Objective: gain a basic understanding of the role anatomy plays in Yoga Sculpt
Neutral Anatomical Position: stand up straight, extend your arms at your sides, face your palms forward
Kinesiology:
Planes:
Bones:
The Spine:
Joints:
Ligaments: connect bone to bone
Tendons: connect muscle to bone
Anatomy of Lower Body:
Anatomy of the Abdominals:
Anatomy of Upper Body:
Muscle Contractions:
Aerobic Exercise: with oxygen
Anaerobic Exercise: without oxygen
Overall: This was a lot of information in a short period of time, but I am really glad that we had this lecture. I have had plenty of anatomy lectures throughout my education at CU as a dance major, but this was interesting to apply it to yoga and weightlifting rather than dancing. I am glad that we have this information for the future to help our students with injury prevention and adjustments.
- Neutral Anatomical Position, Anatomical Terms
- Body Movement and Plane of Motion
- Bones, Spine, Joints, Fascia, Ligaments and Tendons, Muscles
- Anatomy of the Lower and Upper Body
- Muscle Contractions, Metabolism and Aerobic and Anaerobic
Neutral Anatomical Position: stand up straight, extend your arms at your sides, face your palms forward
- Establish a firm base in your feet
- Stack your joints for maximum support
- Create core stability
- Relax your shoulders back and down
- Align your spine
Kinesiology:
- Flexion: coming up - closing the joint
- Extension: reach out - creating more space at joint
- Abduction: moves the extremities away from the midline of body
- Adduction: moves the extremities towards the midline of the body
- Rotation: rotary movement around an axis of a bone
- Circumduction: circular movement, combine flexion, extension, adduction, and abduction
- Hyperextension: extend the joint beyond the neutral anatomical position
- Inversion: move the sole of the foot toward the medial plane
- Eversion: move the sole of the foot away from the medial plane
- Elevate: lift up towards the head
- Depress: move downward towards the feet
- Protract: move toward the front midline of the body
- Retract: move towards the back midline of the body
- Supination: external rotation resulting in appendage facing upward
- Pronation: internal rotation resulting in appendage facing downward
- Dorsiflexion: flex
- Plantarflexion: point
Planes:
- Sagittal plane: vertical plane that divides the body into left and right
- Frontal plane: vertical plane that divides the body into front and back
- Transverse plane: divides the body into top and bottom halves
Bones:
- Axial skeleton: skull, sternum, ribs, spine
- Appendicular skeleton: shoulder girdle, pelvic girdle, upper and lower extremities
The Spine:
- Composed of 33 vertebrae: 7 cervical/12 thoracic/5 lumbar
- 4 natural curves of the spine
Joints:
- Hinge
- Ball and socket
- Interverbal/compressive joint
Ligaments: connect bone to bone
Tendons: connect muscle to bone
Anatomy of Lower Body:
- Lower Leg
- Quadriceps
- Hamstrings
- Glutes
- Adductor group
Anatomy of the Abdominals:
- Rectus abdominus: six pack
- Oblique muscles: 4-2 external/2 internal
- Transverse abdominus muscles: deepest of your ab muscles
- Psoas: connects front body to back body and lower body to upper body
Anatomy of Upper Body:
- Erector spinae
- Latissimus dorsi
- Trapezius
- Rhomboids
- Serratus anterior
- Deltoids
- Rotator cuff
- Chest
- Biceps
- Triceps
Muscle Contractions:
- Concentric: muscle engagement during active muscle shortening
- Eccentric: muscle engagement during active muscle lengthening
- Isometric: muscle engagement under constant muscle length without movement
Aerobic Exercise: with oxygen
Anaerobic Exercise: without oxygen
Overall: This was a lot of information in a short period of time, but I am really glad that we had this lecture. I have had plenty of anatomy lectures throughout my education at CU as a dance major, but this was interesting to apply it to yoga and weightlifting rather than dancing. I am glad that we have this information for the future to help our students with injury prevention and adjustments.