rather than thinking of taking this as one long lever that then I'm going to throw whatever it is. Okay, the upper body much more likes us to go this is a lever, this is a lever. Okay, this could be a lever. But what we've been doing with the power pads, we kind of cut out the wrist and so elbow to power pads becomes a lever and the humorous is a lever and torso. Okay? Whereas in the lower body, we have a lot more muscles that cross multiple joints. So we could get a lever from our foot to our hip or our foot to our knee and then knee to our hip. There's kind of fewer joints if you will at play. So if instead of thinking like a catapult, I'm going to go back to throw that thing. I want you to think this lever and this lever can both move like a lasso. or a gyroscope. So if if you if if I take this and I think they can both okay move like a lasso. I don't need the whole thing to move like a lasso as one unit but especially the humorous. So now picture you're going to take and throw that thing and instead of thinking this whole arm like a catapult or even this arm like a catapult back and forward, I want you to think take it back and bring it forward like a lasso. But it's not just this part of the arm. This part of the arm also lasses. Oh, right. So all of a sudden now I throw that thing and there's a lot more power that comes out at the release point versus me going like this. And I run into that tension in the pec. I don't run into that tension in the pec as I take the elbow back as I keep it a little lower and closer to the body versus Uhhuh. keeping it further from the body and higher up. Okay. So the the other thing that I've kind of connected to too is if I take a dumbbell and because this the bicep can only be a class three lever because of where the joints cross. So I I I only can get this. I've got the the load here, falcrum's here, resistance is here, right? That's I can only that's it. But I'm I'm never going to be able to get this like I'm only going to be able to get this so heavy or this joint is just not going to be h happy because it it's like it's it set up to be a mechanical disadvantage taking a heavy load from here and trying to bring it up here with the with the effort or the I always get confused with the force being here. Okay, here. Force here. Right. I'm trying it. It is only ever going to be it's just inefficient. Okay. versus if I set myself up to instead say you instead say okay I'm going to do a bicep curl Right. But I'm going to focus on that bicep curl on on I could do both arms, but I'm going to say one arm. So I'm here for me to bicep curl my body weight to where the load is. Like now all of a sudden I my body becomes the weight. Mhm. So, how I work that lever is way more mechanically advantageous. The weight being out here, I'm still loading the bicep, right? Now I can change the lever to be a more mechanically advantageous lever because it switches out from being class three to a more class one. I'm following you. I don't have one of those uh swingy things. Yeah, that's just a chain. But it's the same idea as if I do a chest press say compared to a push-up. Okay. All right. So kind of idea. The other thing is with the one I get in a better position to also have other muscles of the upper body contribute to what's happening. And that that's what's happened. This is the only muscle that is active in it. Okay. And so and ultimately mechanical tension is what stimulates change is what stimulates the muscles to adapt and change. Whether that's mechanical tension through uh a stretch stimulus or a resistance training stimulus, the the the muscle proteins in here don't know the difference. They don't know, oh that's a bicep curl versus that's something else. They just feel the mechanical tension. Time under tension is what creates the adaptation. Okay. So, um, those are some things to think about the way we can get kind of more participating because again, I'm not looking to I want to isolate and sculpt this one muscle. That's a aesthetic bodybuilding um, thing. I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in how can I put my system in situations where I get the best relay of my resources being the resources I have relaying and passing the baton between each other to get the best outcomes. So power pads are one of those things. And these guys, just like in the feet, correspond to again that communication further up the chain. Okay. So, I'm going to draw you a map. So, you maybe decide you want to make some gloves that help accentuate your ability to get into those power pads of your hands. So, I literally These are garden gloves from the hardware store. These ones are garage gloves. I've just turned them inside out. Garage gloves again from the hardware store. It works best to cut the fingers off pretty low down to to, you know, where they come into the the glove. I haven't, you know, when I put this on, you'll see it's the, you know, the the the fingers aren't up at the second digit. They're kind of half between the base of this finger and that first digit. So, I find it easiest you cut the fingers off. I'm going to go