Champions Digest December 2018 | Page 4

FITNESS & NUTRITION MATT PALAZOLLA FITNESS PERFORMANCE 1 2 3 4 5 5 KEYS TO FORCE PRODUCTION SPATIAL AWARENESS Having the ability to understand where you are in space, and how your body adapts to specific demands. STABILITY Making sure you’re capable of accepting, decelerating, and adequately displacing load STRENGTH Once load has been accepted and displaced, this is your ability to hold this position and begin to reuse that energy TORQUE (ROTATIONAL EFFICIENCY) From ball and socket torque created bilaterally in a squat to the rotational dynamics of the upper body and lower body in gait, torque is essential SPEED Power and force are produced by our ability to move as quickly as we can, through optimal range of motion, with as little of an energy leak as possible