This course is designed for students who need a deeper understanding of human muscle physiology and its affect on our movement and health. You will learn the essentials of human movement including the operation of muscles and nerves, movements and reactions observed in the body, the nervous system, motor skills, and more. Additionally the relationships between muscular strength, endurance and flexibility are explored.
Who is this course for:
This course is great for anyone working in sports or movement fields who needs to have a more in depth knowledge of how muscles affect movement such as fitness instructions, sports coaches, yoga and Pilates teachers.
Prerequisites: Prior knowledge of human anatomy and physiology
Course Aims:
- Explain how nerves cause reactions in the human body.
- Explain how the nervous system affects motor skill performance.
- Explain the function and structure of skeletal muscle in the human body.
- Describe the organisation of muscle tissue in the human body.
- Describe the mechanics of muscular movement.
- Explain development of muscular strength and muscular endurance.
- Selecting muscular flexibility exercises.
- Explain significance of muscles to posture and general well being.
There are 8 Lessons to this course:
- How Nerves Work
- Structure of the nervous system
- Neuron function
- Anatomy of neurons
- How muscles work with nerves
- Basic body functions
- Nerves and Motor Skills
- Overview
- Synapses
- Neurotransmitters
- Neural circuits
- Science of motor skills
- How motor skills develop
- Physiology of the central nervous system
- Homeostatic reflex arc
- Spinal chord and spinal nerves
- Central Sensio motor programs
- Skeletal Muscle
- The skeleton
- How bones form
- Anatomy of bone
- Fractures and fracture healing
- Types of bones
- Bone joints
- Skeletal muscles
- Smooth muscle
- Striated voluntary muscle
- Cardiac muscle
- Relationship between muscle and skeleton
- Muscle Organisation
- Parts of the muscular system: tendons, deep fascia, epimysium etc
- Types of muscle fibre
- Muscle types: striated, smooth, cardiac
- Skeletal muscle types: slow oxidative, fast glycolic, etc
- What muscle cause what movement
- Muscular Movement
- How do muscles move
- How skeletal muscles produce movement
- How levers are used to produce muscular movement
- Group actions
- Terminology
- Muscle groups and movements
- Muscular Development
- Muscular body function
- Energy systems
- Muscular strength
- Muscular endurance
- Muscle Flexibility
- Introduction
- Flexibility
- Excitation contraction of muscle
- Different levels of flexibility
- Internal flexibility
- External flexibility
- Muscles and Posture
- Posture
- Gravity support
- Net movement
- Benefits of posture
- Good posture
- Postural mechanisms
- Slow and fast twitch muscles
- Nervous system feedback
- Posture improvement
- Ergonomics