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  1. “I don't recommend this, by the way, because when you put yourself in no way out, there is no way out. You got to really. No, but I can be an overconfident individual at times. And I live through extremes.”

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  2. “Dragon. The dragon is an auroboris. And so It circles my entire upper body, my shoulders, my back, my chest, everything. Here, there's this big dragon head, and its tail is right there in its mouth that's eating itself. That may sound a bit graphic or whatever, but it is the eating of the old becoming the new. It is the purposeful reinvention of oneself. It is the deciding. Not realizing just your potential, but deciding specifically who you want to be in this fucking world. Becoming that person”

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  3. “If you look back, made you had the bad back, made you have the bad D's, but they do the opposite. They get you out of pain. And then I started working on my book to hit on those other things, the mental, the emotional, maybe even spiritual. I don't touch on that one too much in there, but it's all the same that things that happen around you to you, like maybe they're bad. I can't take away that, but why can't you use what you have of it to become a stronger and better person, to become more resilient, to be able to take the things that you don't know that are coming in the future? And so this is very intentful, and that's what the second long-winded to answer in your question here.”

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  4. “People question, people question me at the time because I had a comfortable easy marriage. And I chose to ask for a divorce. And I ended up living in an apartment for a couple years with no income, selling off every last thing that I had except for my two vehicles that I built, and with my kids. And I started my businesses to help people live a better quality of life, to get them out of pain, to help them live better through strength, to realize that stress, demand, those things, they don't have to be the thing that”

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  5. “I was a successful athlete with all time world records. I owned a gym on the side where I coached people. I had a comfortable marriage that everything was hunky-dory with no arguments at home. And I walked away from all of it. I left everything behind except for my kids. I Wanted to chase what I was meant to do and chase what I was capable of doing I wanted to become a better version of myself, but very intentfully. And that's what I did. I sold, I had multiple homes, sold my homes. I cashed in all my retirement that I'd earned for nearly twenty years. I lost all that. I leveraged myself millions of dollars of personal debt so that if I failed, there was no way out even going back to that old career that I did well, I'd be living an apartment the rest of my life paying it off.”

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  6. “About 40 hours went into that thing And then the next tattoo. So I only have two. I had done in 2015, 2016. So at this point in my life, so I had done that. I had flown to whatever heights, right? So I had proven to myself and maybe done what I thought I needed to do to show the world that this poor kid from the sticks, this kid growing up in the mountains with nothing could achieve the American dream. I was a corporate executive sought after that I'd come in, I'd fix companies, I'd turn around and prep him for sale, I'd take a company and grow it from a regional to a national to a global presence. I did this in the automotive manufacturing, aerospace manufacturing, high tech, heavy industry. And I had a house with a white picket fence.”

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  7. “Your potential, your strengths, your abilities that you can fly to whatever height that you want in this world. The only thing holding you back at the end of the day is yourself. And this was, I hadn't necessarily accomplished a whole lot at that time. I mean, I was valedictorian for high school, small high school. Does that even count? As a state level wrestler. This was my belief.”

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  8. “Are pretty big symbols for me. In fact, that covers my entire body as a tattoo. So the first one I had done at around nineteen years old. And so this is or started at nineteen. It's an eagle that covers my entire front, you know, my stomach, rib cage, and one that was on my back that covered most of my back. And there's chained, well, at the claw, I guess. And the chain wraps down around and attaches to my ankle, and there's a shackle there. And so this was something that I had done at that age because it was, to me, it was a representation of.”

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  9. “That is purpose. I mean, you have to me, life is about. Taking your cup and how you choose to pour it out, how you choose to give, what is your purpose, what is that connection with everybody around you? This is That's the intent. That's the life. That's what life is about. How are you going to help those around you? How are you going to help the world? You know, your purposes is right here, figuring out what this is. And then how to do that. But at the same time, you can't let that run dry. So you have to make sure. You're filling that. That's”

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  10. “You think, man, why is a guy so successful? Like, I mean, we haven't talked about all the stuff that I've done, but I've seen a lot of success in both business leadership, athletics, academics, entrepreneurship, all these sorts of things, right? But if it wasn't for having kids and the same being in the position, I wouldn't be here. And that's just the reality of it. And I'm learning to come and manage those as best I can, learning to meditate into those things and really feel what the driver is so I can get to those rude understanding and having some guidance doing so. Like if you've got mental health issues, this isn't something that you need to tackle on your own. Like having a professional that can help guide you on that introspective journey is something like It's not like, hey, I'm a big tough guy, I can handle everything.”

