The human body has various systems and structures that play essential roles in physical performance and movement. Joints are crucial for enabling movement, with different types such as hinge and ball-and-socket joints allowing various ranges of motion.
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?
Exam Revision
Injuries
Have you had a minor injury? Describe how this impacted you ability to participate in your favourite activity?
Describe a major injury that would impact heavily on an athletes ability to move.
Impact on performance
Minor
Major
Performance
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:
Chronic
Acute
Questions
A plank is why type of contraction? What muscles are being used? Explain your rationale.
Contractions: Isotonic and Isometric
Types of body movement
Body Types
What body type is best for fast bowling and why? (Cricket)
What body type is best for shot put and why?
Mesomorph
Ectomorph
Endomorph
Characteristics:
Joints
Subtopic
Movement
Types:
Types
Skeletal
Questions:
Explain the relationship between the shape of bones and their function:
Describe, using appropriate terminology, how the skeletal system supports (pardon the pun) the body?
Functions
Muscles
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?