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Est1 Task 1

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Q1: Principle of specificity states that training must go from highly general training to highly specific training. Therefore, an athlete should use this principle to produce best results in the sport he or she is engaging in. An example; a runner’s body is easily identified by increased blood vessels for increased oxygen supply to the various muscles involved in running. He or she may also pose a larger heartbeat as compared to other athletes such as throwers (Sports training adviser, 2014). Consequently, this helps the runner manage to go rounds without easily tiring.
Q2: Degrees of Freedom state from an anatomical and operation definition, that there are a number of ways a person can perform a movement in order to achieve the same goal. It is an overreaching …show more content…

Example, wrestlers will regularly exercise by weighing lifts to increase muscles. In order to increase the muscle, it must be gradually stressed by a greater force than it used to. Walking is a perfect exercise but the load put on when walking cannot gradually be increased because the same stress is applied throughout the walks a person makes. Therefore, overload principle cannot be applied on walking.
Q4: Pectoral major is a muscle located in the chest region; it originates from the proximal part of the humerus. Its function is to adduct and rotate the arm. A bicep is a muscle that has two heads or point of origin. Biceps femoris is a muscle located at the back of the thigh, and its function is to flex the knee joint.
Q5: In case abdominal muscles are weak, the erector spinae muscles can hyperextend lower back to correct back extension activities. Therefore, the abdominal muscles are weaker than the erector spinae because they tilt the pelvis forward improving the mechanical positioning of the erector spinae. Examples of affected exercises are like squat, military press and dead lifts of which can be corrected by the

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