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  11. “And so that's how in those early days, that's how I did it. Not saying it's the best approach, but it was survivor mentality. It was. I can't selfishly do that because I have them to take care of. And then that continued where I would keep putting myself in these leadership roles or other things and always being this person that was. At the center, at the hub Forced me to be there. And so it's only in the more recent, you know, last decade or so that I have had to really learn how to come and start confronting some of those demons.”

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  12. “Yeah, so the things that I did that people give me accolades for are the things that I did selfishly to save myself Things like taking custody of my sisters, being the person that everybody around the important people relied on. The fact that I had to step to the plate and be present and be that person. Because if I failed, They failed. They would be like the people that I grew up with that are dead. In prison Or on drugs, and they're either way to one of those. That's where everybody ended. And I wasn't going to let that happen.”

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  13. “Almost certainly. And it's something I've continued like in my father's side has been really tough on that because some of it is just base genetic as well. So my stepfather made, I think, six or seven attempts on his life during his lifetime, one of those in front of me. His mother blew her head off with a shotgun. Her brother jumped out a window in LA. Their father did something similar, and I don't know how far back it goes because there is no family except for me and my children.”

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  14. “There might have been some anger Yes, and I still do. And she's taught me basically everything I know about strength and perseverance and living life on your terms and being able to create that. And so much of what I am is from that, right? We've all had to learn to Be okay with the way she is because she is just blunt. But, you know, she's the one that Figured out that the human trafficking situation and got the DA involved and got all the She's the one that I've learned a lot from her”

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  15. “He wasn't capable of managing life. And my mom had a mental breakdown and took off to Montana and he descended into madness even worse. Actually took my 13-year-old sister and kicked her out in the middle of winter, couple feet of snow on the ground because he thought she stole his favorite cereal bowl Type. So that's when I took in and was going to college, putting myself through college, and I started taking custody of my sisters and raising them. So anyway, we're still like very... Very tight family. It took, there was a few years later in life that the connection with my mother was kind of broken. I didn't speak to her for years because of her basically abandoning my sisters and me having to come in. But we've worked through that as best we can.”

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  16. “Ran around the wilderness and bare feet all the time, you know, but it was, I had a lot of great moments, and I'm thankful for a lot of that childhood once we take out the trauma and the other stuff associated with it, right? And so the connection that I have with my sisters is huge. That goes a bit further because I am kind of like a little bit of a father figure because I was at home raising them and then later I took custody of them while I was going to school because the environment at home deteriorated further. Their stepfather, like I said, was...”

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  17. “Outside of the living around dangerous people and the interactions that came from that, we were a family. Like we were a cohesive unit battling against the world together. We spent all our time together, work, play. I was there. I was helping raise my siblings or I was working with them. And it was a constant. Like I said, we were very physically active. So, you know, I had that in my upbringing. Plug for my SU company, barefoot.”

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  18. “Talk about that stuff in obviously not all that's in the book. But they got us back, moved to Oregon, and they stayed out of the drug trade from that time to ensure that they didn't lose us again, but quickly we kind of fell back into the same thing. So at that point, it was learning about geology and starting to do mining. And Firewood cutting, but mostly the mining because Pat's broken arm chainsaw made a little tough.”

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  19. “Payment because he had a broken arm that whole time from an accident a long time ago and finally got an award and got a down payment on this mobile home that didn't have again doors on the inside. It did have running water. It did have electricity. It didn't have a kitchen. The windows would crank clothes and open, but they wouldn't close all the way. So the trim them in with plastic to be able to try to protect from the elements. That was my environment. Learning how to forge from mushrooms. I mean, there were summers I would send and my parents would be out. They were in the drug trade earlier. We got taken by the police and put into foster care for a while, which ties into some of the stories with human trafficking. And honestly, it's in my book, but it's really hard for me to.”

