Seminar 4.2

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Seminar 4.2

• Adore Your Core

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Do Now

• Answer the following questions in your notes
• Have you ever been to the circus or the ballet
  or a cheerleading competition?
• How are the acrobats, ballerinas and
  cheerleaders able to perform their moves?
• What makes them so strong?
• What do you notice about their posture?

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Try this

• Sit up straight in your chair, dont let you back
  touch the chair or you stomach touch the desk.
• Relax your stomach muscles and then relax your
  back muscles.
• You should slump over.
• When on part of your body is weak, everything
  else is weakened too.

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Core Muscles

• Your core muscles are the muscles around your
  trunk.
• stomach, back, chest, shoulders, upper legs
• Core muscles
• Protect and brace your back
• Control your movement
• Give you a more stable center of gravity
• Provide a more stable platform for sports
  movements
• Try shooting a lacrosse ball with out using your
  core!

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More on your core

• Just like a house has a foundation, your core
  muscles are like a foundation for all your other
  muscles.
• What would happen if you built a house from the
  top down?
• When you focus your exercise on just a few
  muscles, like your biceps, its like building a
  house without a foundation.

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One thing your core is for

• Building up good core muscles prevents your body
  from storing too much omentum fat, which puts
  strain on all your bodies organs.

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How muscles work

• Muscles are like expandable ladders.
• Your muscles contract (get thicker and shorter)
  like a ladder would when the muscles are used.
• You can build up various parts of the ladder.
• Strength training works on the ladder poles
  themselves.
• Stamina training focuses on the amount of force
  it takes to move the poles.

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Major Muscle Groups

• There are more muscles in your body than I have
  time to teach you today.
• Lets look at the major groups of muscles that we
  need to know.
• http//www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/library/ac
  tivity/trainbasics.htm

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Activity

• Take the next few minutes to write down a list of
  at least 10 strength building exercises or
  activities and what muscles they work.

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Activity (contd)

• Now were going to go over these activities and
  place them on a diagram.

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Here are some more ideas

• http//bodybuilding.com/fun/anatomy.htm
• http//www.mayoclinic.com/health/core-strength/SM0
  0047

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Ticket Out

• Write the following on your ticket out
• Write down three of the major muscle groups and
  an exercise/activity that would strengthen them.