SEVEN ACTIVITIES

When you do some activities you are moving some muscles and bones in your body. Here are some examples of the muscles and bones that you are moving in this activities:

BASKETBALL

Basketball is a sport that requires a lot of body work. Arms and legs are the central base. The most important are:

Muscles:

Quadriceps, twins, calf muscle, triceps and abdominals.

The muscles of the arms are all used too but their development is not as important as the use of the legs

Bones:

Femur, vertebral column, elbow, wrist, fingers, neck, back, spine, hips, ankle, heel, knee, shoulder, etc.. 

AMERICAN FOOTBALL

Muscles:

Football is a sport that requires strength and power in nearly every muscle throughout the body. To play football you have to use some muscles:

Shoulder muscles, arm muscles (biceps and triceps) and forearm, upper-body muscles (pectorals major, latissimus dorsi and the subscapularis), lower body and core muscles (abdominals and obliques, calves, quadriceps, hamstrings and glutes).

Bones:

The main bone used to play American football is the ulna. But there are other bones, like the humerus, radius, shoulder, elbow and wrist, phalanges, metatarsals and patella.

BASEBALL

Muscles:

Baseball players use different muscles than other athletes.

Core: abdomen muscles, trunk and hips

Legs: quadriceps, calves, tibialis anterior, hamstrings

Forearms: biceps and wrists

Shoulderes: deltoid.

Bones:

Arm bones: elbow, radius, wrist, humerus, clavicle and shoulder

Leg bones: femur, patella, tibia, fibula, pelvis and phalanges.

 

TENNIS

Muscles:

Tennis requires you to use almost all the body’s muscles.

The main muscles used are:

Biceps (needed for a forehand), triceps (need for the backhand), quads (needed to run and dig out balls), hamstrings (needed to run and bend for gets), calves (needed to step and jump and serve), abdominals needed to twist, deltoids (needed to serve and overhead smash).

Bones:

Fingers (needed to grip and hold racquet), wrists (needed to move racquet), shoulders (needed to pivot and use for serve motion), hips (needed to align your body for shotmaking), feet (needed to move run, balance), toes (needed to move for footworn), ankles (needed for sudden starting and stoping) and knees (needed to bend lower for lower shots).

RUNNING

Muscles:

During running, the muscles of the lower body help to move the body through four stages -- heel strike, single limb support, push-off and leg swing.

The main muscles used are:

Legs : quadriceps, triceps, adductors and gluteus.

Arms: biceps.

Bones:

Leg bones: femur, patella, tibia, fibula, pelvis and phalanges.

Arm bones: radius, humerus, ulna and phalanges.

SWIMMING

Muscles:

Swimming puts a lot of stress on the muscles. The muscles used in swimming are:

The muscles in the upper limb, includes: thenars, brachioradialis, biceps, triceps and deltoids.

The neck muscles: sternocleidomastoid.

The front trunk muscle: pectorals, serratus anterior and abdominals.

Bones:

The main bones that are used when swimming are the bones of the shoulder girdle and arm.

The bones used are the clavicle, humerus, radius and the ulna.

The bones of the legs are used to: femur, tibia and fibula.

VOLLEYBALL

Playing volleyball requires fast, powerful motions from all the major joints of your body– the ankles, elbows, hips, knees, shoulders and wrists– assisted in by the surrounding muscle groups.

Muscles:

Deltoid, sternocleidomastoid, biceps, triceps, abdominals, serratus, obliques, quadriceps and calf muscle.

Bones:

Femur, tibia, fibula, patella, radius, ulna, humerus, clavicle and phalangs.