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  20. “That's it, right? You want to take a bath that's filling up the jug in the stream and setting it out on the rocks during the sun so you can dump it over your head. And, you know, not all the living was that way. You know, good part was similar to that, tent living, living in a 16-foot trailer with a family of six, which is not much bigger than the space that we're sitting here. So we're talking hard winters with feet of snow on the ground, nowhere to go. I'm living in the back of the pickup truck in just a standard sleeping bag that we get from the Salvation Army, not the blow zero. So I'm not sleeping well. There's living in homes that were maybe condemned. There's no doors even on them. No electricity are running water or one or the other or both. And sometimes a little bit better. By the time we got to high school, we had a mobile home. So my stepfather had won a disability.”

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  21. “We're living by a stream, you know, off a meadow. There's no roads into where you have to hike in. And we've got beams lashed into the trees up above us because that's where our bedding is because there's rattlesnake dens all around. And six years old. I'm being taught how to capture and handle live rattlesnakes because that's what I need to do to be safe. And you can imagine six years old sitting there with a live rattlesnake in your hand grabbing it by the side of the head, controlling so it can't bite you. And it's just wrapping itself around your arm. And you're staring at it. It's only intent is right then is to kill you.”

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  22. “Get into successfully growing marijuana, which back in that wasn't legal back then, highly illegal. And in fact, those areas were some of the areas where it lived were quite dangerous. So there's a documentary murder mountain that came out recently. If you watch that, you'll tie into my book just the understanding of the stuff that I was talking about dealing with serial killers, human trafficking, police corruption, murderers, like just how real that stuff is if it doesn't capture you from the book. Okay.”

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  23. “Definitely outside the scope of the norm. Well, today, maybe not 150 or 200 years ago. But my parents, highly intelligent, you know, people coming out of the Bay Area, my mom was going to school to be a chemical engineer. She was a top student athlete graduated of her school. My father was a member of MINSA. My stepfather was just a genius, but not able to really function in society. But my mom was You know, she had some demons and some other stuff and just she just said one day she's like, I just don't want to be part of society. She still isn't, lives out in the desert, but has her minds, but she wanted to figure out a way to make a life outside of that. And so that's where we ended up is up in the mountains in Northern California. And a lot of that was, you know, them trying to.”

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  24. “Of everything. Everybody always wants to focus on the output. How do you give me the fix for that? It ties right back into all those other things, right? But yeah, the Eastern bloc continued to be a dominant force in regards to athletics and strength athletics, without a doubt. Some of my big rivals in my competitive days were, that's who it was.”

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  25. “So, I'm not sure what his particular issues are, but he has held the all time world record repeatedly for a long time, and he hasn't competed for some time, and he just reached out saying he would like to come and have me take a look and see if I can get him fixed because he needs to return.”

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  26. “Not just that thing. So that's the thing. It's like, oh, that must be when we say singularity of focus, it's not like here's it because it covers a vast array of stuff. Like I was working with people around North America. I wouldn't say anybody around the globe, but professionals coming in working on different aspects of rehab and recovery and like, I mean, I'm tapping all sorts of stuff in so many platforms from nutrition to drugs to, again, like, you know, various Chinese medicine, you know, as far as, you know, but also.”

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  27. “The level to try to go from there is not acceptable for what you, the impacts that it'll have on your life or how you want to live. And it was taking away those final, like I had to do extreme things and live in an extreme way to get there.”

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  28. “I won't deny that. And the sadness comes in the singularity. Of focus that I had at that time. The being in the process. Not necessarily doing, but like having being in this place that the rest of the world kind of fell away from me in those final phases to have something so intense, to have a team around me so focused on supporting and like. Took me a couple months after that squad. I finally one day woke up and I was like. Oh. Welcome back to the world. Like, I was in such a mental fog, like I was. It took me a while to climb out of that, but that space, that level of intensity and drive and living and being in that space. I do miss that, but I also can't continue that. I couldn't continue, like there's a point of like, you push it so hard.”

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  29. “I knew that this was one way to express that, and my grand goals have shifted to other outlets that allow me to express that. Like my companies, Kabuki strength, I'm going to change the face of fitness as well as all the way through with its integration with clinical medicine and telemedicine. And, you know, I got another five years before even people see what I'm working on. I'm five years in right now because I had to invent equipment. I have to develop methodologies that we're talking. I had to do this stuff that ground layer wasn't done to create a cohesive ecosystem of training methodology tied to the tools that we're using to the environment tied to the clinical practice assessment tied to the The interaction between all those and how that actually needs to be reframed because so much of this is broken. But there is sadness”

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  30. “The greatest physician, yes But that was an expression of some of my values and the way that I want to live. It was a way of expressing it. So understanding that is hugely fundamental. Because we do see so many athletes get to the end of a career and then they fall into a depressive state and struggle with drugs, alcohol, depression, so on because they lost how they identified themselves and trying to figure out where to turn what to do. But a big central component of their identity is lost.”

