Anatomy and physiology for exercise and health
Identify the action for each muscle, the origin, insertion and movement. Now practice each one and feel each working as you do the movement.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Atherosclerosis’ from the British Heart Foundation
- ‘Heart valve disease’ on the BUPA website
- ‘Blood pressure chart’ on the Blood Pressure UK website
- ‘Muscle contraction and sliding filament theory’ from Teach PE
- ‘Muscular system’ on the Get Body Smart website
- ‘Core stability’ from Physiopedia
- ‘Posture’ from Physiopedia
- ‘Types of stretching exercises’ on the Sports Injury Clinic
- ‘Types of stretching’ from the University of Bath
- ‘Nerve impulse and its transmission’ on the TOPPR website
- ‘Muscle stretch reflex’ from Teach Me Physiology website
- ‘Endocrine’ from Teach Me Physiology website
- ‘How your muscles work: The energy systems used during exercise’ from Fitness Genes
- Presentation
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Heart and muscles'.
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'The body'.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ’The aerobic and anaerobic energy systems’ from the Sports Performance Bulletin website.
- This document from the International Triathlon Union is an ‘Energy and training module’.
- Identify the action for each muscle, the origin, insertion and movement. Now practice each one and feel each working as you do the movement.
- Go away and put together a core stability programme and practice keeping neutral alignment whilst performing exercises
- Before, after and during rest days perform stretches of static, dynamic and find someone to practice PNF stretching on
- Think And Challenge
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