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 health02:03 The misconception about using the model with athletes 03:10 Performance trade-offs and the injury continuum05:30 Tracking athletes over time: pitching cycles vs. play schedules07:00 In-season versus off-season programming09:00 Programming by structure: wide receiver vs. offensive lineman13:38 Assessing athletes during performance, not just before and after14:31 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 constraints17:19 Grouping athletes and reading thorax compensation 20:36 Worst-case settings and damage control21:49 Communicating with coaching and medical staff24:26 Why learning the model has to come firstLearn the UHPC Model, free courses: uhp.networkSubscribe on YouTube for new episodesFollow on Instagram: @bill_hartman_ptTrain with Bill: reconu.co#UHPCmodel #billhartmanpt #athletictraining #strengthandconditioning #sportsperformance #physicaltherapy #athleteassessment

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 sequencingWhy arresting forward and rightward progression must come before any left-side projectionThe late ER shape and why it does not become early propulsion without IR superimpositionRight low oblique as the starting constraint most people skipWhy right foot elevated split stance comes before left foot elevatedPhase constrained versus phase integrated activities explainedHow taping a foot into ER creates the exact failure pattern this addressesWhy improving ER measures without IR improvement is a red flag not a winLeave 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.Free assessment course coming soon. Learn the UHPC Model free: https://uhp.networkP&C and Assessment bundle: https://education.uhp.networkSubscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BillHartmanPTInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bill_hartman_pt/Timestamps:0:00 What the P&I workshop revealed1:30 Better recognition of what practitioners are actually seeing3:00 The common deficiency: not arresting rightward forward progression5:30 Why the late ER shape does not become early propulsion without IR8:00 The cutting analogy: decelerating before changing direction10:00 What it looks like when the right side constraint is missing12:00 Right low oblique as the starting point most people skip14:00 Why rushing to left-side activities adds compensation on top of compensation16:00 Right foot elevated split stance before left foot elevated18:00 How to check: do your IR measures change after the right-side intervention20:00 Phase constrained versus phase integrated activities22:00 Achilles and hamstring injuries as consequences of forced ER strategies25:00 Why taping a foot into ER creates the failure pattern27:00 The general sequence: create space then slow down then project#physicaltherapy #UHPC #billhartman #internalrotation #movementassessment #strengthandconditioning #rehab #reconsiderpodcast #UHPnetwork #propulsion #splitsquat #exerciseselection #programming #corrective #PandI

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 phasesWhy the position is diagnostic: what it reveals that ground positions concealHow to audit each position using ground contacts and breathingThe rolling sequence that connects hook lying through oblique to uprightArchetype-specific behavior: wide ISA versus narrow ISA in each positionWhy chasing IR without tracking ER will mislead your assessment every timeHow moving too quickly to upright loaded activities reverses your progressLeave 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.Free assessment course coming soon. Learn the UHPC Model free: https://uhp.networkP&C and Assessment bundle: https://education.uhp.networkSubscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BillHartmanPTInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bill_hartman_pt/Timestamps:0:00 Oblique sitting is diagnostic not transitional0:26 Subscribe note0:42 What low oblique actually represents: early propulsion2:00 Slowing the grounded side to allow the other side forward3:24 Progressive rotational loading against gravity4:20 Why the position becomes more internal as support is reduced5:19 Building AP dimension from earlier positions6:21 How to audit: when to step back to low oblique or hook lying7:56 What IR substitution looks like in high oblique8:41 Why upright positions are diagnostic in ways ground positions are not9:25 Side plank as the extreme version of low oblique10:05 Compensations to look for: shoulder rounding and cervical forward head11:24 Advantages of oblique when foot contacts are limited12:17 Breathing as an audit tool in reduced support positions13:27 What measures suggest readiness for low oblique versus high oblique14:34 Low oblique as early propulsion high oblique as late propulsion16:36 The series of turns: into and out of the cut explained17:06 Turkish getup as a framework for understanding the sequence19:01 What happens when you load a system before it is ready20:18 Why middle propulsive strategies create stability without mobility21:40 Free courses and upcoming free assessment course22:11 P&C and Assessment bundle and P&I Health course Nov 202623:16 Archetype specific considerations: wide ISA versus narrow ISA28:20 The rolling sequence connecting hook lying through oblique to upright#obliquesitting #physicaltherapy #UHPC #billhartman #internalrotation #movementassessment #strengthandconditioning #rehab #reconsiderpodcast #UHPnetwork #propulsion #corrective #hooklying #sidelying #turkishgetup #groundcontacts

