Anatomy and physiology for exercise
Watch this video on ‘Sliding filament theory in muscle contraction’ from the Wellcome Trust.
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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