through the process with you with the new fair. So, you'll take them and you can always cut them shorter, but you can't put back once you cut. So, kind of go what you think and then we can always go back and cut them shorter. The thumb too. Thumb too. Yeah. One reason is the hands get hot wearing these when you're working out. So, it's nice not having the fingers. It also makes it The first pair I altered, I left the fingers on and it was just a lot harder to turn the glove inside out and then I had to like redo where I put my power pad things cuz once I flipped the fingers back around, they weren't quite in the right spot. So, you're getting kind of my version 250 here. I've had some trial and error. Well, thank you for sharing. Okay, so once you get your fingers cut off, you'll have something that looks like that. Go. Okay. Then I'm going to take a Sharpie just so it's really easy for you to see. You don't have to do this with a a Sharpie, but the the pattern of where the power pads are is the thumb. You see when you push your thumb kind of forward there, this little C shape. So you've got one kind of there. Okay. Then at the hand side of this TP, you've got one the hand side of this one. Okay. And then these these guys I kind of do as one and it comes down to the center of the heel. I wish I brought a marker. Okay, so that's kind of the the map that I use. So, what you could do is do this on your hand, then put that on a piece of paper, then trace around the outside of your hand. If you did this with a Sharpie, it will transfer to your paper, and then you will have show you I I'm I'm okay eyeballing it, but I know some of you are less comfortable eyeballing it. So, once I get that, I can go to my piece of paper. And then I'm going to take I'm not going to use my Sharpie brush. I'll just get a pen. I'll show you here. And then my Sharpie kind of transferred to that. The thumb one's a little bit faint, so I'll just draw it on. So then I've got my my map for this hand. So then the there's two two ways you could do this. I'm going to show you the like the super easy way because a glue gun is cheap and it's easy for people to get. If you had a sewing machine, however, you could, if you wanted, and you liked not wasting anything, you could take the fabric from the fingers. Okay? Cut it. And then you're simply going to cut pieces, strips kind of big enough to be there. You'll flip your glove inside out. The thing with the sewing machine is you do have to cut open the sides of your glove, right? Because you can't sew on one side really without sewing through the whole thing. You might be able to. No, it depends on your sewing machine, but I think a glove is kind of small to fit in there. So, a sewing machine you'd have to cut and cut, which is fine. and you just sew it up afterwards. But then you can just stitch strips of fabric on these points or you can draw the map then that you've got on your piece of paper onto your glove. That one's a little messy. This one's a little cleaner. And then you just take the glue gun and put it on. The thing um I like with this is then I flip it over and I check. I'm like, are they hitting me? Oh, it's a bit low. You can flip it back. Pull the glue gun that you put on off. Adjust where it is. But remember the power pads in the hands like the power pads in the feet. It's not just about having pressure into them. It's about getting that connectivity and then being able to press into whatever it is you're holding or using. Then that connects us up to the torso. Whereas if I focus on the fingers being what are doing the gripping, it only hits the forearm. Okay? It it shuts off past the forearm. So, a a fun thing over Easter because I was doing a lot more um cooking and then I made soup with the leftover ham bone afterwards is this works in all the places. So, with my knife handling, I was like and chopping. I was doing lots of chopping. I was like, "Okay, I want that knife handle. I I'm going to be a little bit looser. just let the fingers guide. But I'm going to be chopping via those power pads versus holding the knife with the finger and chop like the fingers gripping it and chopping. So, this just an example of a way you can work with this. I know I've talked to Carrie before about the idea of like how she might want to work with that on her handlebars. questions, comments. I've been working on it with on my handlebars for sure. And I really I can notice when I because I get a feedback right in my forearm when I'm like, "Okay, what are you doing?" And so then it it's taking time and it's similar to bike gloves. Bike gloves actually have kind of padding in those spots anyways. So it's very similar. Lots of them are like that. Yeah, you can get a little bit more specific with your specific hand kind of which I think is useful because all the models kind of are like this is what we all look like and it's like yeah I haven't seen very many feet that the toes are all uniform definitely. So I can find um I can't really find the power pad of my thumb. I I I don't know where it is. I can't feel it. I can feel the power pad. So, it's