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  31. “So good question, but it is certainly not the greatest thing that I'll ever do. It's the greatest physical. There's always more.”

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  32. “I left on my terms, and that's unique because that's usually not the case. Usually you kind of either taper out or it doesn't matter. I'm talking like anything in life in general, right? You taper out, you fail, you hurt, like you lose something, you roll into retirement.”

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  33. “There's always more. So understand this. This is a basic fundamental. You can always do better. There is no such thing as perfection. You could always. There is always more. So anytime you read something, any amazing workout or accomplishment in life, could you have put more into it? Could even yes. Here's the thing I left on my terms. I said, This is it. I'm going to work towards, I've been training for 30 years. I'm going to do this thing that is unlike I couldn't even say that I was going to do it years before. I'm going to do it, and then I'm done. I didn't leave from an injury. I wasn't forced. I wasn't. I left. I did exactly what I said. I went to a level that I”

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  34. “How did it feel? How did it feel? I started crying. It was overwhelming to have worked so intensely and so long and hard at something that pushed every ounce of me to the limit And I did it. I'm getting a little emotional. I did exactly what I said. I was going to fucking do. And it was overpowering. I mean, I was just crying uncontrollably. Just with a mixture of I don't know what the mixture of emotions is hard to explain because it was the completion of something. It was a new phase of it.”

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  35. “There's a documentary that's got a little slowed because of COVID, because it's also a backstory of The Eagle and the Dragon, my book, about why I do kind of the things that I've done in my life. That's what I'm assuming the director's working on. I don't really have the control of the movie, right?”

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  36. “Yes, it is. Yeah. It came out just time to the music perfectly too. It's just I listened to some odd music, which there's some reason behind that.”

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  37. “Oh, well, the movie's. So we actually have the final footage of that, the good footage, not posted yet. So it's literally just an Instagram video or a phone video right now, the only one online.”

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  38. “But you weren't using it because your traction control was on. Now you figure this out stuff and now you start stacking it and now you can see so much greater. So it's not just injury prevention. This is performance. Additive performance over time. This is huge, and people don't really think about this stuff, but we can turn that stuff off, which is actually going to also, again, make us safer. But what we want to do is the performance tune race car. Do they have a traction control button? No, they got some amazing tires to grip the ground, a performance tuned suspension, and that driver's going to put his foot to the metal. He's going to put it to the floor. That's a performance vehicle. That's what we want to be.”

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  39. “We don't have good stability or loss of connection somewhere. And so I need to save you from crashing and hurting yourself. And so it goes to the engine and says, let's retard the timing. Let's reduce the shift patterns. And we're just reducing the power output. And that's straight how the human body works. So when I do this stuff, it's actually affecting that. I mean, I can take somebody and do some minute changes with the neck position at the thoracic outlet. Okay. and immediately see an enhancement in power output and i can measure it we measure this stuff uh with uh velocity uh devices and see like a 10 jump and so if you think about that what about all your training through the years where you actually had additional capacity”

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  40. “Get in a car, modern car today, and a lot of them will have this traction control button in there, and there's a big misconception that I'm out and it's snowy or here in Austin, only rainy. Well, probably doesn't rain much, but you're going around a corner, starts slipping. It's like, oh, it's going to send the powers from the wheels that are slipping to the ones that are gripping. And keep me from crashing and dying a fiery death. Well, that's not how it works. It's the exact same. We've got the tires, which are our foot, you know, the connection to the ground, right? We've got the power driver, which is the engine, the transmission delivering, you know, the power through it. And we've got the stability or suspension. And then we have the neurology. And what the neurology is doing, it's sensing.”

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  41. “If I'm not managing this because it's your spine. So for those who are just listening, I'm arching and then flexing, that's going to affect shoulder extension flexion, all these sorts of things. So it could even affect things down of what's looking at dorsaflexion issues on the foot. And then that's why I go to the foot next because it has the second largest global impact. And then from there, now I'm going to look at the big energy drivers, which would be hip complex, shoulder complex. And then we can start looking at kind of the peripheral things, but usually that's some sort of output of the other. But the knees, the elbows, the things like that. So it's all about getting the stack, which affects neurology. So let's talk an engineering terms.”

