Reconsider... with Bill Hartman

Training athletes is not the same as restoring health. The priorities change, the constraints change, and the way you apply the model changes with them.

Chris and Bill work through what it means to apply the UHPC Model in a performance setting. Restoring health is about recapturing relative motion and getting someone back within their base of support. Performance is about trade-off management: deciding how much relative motion an athlete gives up to produce force, accelerate, and project themselves without crossing into the part of the continuum where symptoms and injury live. Bill draws on years of work with professional pitchers, Olympic-level runners, NFL players, and NBA athletes to explain how he finds the point where an athlete performs at their highest level while still protecting themselves, and how he tracks that point as it moves.

Comment below: if you work with a team, what is the hardest part of applying an individualized model at scale?

00:00 Why training athletes differs from restoring health
02:03 The misconception about using the model with athletes 03:10 Performance trade-offs and the injury continuum
05:30 Tracking athletes over time: pitching cycles vs. play schedules
07:00 In-season versus off-season programming
09:00 Programming by structure: wide receiver vs. offensive lineman
13:38 Assessing athletes during performance, not just before and after
14:31 The tradeoff between symptom relief and peak output 15:30 Using key performance indicators when time is limited 16:23 Working within team and organizational constraints
17:19 Grouping athletes and reading thorax compensation 20:36 Worst-case settings and damage control
21:49 Communicating with coaching and medical staff
24:26 Why learning the model has to come first

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After a weekend workshop developing the Programming and Interventions course, one finding kept showing up across every practitioner in the room. The most common mistake was not arresting the forward and rightward projection before attempting to move from right to left. Even experienced practitioners with years in the model were skipping or rushing through this step.

This is not a positional episode. This is about the single most important starting point for intervention sequencing and why getting it wrong undermines everything that follows.

If you have ever put a client into a left front foot forward split stance and wondered why measures are not changing, this episode explains exactly what you skipped.

What we cover:
What the P&I workshop revealed about a universal gap in practitioner sequencing
Why arresting forward and rightward progression must come before any left-side projection
The late ER shape and why it does not become early propulsion without IR superimposition
Right low oblique as the starting constraint most people skip
Why right foot elevated split stance comes before left foot elevated
Phase constrained versus phase integrated activities explained
How taping a foot into ER creates the exact failure pattern this addresses
Why improving ER measures without IR improvement is a red flag not a win

Leave a comment: have you been defaulting to left-side-first activities without establishing the right-side constraint? Tell us what changed when you flipped it.

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Timestamps:
0:00 What the P&I workshop revealed
1:30 Better recognition of what practitioners are actually seeing
3:00 The common deficiency: not arresting rightward forward progression
5:30 Why the late ER shape does not become early propulsion without IR
8:00 The cutting analogy: decelerating before changing direction
10:00 What it looks like when the right side constraint is missing
12:00 Right low oblique as the starting point most people skip
14:00 Why rushing to left-side activities adds compensation on top of compensation
16:00 Right foot elevated split stance before left foot elevated
18:00 How to check: do your IR measures change after the right-side intervention
20:00 Phase constrained versus phase integrated activities
22:00 Achilles and hamstring injuries as consequences of forced ER strategies
25:00 Why taping a foot into ER creates the failure pattern
27:00 The general sequence: create space then slow down then project

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Oblique sitting gets used constantly as a developmental step or a regression from standing. What most practitioners miss is that it is actually diagnostic. It shows you whether everything you built on the ground transferred to a position where gravity starts working against you.

In this episode Bill and Chris break down low oblique and high oblique as propulsion representations, what each demands, what compensations reveal about the system, and how archetype changes both the presentation and the strategy. This episode explains exactly what you are seeing and what to do about it.

What we cover:

What low oblique and high oblique actually represent as propulsion phases
Why the position is diagnostic: what it reveals that ground positions conceal
How to audit each position using ground contacts and breathing
The rolling sequence that connects hook lying through oblique to upright
Archetype-specific behavior: wide ISA versus narrow ISA in each position
Why chasing IR without tracking ER will mislead your assessment every time
How moving too quickly to upright loaded activities reverses your progress