different than these guys. Okay. Okay. Cuz part of it is down here. Yeah, I got that. Yeah, that would be more akin to being similar to these guys. Yes. This one is more where it is that the thumb does that action and it can work into it. It's not that act. You know, if I put a finger here, it's it's more that action than that action. Does that make sense? Yeah. Because the thumb is more rotational. It's got more roll to it than the base of the fingers do because we're oppositional thumbs to the hand. Mhm. And so really the thumb acts more as so if I use the chain say or a bar or yoga block it's more I'm using the fingers to work so that I can work the power pads into whatever it is I'm holding versus the fingers gripping whatever it is that I'm holding is how I think of it. How do you get the using the fingers? How do you get the chain on the thumb pump uh power pad? Uh so that's that's where that thumb ends up being. It's not it's not going to be in there. That's more Oh, okay. All right. All right. Yeah, I see it now. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Um but and that leads me to another query. Okay. So, do you have a ball, Margaret? I do. Uh if you have two or if you have a lightweight like the just a ball ball. Uh yeah, the one the ones I have are like the yoga tuneup, the large elo ball. Okay, perfect. So what I'm going to invite us to play with is whatever our arm is that typically if you caught the ball and you were going to throw it, there's an arm you're going to throw it with. Your other arm isn't doing nothing. When this arm is throwing this arm, there's a place this arm wants to be to create an anchor to to create an oppositional anchor for this throw to be work out better. I wouldn't put the you know there's you're you know there's a place where that arm and a job for it like holding the paper and writing. Okay. So I want you just to consider that the action of this arm as you kind of work that lasso feel the lasso action of that other arm. Pay attention to it. Okay, it's not doing nothing. So now put the ball in that hand. And it's not about this hand throwing the ball. I'm actually going to hold two. This could be water bottles also. Like if you didn't have a ball or you didn't have two balls, like hold something in each hand. So yes, I'm throwing this one, but I want to track like what is this arm doing? So, as I throw this, see the pattern that other arm wants to do? Become a bit more intentional with it. And feel what that gives your throwing arm. Nice balance. But you see how they they're not symmetrical. No. No. Okay. We have to just keep reminding ourselves they're not symmetrical. So that when I pick up a weight say and this would have been last Thursday's class, but when I pick up a weight and I'm like, okay, I'm going to work this idea of like a bicep curl up to a shoulder press, right? And again, this idea of I'm not pressing straight up. I want to still work this action of like a a lasso. I am going to a bicep curl press up. Think again. The arm is still lassoing is very different than if I'm gonna go bicep curl press. my muscles fatigue like it starts to fatigue in like two reps. Whereas if I think of this continual helix through the whole action, it's like, oh, I could I got a few of these. If I add to that kick through the power pad of my leg, I got I got a lot of these actually in my system or I can move a lot more weight. Yes, the the foot in hint was very helpful. But now all of a sudden you feel how that isn't trapezius. No. Yeah. Definitely. It becomes a baton pass through the system. Go ahead, Carrie. Well, it just led to my question now because I was working on my legs on biking and I talked to you about how I'm letting them go. Now I'm feeling both hips. So yesterday my adductors finally came online and started working my inner thigh muscles and so they were burning and I was like, "Oh my god, they're working." And it was like the first time ever and I was so excited and I went faster. It's like I've got speed and power and everything and so I've never since and I ride consistently so like it's consistent and then it was just it started to come online all by itself and so I went to like 25k in the one hour exactly and so then mostly I've been around 23 so that's like quite fast in the general of things. Yeah. And so then then that twisting action I was just like because they were burning and exhausting. And I was like, "Whoa, this is sore." Like it felt like the muscles had never never helped. So now the system's like, "We need to move this. Keep moving it through." Right? And so then I can see the adductors in my head. And I'm like, "Oh, okay. So I I have to keep letting them twist without fearing that now, like going back to my old pattern of trying to make it go this way. I have to now let them rotate through. So then is that same movement? Each petal stroke is just like that." Yes. Yes, but they're going to be different. So, I was showing you on this side. So again our sides like throwing even now when I go to an exercise sometimes we can cognitively get oh yeah well throwing I would do it this