Anatomy and physiology for exercise
Watch this video from London Leisure College covers ‘Joint Actions’. You do not need to answer the questions but you can make notes on the different actions.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Understanding how your heart functions’ from the NHS Inform website
- ‘How your lungs work’ from the British Lung Foundation
- ‘Gas exchange’ on the Teach Me Physiology website.
- ‘The vertebral column’ on the Team Me Anatomy website
- ‘Joint actions and planes of movement’ on the P T Direct website
- ‘Skeletal muscle’ from the Biology Dictionary
- ‘Energy systems in action’ on the P T Direct website
- ‘What is a motor unit? How a muscle contracts’ from Parallel Coaching
- ‘Muscle contractions: How neurotransmitters and chemical reactions move muscles and bones’ on the Visible Body website
- ‘Pelvic floor anatomy’ on the Physiopedia website
- Presentation
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Heart, lung, and blood vessels'.
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Bones'.
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Anatomy'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read this research ‘The acute effects of whole-body corrective exercise on postural alignment’ written by N Rencher, J D George, P R Vehrs, S E Ridge and G W Fellingham ofr Brigham Young University
- This article from Blood Pressure UK is called ‘Exercise and activity lower blood pressure’.
- Spend some time doing exercises or sporting actions for each joint action to understand what it feels like; it will help explain better to clients as doing always goes in to the mind better.
- Extended Learning
- Think And Challenge
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