Leave a comment: have you ever had a client look clean on the ground and completely fall apart in oblique sitting? Tell us what you saw.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Oblique sitting is diagnostic not transitional
0:26 Subscribe note
0:42 What low oblique actually represents: early propulsion
2:00 Slowing the grounded side to allow the other side forward
3:24 Progressive rotational loading against gravity
4:20 Why the position becomes more internal as support is reduced
5:19 Building AP dimension from earlier positions
6:21 How to audit: when to step back to low oblique or hook lying
7:56 What IR substitution looks like in high oblique
8:41 Why upright positions are diagnostic in ways ground positions are not
9:25 Side plank as the extreme version of low oblique
10:05 Compensations to look for: shoulder rounding and cervical forward head
11:24 Advantages of oblique when foot contacts are limited
12:17 Breathing as an audit tool in reduced support positions
13:27 What measures suggest readiness for low oblique versus high oblique
14:34 Low oblique as early propulsion high oblique as late propulsion
16:36 The series of turns: into and out of the cut explained
17:06 Turkish getup as a framework for understanding the sequence
19:01 What happens when you load a system before it is ready
20:18 Why middle propulsive strategies create stability without mobility
21:40 Free courses and upcoming free assessment course
22:11 P&C and Assessment bundle and P&I Health course Nov 2026
23:16 Archetype specific considerations: wide ISA versus narrow ISA
28:20 The rolling sequence connecting hook lying through oblique to upright

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Hook lying looks like the simplest position in the room. Knees bent, feet flat, lying on your back. Most practitioners use it as a default starting point without thinking about what it actually demands. That is a problem.

Hook lying is an early propulsive position with a strong ER bias. Getting into it correctly requires medial foot contacts, a pelvis that can superimpose IR on ER, and a thorax that can expand without compensation. If your client cannot access those, you are not starting them in a safe easy position. You are starting them in a compensation.

If you have ever told someone to flatten their back to the table or put a band around their knees in hook lying, this episode explains exactly why that works against you.

What we cover:

What hook lying actually represents as an early propulsive position
The four ground contacts and why all of them matter equally
Why posterior pelvic tilt cues drive compensation rather than resolve it
How to audit the position through breathing without over-cueing
Archetype-specific coaching: narrow ISA versus wide ISA
How side-lying earns hook lying and what rolling is actually teaching
Where hook lying fits in the progression toward upright loaded movement

Leave a comment: have you ever cued someone to flatten their back in hook lying and watched something get worse?
Tell us what you saw.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Hook lying is not a neutral position
1:39 What hook lying represents: early propulsion and ER bias
3:25 The four ground contacts and what they do mechanically
4:52 What happens when someone cannot acquire the position
5:37 Why flattening the back drives compensation
6:39 How measures can mislead you when relative motion is lost
9:10 Setting up the position: foot contacts in detail
10:09 Heaviness as the cue: even distribution explained
11:46 UHP+ foot contact video and network plug
13:20 Pelvis and thorax contacts
16:06 Auditing the position through breathing
19:02 Why effort and over-cueing work against you
20:41 Archetype considerations: narrow ISA versus wide ISA
27:19 What to do when someone cannot acquire the position
28:20 How side-lying earns hook lying
29:19 Rolling as propulsion phases
31:23 Marching wall work and reclined loading progressions
33:06 P&I Health course November 2026 and prerequisite bundle

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The last couple of episodes we covered quadruped and half kneeling. Before either of those positions can work, the system has to be able to manage something with less gravity involved. Side-lying is often that place, and most practitioners are using it without understanding what it actually demands or what it breaks down into when it fails.
If your clients complain of a pointy hip, a pinching shoulder, or a knee that will not touch the ground in side-lying, this episode explains exactly what those signals mean and what to do next.

We are speaking to the physical therapists, strength coaches, personal trainers, and movement professionals who want a more coherent framework for where to start and why. The ones who have been putting clients in side-lying for years without a clear model for what they are actually looking at.

What we cover:
What side-lying actually demands from the hip, thorax, and axial skeleton
Why anterior-posterior expansion is the goal and how side-lying creates it
The two compensatory strategies you will see and what each one means
How to read ground contacts as a real-time assessment of shape access
Archetype-specific behavior: wide ISA versus narrow ISA in this position
The three-quarter position as a bridge when full side-lying is not accessible
Where side-lying fits in the full progression toward loaded upright movement

Leave a comment: have you ever had a client who could not manage side-lying no matter what you tried? Tell us what you saw and what you attempted.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Why side-lying matters and how it connects to the series
0:46 Subscribe and channel note
1:16 What side-lying was used for before and what we are reconsidering
2:00 What actually happens mechanically when you roll to your side
4:54 How to know someone cannot access the position
6:21 The two compensation types and what each reveals
7:25 Anterior-posterior expansion and why it is the goal
9:10 How to audit using ground contacts
10:08 Specific symptoms that signal position access is compromised
13:01 Archetype considerations: wide ISA versus narrow ISA
15:14 The network and P&C plus Assessment bundle
17:05 What side-lying is actually training
20:08 Prerequisites: what split squat assessment tells you
21:12 The three-quarter position as a bridge
24:59 When three-quarter still does not work: muscle activity and shape change
27:31 The developmental sequence and where to go when each step fails
31:57 Who this podcast is really for and where to go next

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