way and we have a whole thing around dominant non-dominant whatever whatever whatever but it goes through everything because remember we have like a compressed and and an expanded or up down okay it's that they are both doing the job together it's not that. So throwing this still has a job, but sometimes in exercise we get we click our brain into a different zone and we and we go back to symmetrical, you know, the same. But if you slow down, you'll see that on one side it wants to happen one way and on the other side it there's a there's a difference to it and let that happen. Some so some some of I think what happens with the trapezius with you Margaret is you click to exercise mode and then it becomes um an isolated kind of thing versus feeling and trusting okay this one wants to go this way this one wants to go this way. Yes. It feels like a dictated way or the unfolding way. Exactly. Yes. Yes. Yes. Totally. Totally. Totally. Um so I I would just encourage you to keep kind of exploring that. Uh if we went back to to the cl the the strength class or the first one in April where we did navasana with the dumbbell again. how we decide to bring that dumbbell up. Whether I decide to go this way to bring it up or whether I decide to go this way to bring it up or whether I decide to kind of snake up through the middle is is going to have a different ability of each of us of the triceps to twist in and be part of the system. Okay. Um, what else? What else? What else will What else? And and definitely with all of it, it's still the power pad of the foot because we're still trying to connect tip to tip, pad to pad. So even when it's an upper body exercise, it's a whole body. I've loved I I loved how the power pads of the foot have changed how I am in my body. I haven't found the same and just I just got a little glimpse of it sitting here when with your discussion of the power pads and the hands. I haven't found that uh same sort of delight that I did with the feet. Um uh play with it. Another kind of place where I've been uh coach is like it's rugby season here in my house and so things like a bigger ball like a volleyball or a rugby ball where you have to I'll use a yoga block as like a rugby ball where you have to hold something with two two hands right and this idea of okay well how do I want to get that in that I feel like so my system automatically was like it this holding it this way I connect up holding it this way I don't this this would seem more symmetrical right yes but my system automatically went to this and it was like okay yeah I can I can connect through those so then this idea like in rugby they do something called a throwin and the the cue is they can't move their feet. So, where their feet are planted, their feet stay. And then usually they're coached to really reach back and then and then throw it. It's like a catapult, right? So, I said to the guys, this is going to look the exact same, but I want you to have this idea. Yes, you bring the ball up. You're ready, but now I want you to think that lasso action we were doing with the two individual balls. You're going to do it with both arms at the same time. So, I'm going to go and I'm going to lasso my arms. As I release it, they both lasso. There's like a snap. They're accuracy went up. The power went up. Cool. So, like in a volleyball serve, in tennis, pickle ball, all those things, it's going to be more power. Anything overhand serve. And women are different than men because our pecs are very different. So we much more need to focus on keeping the elbow lower and keeping it in closer to the body because it's the speed of that lasso that gets us out. So So I want you to try to dissociate a little bit. Carrie, see how when you last sue this, this gets a bigger circle. Can you last do this and this still have a tight circle? See how mine has a tight circle still with this rather than this? Okay. Okay. See, follow me. Yeah, it's still a lasso, but it's a tighter. This is still lassoing, but it's a it's a tighter lasso. You know what I'd love to see is uh that speed up in a slow-mo. I'll try versus and what did you feel the difference? Uh well, one there's more snap at the release point at the end and it feels better through the joints, especially the elbow. People get into tennis, golf, elbow. They're doing more of stuff versus Yes, you're last doing it, but the these guys make a tighter lasso around each other so that it's like a whip at the release point. So, Dom, when you say lasso, you actually mean a a going around. Yeah. A gi Have you ever seen a gyroscope? Yeah. or lasso. So, you know, the the bones are doing this, okay? But I want to tighten that up because it's not going to look like it when you throw, right? But that's what you're doing. It's going to look like that catapult. That's how little you have to put in. Mhm. Mhm. But again, some of the learning for some of us is finding the the amount to put in because more, especially as women, we're just conditioned that way in in all the ways. We put in more. All the ways. Yes. Not just in throwing. Don, did I get it a couple of times? Like, so