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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