Exam Revision

Muscles

Muscle Types

List:

Function

List:

Fibre types

Fast and Slow Twitch

Questions: When under taking the sport of high jump, what muscles do you mainly use? What muscle fibre type is best suited to a marathon runner?

Skeletal

Functions

List:

Questions:

Describe, using appropriate terminology, how the skeletal system supports (pardon the pun) the body?

Explain the relationship between the shape of bones and their function:

Joints

Types

Movement

Types:

Questions:

Subtopic

Body Types

Endomorph

Characteristics:

Ectomorph

Characteristics:

Mesomorph

Characteristics:

Questions:

What body type is best for shot put and why?

What body type is best for fast bowling and why? (Cricket)

Movement

Types of body movement

Contractions: Isotonic and Isometric

Questions

A plank is why type of contraction? What muscles are being used? Explain your rationale.

Performance

Acute

Chronic

Increase HR/Sweat/Shortness of Breath, Cramps, Adrenaline, Tiredness, Lactic Acid, Increase body temp, Energy loss, Micro-trauma Question: Describe the acute responses to an athlete completing a 100m sprint:

Injuries

Types

Major

Minor

Impact on performance

Questions:

Describe a major injury that would impact heavily on an athletes ability to move.

Have you had a minor injury? Describe how this impacted you ability to participate in your favourite activity?

Extended Response: You miss your bus on the way home. The only way to get home is to run to the EFS R-6 Campus to catch another bus. Describe what happens to your body, with reference to acute responses to physical activity, throughout this scenario.

Justify which body type would get you to the R-6 the fastest?