sometimes I could feel it and I was like, "Okay, I can feel." And so then that bigger one isn't what I'm looking for. I'm looking for this with that one being short. Okay. And that might be what I'm doing on because I'm having a more trouble holding the handlebars with this right arm versus this left arm is very easy to relax and I seem to be able to support the weight and it's not cramping. Whereas I'm doing it with the right one and it's cramping and I'm like, "Oh, you know, right." And and some of it was what I'm going to show you right now, which is that um it it might be a design issue slightly in the handlebars. So the the uh so this bar, see how it's it's not straight? Mhm. But it's like a five degree and a five degree. Okay. But it automatically puts that last sue. It lets things pitch you on roll. So for instance, let me lower this down. So, at the the gym, I could I could attach my cable here if I wanted a narrower grip because I've got, you know, one like my hands are doing slightly different things. This bar isn't straight. If I wanted a wide grip, I could attach it here, but I like to use it at home, not just at the gym. So, here's a So, now I've got it through the rings here. Okay. Scoot this guy out of the way. Now, you won't be able to see my feet, but I am on the power pads and I'm thinking of kicking when I pull. Okay. So, now I'm going to walk myself out here. Okay, I'm gonna kick with my power pads and pull. This lets my chest start to twist up and my chest be part of what I'm doing. It's not just a back exercise. It's everybody versus and the gloves can kind of help me a little bit andor using a chain on these, but the the bar and having that slight deviation. So now if I come down here, I get the power pads. I kick. It's pretty good. But that's better. Okay. But again, it's pretty good. Now, if I say lots of people, the way they'll do this is they'll be they'll be on their heels like this versus being on their power pads like this. Let me show you one where I'm on my heels. But you just won't be able to see them. I want one of them. So now I'm on my heels. It's so much more work. Yeah. So when you're kicking, you're you say kick, you're kicking into the floor, right? Or So I'm uh I I'll show you my feet on this one. I won't be quite as Oh, there we go. Okay. You see that? Yeah. So, I have a sense of Yeah. kicking the power pads. Kick the power pads, but it's not a So, it's not a stomp. It is literally like I So, if I'm going to kick with my back foot, it is literally like I'm trying to kick. Or if I was to kick with my front foot, it is like I'm trying to kick. But I just don't take my foot off the floor to then kick. Okay. So, it's more of a kick up. It It would be a a kick as if I was trying to kick the soccer ball. Okay. From the hip, it's not a flick from the knee, right? If I was to do a flick from the knee, it would look like this. Like if my kick was gonna be more of a flick from the knee, I don't get anything from it. Whereas the kick from the hip out through the power pads, it's like transfers to your upper body. Now I want those rings. Um, so and again, so the the rings are good, power pads of the feet are good. If I add the chain on the rings, unless you get sweaty or until you get sweaty, but that's where I like my gloves. So then if I go Okay, I'm gonna do this this way. Okay, so you saw rings with heel. You saw rings with power pads. So now let's do rings with gloves and power pads. So it's better than no gloves chains. Good. It's different than the rings. If I didn't have the gloves, the chains would be better than just the rings. With the gloves, the rings or the chains are kind of equal. And then the bar is even better yet. But I really like the the bar with you. The beauty of having a husband that's a machinist is so So, I'm going to do bicep curl. Okay. So, I get here. I'm not going to hold out at each end. See? See where my hands are? They're closer together. more that narrow grip. Again, I'm still kicking the power pads, the feet, but when I go this way, it's this arm closest to you guys is what I'm biasing it. That bicep is doing more work than the other one. So, then I have to switch to the other side. There we go. to again get now this guy will do more work than the other side. This bicep is now doing the lines. But all can be done without the the bar until I get my husband to make some. But I tried put doing a pull-up with it. I can finally find my triceps and my lats versus just feeling like I'm straining and one day maybe I'll be strong enough to do a pull-up. I could feel things starting to connect. So, so this month I'm just trying a uh doing that row, doing my bicep curls, doing my tricep extensions and push-ups every day. We'll see how I feel at the end of the month. Just working in the power pads of the hands. Well, no. So, the this this I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, I just I was trying to connect the kick of the foot and I could kind of get it and it what it what it did. So, let's just say so I've got my foot on the ground and I want to do my up and but I'm going to try