Sit&Reach Test

for every muscle there is an opposite muscle, they retract and expand in order to let us to exercise, there are hinge joints ( for example an elbow) ball and socket joints (shoulder) .. joints in the body are similar to other ones; for example the shoulder and hip are the same, elbow and knee are the same, wrist and ankle are the same. Muscles in our bodies are in pairs... our arm pairs are our bisceps & triceps, leg muscles are quadriceps and hamstrings, stomach is our abdominal and back.

Today we did the sit&reach test and that worked on the hip joint. We did this test to by doing the sit and reach test and then having a go on the trampoline; after this we did the test again. We did this to see the difference between our flexibility before and after exercise. When you exercise your muscles tire because the friction from the tiny fibres rubbing against each other causes aches, protein helps repair muscle tears after exercise. if the muscles stretches too much there will be a tear so that's why we warm up before doing exercise. muscles are connected to bones by via tendons. 

The good source of fibre comes from white meat... 

red meat = animals that hardly move such as cows and sheep
white = animals that move around more such as chickens 

Another good source of this could be found in protein shakes

The effects of people using steroids is that whereas someone that isn't on steroids would generally have ea limit to the amount of exercise they do because they get tired and their body starts aching, someone that's on steroids would be able to go on for longer without stopping due to the tears in the muscles and the steroids. 

After we did the sit and reach test we only measures our flexibility because its impossible to measure the tears in our muscles muscles.

We realised that we didn't want our ligaments to be flexible and we only want them to be heated a bit so they can give way a bit more and increase our flexibilty, this was the same for our tendons; we warm our tendons and ligaments up by doing a warm up.
A carlidge is a soft spongey tissue that acts as a shock absorber so there is no bone-on-bone collisions and no damage; this is on the end of our bones
Our synovial fluid  acts like an oil that allows joints to move easier and be more flexible. 

Ultimately exercise should make an increase if everything to do with our body such and muscles warming up, flexibility and stamina

As flexibly increases more tears will occur in the muscles

If a muscle isn't used for a long time the muscles will waste away and the person could end up clinically obese or even in a wheel chair because they dont have enough strength to hold their own body weight.

Before we did the trampoline session my sit and reach result was 30cm however after we did the session is was 34cm.