Chapter One Flashcards
What is the goal of a strength coach?
Maximize physical performance through programs that are designed to increase muscular strength, endurance and flexibility
Proximal
closer to the trunk
Distal
farther from the trunk
Superior
closer to the head
Inferior
closer to the feet
Origin
proximal attachment
Insertion
Distal attachment
Epimysium
Outer layer of muscle fibers
Fasciuli
perimysium: surrounds each fasciculus
Endomysium
surrounds each fasciculus
Neuromuscular Junction
junction between motor neuron and the muscle fibers it innervates
Each cell only has ___ neuromuscular junctions
one
motor neuron and muscle fibers it innervates are called a ____
motor unit
Sarcoplasm
cytoplasm of muscle fibers
sarcoplasm contains
contractile components
three components of a sarcoplasm
myosin, actin, sarcomere
myosin
thick filaments
the A band contains
myosin
actin
thin filaments
the I band contains
actin
what is the smallest contractile unit of skeletal muscle
sarcomere
what is the center of a sarcomere
h-zone
what is the only thing present in the h-zone
myosin
h-zone ___ during contraction
decreases
Ca controls ____ ______
Muscular contraction
Ca is regulated in the ___
SR
sliding filament theory
actin filaments at each end of the sarcomere slide inward on myosin filaments pulling the z-lines toward the center of the sarcomere and thus shortening the fiber
phases of the sliding filament theory
resting, excitation, contraction