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What factors do personal trainers typically fall into? - ✔️✔️reinforcing factors
Some things added to life to invoke positive change? - ✔️✔️taking time for meaningful reflection,
reading a book, socializing with friends and family, adding a physical component and healthy
eating to daily living
What areas of exercise therapy would require a highly trained exercise physiologist or physician
to prescribe appropriate regiments? - ✔️✔️cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, joint
injury, or obesity/metabolic disorders including diabetes and hypertension
Muscle purpose - ✔️✔️Produce force, maintain posture, allow for movement and produce heat
All muscle action originates and is controlled by? - ✔️✔️the brain which sends and receives
signals through the nervous system
What gets pulled during a muscle contraction? - ✔️✔️tendons, the strong CT that connects
muscles to bones
Two parts of a muscle - ✔️✔️origin and insertion
Muscle origin - ✔️✔️the point at which the muscle joins the stationary bone
closest to the center of the body
Muscle insertion - ✔️✔️the point at which muscle joins "moving boat" when a muscle contracts
the insertion moves TOWARD the origin
,How many muscles in the average adult body? - ✔️✔️656
STATEMENT - ✔️✔️muscles are joined together to form muscle groups to execute bodily
movement
they CAN get shorter but CANNOT push
STATEMENT - ✔️✔️In muscle groups, when one group pulls the other group pulls back and as
one team pulls the other team relaxes
Muscle types - ✔️✔️skeletal, smooth, cardiac
Two subtypes of muscles - ✔️✔️involuntary and voluntary
how many muscles are voluntary and how many bones do they control? - ✔️✔️430 voluntary
muscles controlling 206 bones
What types of muscles are voluntary? - ✔️✔️skeletal
What type of muscles are involuntary? - ✔️✔️smooth AND cardiac including:
cardiovascular tissue
heart
blood vessels
lining of the internal and respiratory tracts
What internal system supplies muscles with the necessary oxygen and nutrients to survive? -
✔️✔️cardiorespiratory system
Bones in the adult body? - ✔️✔️206, born with 350
, 5 major functions of the skeletal system - ✔️✔️Protect vital organs
Sports our bodies framework giving us an upright and vertical shape
Produces red and white blood cells in the bone marrow
Stores minerals and fat
Releases minerals into the blood as needed
largest bone in the body - ✔️✔️femur
what are the rounded nodules, or outgrowths, on bones that generally act as sites for muscle
insertions? - ✔️✔️Tubercles
ex: tibial tuberosity creates an attachment point for the patellar ligament
What is a joint? - ✔️✔️location at two or more bones, come together for movement and
mechanical support
What is a ligament? - ✔️✔️Strong stretchy bands of fibrous tissue that hold joints together
What is cartilage? - ✔️✔️covers the end of each bone and is a tough flexible CT that has a
smooth, shiny surface
What is the name of the slippery fluid located between bones? - ✔️✔️Synovial fluid
keeps bones from scratching and bumping against each other during movement
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