Great boxers win with their feet before their hands. Position beats power.

Where you stand decides what is available to you, and it is settled before anything visible happens. Most contests are lost in the setup, in the wrong room at the wrong time, and force applied later cannot recover it. Power is what people watch, and position is what determines whether the power lands.

Before the effort, look at the arrangement, who is in the room, when you ask, what you have in place. Spend some of your preparation on getting into a better spot rather than trying harder from a bad one. Small positional changes outperform large increases in effort.