The anatomy base for 8386, taken further than IGCSE - including movement analysis of whole actions.
Joints and Movements
Cambridge gives you seven joints and expects you to know their type, their articulating bones, every movement available at each one and the main agonist that produces eac...
7 questions · 19 marks
Revise this topicFunctions of Muscles
A movement is never produced by one muscle. Cambridge wants you to explain three roles — agonist, antagonist and fixator — and to name them in a real action. Most student...
6 questions · 17 marks
Revise this topicTypes of Muscle Contraction
Cambridge splits contractions into isotonic (concentric and eccentric) and isometric. The marks are not in learning the three names, they are in saying what happens to mu...
7 questions · 21 marks
Revise this topicMuscle Fibre Types
Cambridge names three fibre types — slow oxidative, fast oxidative glycolytic and fast glycolytic — and wants you to describe their structure and function, then explain w...
7 questions · 20 marks
Revise this topicMovement Analysis of Actions
Movement analysis is where the joints, muscles and contractions topics are added together and applied to a real action. You take one phase of a sporting movement and work...
8 questions · 24 marks
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