to kick my foot, but I don't kick my foot off the floor. Instead, I imagine kicking it. So, I activate my hip and then it it it brings the whole body into it. Is that correct? Yeah. Okay, I got it then. Yeah. And you could actually kick the floor, too. Like if I was doing something like a heavier weight and I was here, but I'm gonna What do this hand? And I I was here, but I'm like, "Okay, I'm gonna kick them, right? I I could actually kick them, but in that I'm not going to go anywhere. So, I'm not I'm not leaving the ground and kicking the ground, right? And so, then the kick can be usually means a kick, like a real kick. And so, then when I'm pedaling, because I'm attached to my pedals, if I kick off, it will bring the more power into my hip. So, I was pushing down too much. So when Yeah, there's don't push down. You pu you push a push down whether it's in a squat, whether it's in a lunge, it doesn't do the things we want to happen at the joints, right? So then it's like grounding into them, but it's kicking up from the hip. So a an exercise from last month, last Thursday's class was I think I did this one. Yeah. So, yeah, I did do this one. So, I use the box. Okay, it's there. So, now you could play with Okay, I'm going to set up. I'm going to kick both my feet to get up here. So, so if I keep my feet in contact with the ground, the kick, it projects me from the hips. That's what has me get up. I'm not pushing. So, this is what pushing trying to jump would look like. My brain is like, you won't get up there. But I could also do it this way. I could have a staggered stance and I could say I'm going to kick my front leg and then kick my back leg. Nope, I'm not going to do that on this side. I'm going to kick my back leg and then I'm going to kick my front leg. Okay. So, what that looks like is I kick my back leg and then kick my front leg and that sends me up. kick my back leg, front leg, and I'm up. What it looks like if I kick my front leg and then I kick my back leg is it looks like kick the front leg, kick the back leg. You don't get that. And that's what you see in sports, that false step is them kicking this leg to then kick their next leg. So playing with a setup like that, Carrie, might help you get the coordination of both legs because it isn't one kick. It's the kicking of them both that the t that you have to figure out the timing of when you're cycling. That's right. That's right. So then probably the pushing down was maybe slowing it down, but I mean not substantially but not helping. And so then maybe the kick I just maybe didn't understand it properly. So I'm glad I clarified that. Yeah. Yeah. Is there a different word? Do we have a different word that we could potentially use instead of kick? H power up. I don't know. Mhm. Activate. No, but if I cued somebody activate. No, I know. But just for right now, you don't have that. So, if your foot is still on the floor or if your foot is still on the pedal, it looks I mean when sometimes when you kick, it looks like the foot isn't always on the floor. I mean, then it hits the floor. Correct. But your foot is always on the pedal. Yeah, your foot is always on the pedal. So then I'm thinking, can it be a lift? Could it be Could I say lift instead? Like instead a push or lift? Could it kick be a lift? Yes. Okay. So, but I'm one of your kicks is going to be more like a lift, but the other one will be more like a kick. Okay. One will kick and one will lift as they rotate around. Yeah, because I can feel that now. It's just maybe the kick. I can feel the one kick up for sure. Easy. But then one is a kick and one is a lift. But a lift instead of a push. Yes. Right. Because before I had a kick and a push, but I need a kick and a lift. Yes. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Just just just because it was stuck, right? So I couldn't imagine it coming. Report back. Yeah, I'd like to hear that. Yeah, I'll let you know. Um because I'm I'm that's where I'm at right now because it's not making me too tired. When I go run, I get everything gets sore. So then I can't sit for two hours and three hours and study. So then I need to But the biking right now is stable that I can get enough exercise. I can sleep, but then I can still study. Study. Yeah. Add in there a Canadian election. Yeah. Congratulations. Yeah. Thanks. Um yeah, at another Canadian election. Um yes. So sometimes yes the foot but some of that is because I need it's the direction that I need. Can you see how like with throw if my foot explain this like if I kick this leg it lets me set up the kick in this leg in a way that's going to be different than if I kick with this leg first because I'm offset. Let me show it to you this this way. Okay. So again, I'm going to kick with my back leg first and then kick with my front leg. Okay? And my sides don't like to do it the same. One likes a back front, one likes a front back. So So on on this side, I like a front kick with this leg followed by a back kick. The kick is what puts me up on the box. This this leg is kicking up onto the box. So you couldn't just jump up on that box. No. If I