Peter Attia

It's not just a balance thing, right?

It's that they're undergoing the same insult you and I undergo on a daily basis, but the difference is their probability of being able to catch it, either through the explosiveness of their foot or their lower leg, coupled with maybe not being able to grab onto something as quickly and adjust.

It's a power deficit problem.

So so I mean I use certain specialized pieces of equipment that actually have power built into it because power is different from strength, right?

So strength is really the ability to is just the ability to move a force independent of the speed at which you move it power is the maximum Combination of force and speed, okay

So if you, on the X axis, if you were to put force and on the Y axis, if you were to put power, the curve is an inverted U. So as the force or the weight that you're moving goes up and you're trying to move it as fast as you can, you're getting more and more and more and more power.

But then at some point, the weight gets so heavy that even as you continue to move it, it's going slower and slower and slower, so your power is going down.

So there's a sweet spot there.

So one of the things I do is there are certain specialized pieces of equipment that allow you to train in that way.

So I definitely rely on a lot of those.

But even if you don't have access to that machine, jumping is a really important way to generate power.

So if you're just doing a vertical jump, that's power.

There are lots of exercises that are great for balance.

Anything that produces instability is great because it's, you know, for lack of a better term, I've heard it described as problem solving for your foot.

Okay.

Right?

So if you think about being on any unstable surface, even if you're just walking on an unstable surface, so if you were to –

look at a person's foot their lower leg actually as they're walking on a surface that's constantly changing so like a gravel path or something like that you're going to see like if this were my lower leg you would see the musculature of the lower leg constantly adjusting to it and so yeah i'm i really enjoy things that force that type of training do you do flexibility stuff this is

Yeah, so I'm actually naturally a pretty lax person.

So I don't do any stretching, if that's what you're asking.