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 positionThe four ground contacts and why all of them matter equallyWhy posterior pelvic tilt cues drive compensation rather than resolve itHow to audit the position through breathing without over-cueingArchetype-specific coaching: narrow ISA versus wide ISAHow side-lying earns hook lying and what rolling is actually teachingWhere hook lying fits in the progression toward upright loaded movementLeave a comment: have you ever cued someone to flatten their back in hook lying and watched something get worse?Tell us what you saw.P&C and Assessment bundle: https://education.uhp.networkLearn the UHPC Model free: https://uhp.networkSubscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@BillHartmanPTInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bill_hartman_pt/Timestamps:0:00 Hook lying is not a neutral position1:39 What hook lying represents: early propulsion and ER bias3:25 The four ground contacts and what they do mechanically4:52 What happens when someone cannot acquire the position5:37 Why flattening the back drives compensation6:39 How measures can mislead you when relative motion is lost9:10 Setting up the position: foot contacts in detail10:09 Heaviness as the cue: even distribution explained11:46 UHP+ foot contact video and network plug13:20 Pelvis and thorax contacts16:06 Auditing the position through breathing19:02 Why effort and over-cueing work against you20:41 Archetype considerations: narrow ISA versus wide ISA27:19 What to do when someone cannot acquire the position28:20 How side-lying earns hook lying29:19 Rolling as propulsion phases31:23 Marching wall work and reclined loading progressions33:06 P&I Health course November 2026 and prerequisite bundle#hooklying #physicaltherapy #UHPC #billhartman #internalrotation #movementassessment #strengthandconditioning #rehab #reconsiderpodcast #UHPnetwork #earlypropulsion #groundcontacts #corrective #sidelying #breathingmechanics

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 skeletonWhy anterior-posterior expansion is the goal and how side-lying creates itThe two compensatory strategies you will see and what each one meansHow to read ground contacts as a real-time assessment of shape accessArchetype-specific behavior: wide ISA versus narrow ISA in this positionThe three-quarter position as a bridge when full side-lying is not accessibleWhere side-lying fits in the full progression toward loaded upright movementLeave 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.Learn the UHPC Model, free courses and articles: https://uhp.network P&C plus Assessment bundle: https://education.uhp.network Train with Bill, RECON app: https://www.reconu.coSubscribe and follow: https://www.youtube.com/@BillHartmanPT https://www.instagram.com/bill_hartman_pt/ https://billhartmanpt.com/Timestamps:0:00 Why side-lying matters and how it connects to the series0:46 Subscribe and channel note1:16 What side-lying was used for before and what we are reconsidering2:00 What actually happens mechanically when you roll to your side4:54 How to know someone cannot access the position6:21 The two compensation types and what each reveals7:25 Anterior-posterior expansion and why it is the goal9:10 How to audit using ground contacts10:08 Specific symptoms that signal position access is compromised13:01 Archetype considerations: wide ISA versus narrow ISA15:14 The network and P&C plus Assessment bundle17:05 What side-lying is actually training20:08 Prerequisites: what split squat assessment tells you21:12 The three-quarter position as a bridge24:59 When three-quarter still does not work: muscle activity and shape change27:31 The developmental sequence and where to go when each step fails31:57 Who this podcast is really for and where to go next#sidelying #physicaltherapy #UHPC #billhartman #internalrotation #movementassessment #strengthandconditioning #rehab #reconsiderpodcast #UHPnetwork #corrective #quadruped #halfkneeling #anteriorposteriorexpansion #exerciseprogramming