 Question is from Nick DeFitness. What are some cues that can help a client who can't hip hinge and keep their back flat? Oh, it's kind of similar, right? Well, I also gave, uh, so I think this, this video is supposed to go up. I think, uh, it goes up this week. Uh, I think it was the, I said the, the, the number one controversial tip for deadlifting and rose, and it's the stick your ass out cue, uh, that a lot of coaches don't like. Um, but personally, I, I have found a lot of value in that queue for the average person to get, to understand how to get their, their, keep their back flat. Because the most common thing when someone bends over to do a row or bends over to do a barbell, salt the back. Yeah. They round at the back and they don't slide the hips back. And so the stick your ass out and slide your hips back cue has been the, the number one cue for me to get that across to a client. Now I understand that if you, if you have an excessive anterior pelvic tilt and then you, and then you stick your ass out any, even more, you could be risking some, you know, you know, a pinched nerve or shearing in the low back. Uh, but so it's very, as a coach, the answer or a person listening, it's, if it hurts your low back, you're doing it wrong, right? But if you feel comfortable and that cue helps, it's helped out more people than it's done harm. This is where I too, I like using props like a stick to run down the spine and, and mainly to then also if you're drying in your abs and you're pushing your lower back into the stick, like that's a tangible feedback that you're getting like, okay, I'm not breaking, uh, there's not a gap now between the stick and my lower back. And also too, to be able to kind of be close to the wall, but not completely close to where, uh, you know, there's, I tell them to have a soft knee. So it's like just barely flexed. And then I want to try and touch my butt to the, to the wall. Oh, that's a great. That's a great idea. I've actually never used that. Cause again, another, the stick, the wall or just feedback tools. It makes it feedback. Yeah. We did a video, we did a YouTube video. I did a video, I did a YouTube video on the stick. So, uh, and I think that's one of the most, I learned that at a certification course back in like 2004 or five. And after that I carried a PVC pipe around with me everywhere as a trainer and like almost every, you know, first client or early client that I got in the first week or two, I would bring that out to teach hip hinging because I think that, that is probably one of the most powerful. It's hard too. Like just to keep those three points of contact, you're putting the spit, the stick down the back of their spine and it goes all the way from their head down to their butt and you're telling them to keep their hips con, uh, connected to it. They're, they're low back and they're upper back and head tucked and everything. Yeah. To make it happen. Oh, and then to bend over to grab. It's really hard. It's really hard to do it. Yeah. One of, now why is hip hinging important? Well, uh, when you're bending over to do certain exercises like a barbell row, or you're doing a deadlift or a good morning or stiff legged deadlift especially, or just because it's a, it's a fundamental way of bending over. It's a very important, uh, movement. And if you don't do it well or don't know how to do it, your risk of low back injury goes through the roof. So you can't do certain exercises and you have a higher risk of injury. So this is an important thing, uh, to learn one of the cues that I like to tell people because I would tell people like, okay, we're going to have you bend over a little bit, don't have people bend over too much because sometimes their hamstrings are so tight that they are unable to, uh, to hip hinge. So I'll tell them bend over a little bit, maybe 45 degrees, maybe even a little higher. And then I'd say stick your butt out. If that didn't work, I'd say stick your chest out. Sometimes people understand sticking out the chest and they can't understand sticking out the butt. So I'd say, okay, and you can you stick your butt out and they'll, they'll like, you know, you can tell that you don't know what's going on and say, okay, stick out your chest, really pull your shoulder back, stick your chest out, but don't stand up, stay bent over. And then automatically they would get into that hip hinge position. Then I'd say, okay, keep your chest stuck out, stand up, and then bend back over and hold that position. And then they'd start to kind of pick up what that feels like. Yeah, to kind of piggyback on that. That's where I would have like people put their hands behind their lower back, like a waiter's bow. And so that way they are kind of, you know, placing their shoulders in that position by also like folding their hands on their lower back. And then it kind of helps them to, you know, maintain that sort of rigid back. It's just crazy how we lose, because if you don't do these movements on a regular basis, you'll lose the ability to really be able to do them naturally. And that can cause a lot of problems. And this is true for almost any movement. You've got to practice these things and hip hinging is very important.