Energy leaks are performance robbing, energy sapping inefficiencies in your movement. If you are a runner, you are losing energy that is supposed to be propelling you forward. A golfer looses yardage on a drive. A hockey player can't skate as fast. you get the idea. Often, energy leaks occur where the body transfers energy from bottom to top; your core A.K.A. your transmission. Energy leaks also occur when areas that are supposed to be stable are mobile or vice versa. Example: your need mobility in your hips to run well but, for some reason, it is lacking. That mobility has to come from somewhere so it comes from, let's say, your lumbar region which is supposed to be playing a stable role. Now energy is "leaking" as it tries to transfer between your upper and lower body. How do you plug the leak? A Functional Movement Screen (FMS) can help reveal where your leaks are. Properly prescribed exercises can then be used to address them. Voila! Energy conserved.
Here is a real life example: A client who is a rec. hockey player comes to me, we run through the screen, see the issues and prescribe targeted exercises focused on improving his recruitment patterns (fundamental motor patterns). After doing his homework for 2 weeks he emails me to comment on how he felt a noticeable difference in his energy levels both during and after his last hockey game. Did he do any cardio work? No. Is he using the energy available to him more efficiently because he is moving better? No doubt. Has he improved his fitness? I guess it depends how you define "fitness"
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