|
By:
Joan Brewer, PhD
Richard Rosenkranz, PhD, MA, MS, USAT Level III Coach
Mari Lisbeth Dobbins, BS
Valerie Ellsworth Gattis, BA, USAT Level II Coach
Alive with MissionMe!® Major Muscle Exercise Posters are a valuable resource for physical education teachers, coaches, trainers and allied health professionals working with students or clients of any age or ability. This product meets a key Alive with MissionMe!® Series goal of joining the cognitive with the physical. These posters help students identify understand and appreciate their major muscle structure and encourage them to use and strengthen their major muscle core system throughout their lives.
For example, in conjunction with highly targeted exercises, students learn how major muscles:
- Support the human skeleton;
- Enable upper and lower body and core activity and fluidity of movement;
- Provide for core/balance;
- Interact;
- Can and must be strengthened in non-injurious ways over a lifetime.
Each exercise shows the muscles and their location in the body along with the activities/exercises and equipment needed to develop awareness of the muscle and its primary movement The instructor can use equipment commonly found in the gym such as stretch bands, fitness balls and medicine balls.
Alive with MissionMe!® is an Approved Educational Provider for Illinois State Board of Education and USA Triathlon, the national governing body for the Olympic Sport of Triathlon.
|
