Why is your body less prone to breaking when you fall/ get thrown hard when you are relaxed?

Question

Why is your body safer and less prone to breaking when you are relaxed when you hit something at high speeds or with great force?

In: Biology

Answer 1

You absorb more of the force when you are relaxed. Think about it like dropping a box of spaghetti from a roof. If the spaghetti is uncooked it is much more brittle and a lot of it will be broken from the fall. If it’s cooked, it’s the same object but now more flimsy and it will be relatively unaffected from the fall.