Applied anatomy and physiology for exercise, health and fitness
This video from Teach PE is titled ‘Sliding Filament Theory Of Muscle Contraction Explained’. Sliding filament theory explains how muscles contract at a cellular level.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘How your heart works’ from the British Heart Foundation
- ‘Atherosclerosis (arteriosclerosis)’ from the NHS
- ‘The Importance of Correct Breathing During Exercise and the Valsalva Effect.’ on the Harton Sports Centre website
- ‘Joints actions and planes of movement’ on the PT Direct website
- ‘Common joint and muscle injuries’ from Elastoplast
- ‘The physiology of skeletal muscle contraction’ on the PT Direct website
- ‘Muscle types’ from Brian Mac
- ‘Parts of the nervous system’ on the Brain Facts website
- ‘Hormonal (endocrine) system’ on the Better Health Channel
- Presentation
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Skeleton, muscles and tissues'.
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Heart and blood'.
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Inside the body'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read Structure and function of muscle fibers and motor units ‘’ by Mary Kay Floeter originally published in the Disorders of Voluntary Muscle, Eighth Edition by the Cambridge University Press.
- Click to read this presentation on ‘Stretch reflex and Golgi tendon reflex’ by Laiche Djouhri from King Saud University.
- The British Society of Gastroenterology has produced this document on ‘Healthy eating and the digestive system’.
- This article from L1 Online is about ‘Muscle fibres and how to develop them’.
- The Loughborough College has an article on ‘Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)’.
- Think And Challenge
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