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Season 3, Episode 7: Center of Attention The Center of Mass and Movement Efficiency Don't miss this VISUAL podcast: Watch the YouTube Raise your hand if you’ve heard this before; the center of mass of a body, and its current relationship to a line of force, will have a significant impact on how efficiently that body moves.  If you’ve heard it, it very well may have been from us, about two episodes ago in The Forest Through The Trees (Season 3, Episode 5).  It’s not that we’ve run out of ideas already, it’s that we feel this information is so important to helping you make quality movement decisions, whether in sport or exercise, that we wanted to double down, elucidate further and provide some clear imagery so you can visualize what we’re explaining.   Things like plates on a bench press or the speed on a treadmill are things we can see and make sense of with our naked eye.  As with joint torques, the center of mass (COM), center of gravity (COG) and ground reaction forces (GRF) are not visually detectabl