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  42. “So it's all about getting the joints in the appropriate position so that we can manage load so that we're not putting undue stress in the joint. We're getting the proper length tension. We're getting these basic fundamental things with the body. And so the largest global impact that you will have is through spinal mechanics. I can't look at a shoulder”

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  43. “Like, this is how we function. This is why we work with 29 of the 30 major league baseball teams and 90% of all professional sports out there in North America. Sorry, although we do some work with Tour de France and other stuff as well. And North America, I do mean hockey too. But these principles, if the Dodgers won't bring us in, they're not learning how to. Power lift You know, we're going to obviously, we'll probably be do a little bit more shoulder focus than hip focus with their athletes or their coaches. We're usually working with coaches, not the athletes.”

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  44. “Really complicated, and it is if we try to break down and distill it all, but let's just find the basic stuff that gets us in the range, start working, and then find the next as we add load. Now we find where's our next area that we're starting to fault at and then go there again next. So this is what we do, what we teach in our educational platform. So we are the only, I believe, everybody wants to do a lot of these like assessments. You know, on a bench, on a table. And it's like, no, let's go squat. Let's go deadlift. If you do strawmen and a COR carry, let's yoke carry. Because these are basic human fundamentals. It's not powerlifting.”

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  45. “So, the best way, and I believe it's because I hate just people getting out and just doing just movement stuff and not actually adding load because we only adapt when there's load. Maybe we can get some, you know, some proprioception or awareness of position and other stuff doing some corrective patterns and other stuff. But this is basic physiology is that there must be an imposed demand for us to have adaptation. And this is mental. This is emotional. This is all these areas, but and people miss that. So I prefer to be able to look at a person, and this is our methodology and do the assessment in any basic loaded movement. So with developing an eye for that, you can actually see and go, okay, we've got a fault pattern right here in the foot and use a queue or a set of queues. Doesn't merely matter until we find the one that works and bring that. And now we know we want to simplify this. Stuff I just walk through this.”

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  46. “Into this, and we're kind of progressing and tightening all this stuff towards that center to create that entire torso stability. That's why I was using torso stability, not just core stability in my conversation earlier.”

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  47. “So, this allows us to use this massive, the hip complex for all the muscles around that that are built to drive through hip extension to complete the squat. I did actually miss one thing in there. So this torso, people often miss. The lat is a spinal stabilizer as well. So that's key in controlling function at the TL junction, which is just above the lumbar spine. So kind of right opposite where your sternum is. And you'll see people kind of roll over sometimes like in an Olympic squad or something like that where they lose position. And that's often because they're close grip because you can't engage the lats very well that way and they're pushing up in the bar. But you want to be able to drive and pull the bar to your center and that's going to create and use the lats now to drive and connect the shoulder.”

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  48. “So it's actually this connection to the ground and how we're actually using the foot and ankle complex to grab and grip this connection to the ground and elicit an effect. And because of this and then everything between will naturally kind of do what it needs to do. So people like to focus on knee position or how far out their hips are or all this other stuff, which is outputs of this. So if we control the torso and the knee, the only thing that can happen from that point is for the squat to happen.”

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  49. “Our bicep is not as strong, and all the way in the curl position it's not in strong. There's somewhere in here that's this control of both. And so when you're sitting there arched or bent over, we have muscles that are past either one of those ranges. So they've got a lot of tension, which then will create relaxation on the other side, right? So we want to have, and all of that needs to be working. And now the next important thing is the foot.”

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  50. “It into their chest and raise their rib cage. So what we want to do is just initiate the diaphragm. Air can be used as well over the top at the final to create just a little bit more downward pressure. But if we have out of alignment there, we have a pressure leak where it's going to be push out the front or the rear if you're either inflection or extension. All right, and then that causes this co contraction and all this pressure of the organs essentially against outward, against all those tissue for the co-contraction as well as surrounding the spine to be able to stabilize that and then it puts all the muscles on both sides of the body in what we call the best length tension relationship. So if you think about a curl and we reach our arm out at the extended length”

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