went from here and it said jump up, jump to me is I have to go down and then I push the ground away to jump up. My brain is like we might hit our shins. I don't know if we can go high enough. If I were to go kick with both legs and and this would be similar to like a dolphin kick and swimming carry. That's the So if I kick with both legs, my my system is like, yes, because the the femur rotates and gets me up on there. Another way is if I was here. So this is what it would look like. And I was to say, okay, jump. It's in the collisions. So see, I can't jump again. Whether that be lifting my upper body off my lower body so my legs can straighten or whatever you want to call it. Watch for the fact that everybody has to stop moving for me to then start moving the other way. Okay, follow me. So, if I do it by the sense of just jump, jump, jump. Everybody has to stop moving for me to then go the other direction. If I now go, okay, we're going to kick. When I hit the ground, I'm going to kick. Okay. See how the collisions end much sooner? I can go the other direction right away. So, it it's about the having a a longer collision or a shorter collision. And there's less fatigue with a shorter anticipated collision than a bunch of long extended collisions. It worked. It was true. I did it. I did the same thing and it was just felt the same. I was like lift lift lift lift lift and jump like kick kick kick and it was like boing bo and it wasn't tired whereas jump was like boing. And a trampoline is a prime example of extended collisions. Extended collisions. extended collisions. Extended collisions because you've got the you got to wait till everybody finishes going that direction before it goes the other way. Mhm. And as we get older and less stiff, we have to have instructions we can give our system that help us control the collisions. So we don't have to go through all of those collisions for all of that time. Well, I just hope that I get the same feeling from working with the power pads in my hands as I do with the power pads in my feet. I that was really profound for me that shift you are because you're going to combine the power pads of your feet with the power pads of your hands. Yeah. plugged in. The one that I did with we did with Don where we were pushing our hands in to get that lift up. And when I got the serratus, these muscles under here working and I was like, "Ah." It was so cool because finally my scapulas didn't like lift up to my ears the next day. I was like, "Ah, I connected with a muscle." It was so exciting. I was so excited. That's what it's about all the way along. There's like a new discovery. A new discovery. A new discovery. That's what this process is. Yeah, it was it was so exciting. This is the right way. But oh, okay. I had this. Aha. Okay. Now I'm And it connects up to the adductors and then then you're like, okay, now what am I going to do with this now? Yeah, the adductors. I'm going to have to look I'm going to look at my muscles and see because I've I can feel that they need that twist like the pecs, but I don't quite know how they need to twist. So then, but today I I it wasn't as painful. So it came on again today. Yesterday was awesome because it was actually the quad, the VMO start to work on the right leg. And so I can I can play with the right leg easier. It feels like it's connected. The left leg coming on was super exciting. And so then I'm like, okay, so now what do you want? Do you want to go more in? Do you want to let And then but I think actually it will probably work itself out if I just do this kick and lift. kick and lift for the bike rhythm. Yeah. Because if I can like that might sort it out, but then I still actually would like my adductors to work because I feel like that's the reason why I could never ride without h holding hands like without hands because it doesn't hold on. Yes. But the degree to which your adductors need to to to work, they ought not work the whole ride. They should and then rest. Well, and I think that's going to be when I lift because that's going to pull the outer part, those glutes back on without them taking over. But it was neat that they ever came on because I would like them to work a little bit more. I'm not an overactive user of those adductors. They could use a little more work. Yeah, we're usually quite quiet in the adductor zone for sure. Some people are very like more like the chest. Yeah. It's like don't go anywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Okay, this has been a great fun conversation. Thank you so much. More more and more. Um, so yeah, we'll keep working with the power pads of the hands, power pads of the feet next week and yoga and in strength class and reach out with your I'll start working on my gloves and wearing my gloves. Find Yeah, that's way more challenging for me to find the power pads of the hands than it was of the feet. the feet was almost a natural feeling and play with it in the kitchen when you're handling skills and stuff. Um and again they'll just you'll you know the little glimpses will come. Oh, thank you so much. Bye bye much. Bye.