Baker & Newton (2004) postulate that balance between the agonist and antagonist muscle groups is essential for improving performance and injury prevention purposes. Negrete et al. (2013) examined the upper body push and pull strength ratio in 180 recreationally active males and females adults using timed push-ups and timed modified pull-ups. The test protocols consisted of 3 maximal sets of 15 seconds for both push-ups and modified pull-ups. The average of the 3 maximal sets was calculated and the
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circuit. By the end of the day I was sore, but not as sore as I remembered I was last year. After the first day was over, I took a warm shower and before I went to sleep I stretched. I learned from last year that if you don’t stretch your muscles, your muscles will get more sore. I woke up the next day and my legs were a bit more sore than the previous day. June 30th was the first time that we wrote in our notebooks and took our heart rate. There are two main ways to take your heart rate, but one
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affects muscle performance and overall health, but in some cases, this technique can increase risk of injury. This method to enhance the performance of muscles has been proven to have a significant effect on elite athletes. There are three main types of muscles: skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle. With the skeletal system, the muscular system provides humans with the ability to lift objects, run to class, and participate in their favorite sport. SMR has shown to improve muscle by reducing
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great workout, it does so with a dramatically reduced incidence of injury compared to sports like running. Swimming provides a full body workout. No matter what stroke you prefer, swimming uses all the muscles in the body. Additionally, it places extra emphasis on the upper body and on your core muscles compared to sports like running. The water provides natural resistance. Working out in water means your body has to work harder. A 30 minute work out in the pool is worth as much as 45 minutes of
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examining the force the pelvis and erector spinae muscles exert on the spine. In order to find the force of the muscle exerts on the spine we must now refer back to Table 2. As mentioned earlier the net torque of the spinal system is 0, so the counterclockwise torques must be equal to the clockwise torque because there is no rotation taking place. In knowing this, we were able to create the equation ⅔ FM (sin 12°) + (FS)(sin) = ½ (mg) to find the muscle force at the three angles. After calculating each
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Background: As Americans, many of us exercise daily. Our bodies need energy to perform these daily exercises. In my Biology 101 class, we discussed how our bodies go through the process of making the food we consume turn into the energy we need. We learned that the body can go through two different metabolic pathways known as, aerobic or anaerobic metabolism. Aerobic metabolism makes energy with the presence of oxygen, while anaerobic creates energy without oxygen. Exercising causes our internal
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Over the years it has been evident that physical activity increase the amount of mitochondria in the in order to compensate for the energy expenditure during exercise. However the molecular mechanisms of this process is becoming clear only very recently. Mitochondrial biogenesis is also considered as a mjor tool that is repnsible for maintaining the mitochondrial number within the cell. And it is not only a change in number of the mitochondria but it is also responsible for maintainignthe mitochondrial
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Effect of Substances on the Heart Rate of a Daphnia Magna Lab Report Katherine Schmucker WCCC/Semester 2 A&P 2/Bio-072 Dr. Matthew Sisak February 6, 2015 Introduction: The substances that were applied to the Daphnia were aspirin, nasal spray, adrenalin, acetylcholine, and alka seltzer (College, p. 42). Aspirin’s active additive is acetyl salicylic acid (Henderson, n.d.). The nasal spray’s active additive is “therapeutic (Administration, 2002).” Adrenalin’s active additive is “acid tartrate
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I chose to summarize this review article to understand the reasons behind exercising a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Prior to the reading, my knowledge of stress echos only covered the bases of diagnosing coronary artery disease. This review focuses on the patient’s subjective complaints and its correlation with sudden death from HCM. It’s common for us to see patient with HCM and to perform Valsalva maneuvers to check for LVOT obstruction with increased velocities. However,
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