Fitness is built upon your own anatomy.
Do you know the right answer?.
Question number 41 in our School of Fitness.
Beneath the tasty, delicious joy and sexiness of a life built on plant-based food and fitness, the weights you lift, the miles you walk and run. The mountains you climb, and the sandbags you punch and kick there is not just a burning passion and increased life quality. Nor is it just a question of the enhanced health and joy you can touch and feel deep inside both body & mind.
No, there is also this marvelously progressive thing called science. Because all the physical fitness things, the sweat and healthy living discipline that others see are ultimately powered by the all-encompassing facts of biological life.
Be it the wear and tear of doing the wrong thing too hard and to often, or the far more common curse of not doing the healthy fit choices frequently enough and challenging enough. The protein you eat, the amount you train and sleep, the things you drink and the incredible biological power plants we all have churning 24/7 inside our own bloodstream and cells, or the way our grey matter respond to physical fitness and healthy food. We have something far more basic that gives us the actual playground, and that is the basic anatomy of the way our skeletal muscles attach to our bones.
And like a puppeteer, this system is what allows us to move and lift weights, run and climb and jump not just in one direction but in every possibly conceived direction there is.
Creating amazing capabilities and hard restraint all at the same time.
And this is what the science of health and fitness do detail and try its best to explain. And if we pay attention to how things actually work, we´ll end up much healthier and way fitter for the entire duration of our biological lifespan.
My Question:.
Today it is easy as a pie.
A unilateral contraction of the Scalenus Anterior, medius and posterior muscles creates a lateral flexion of the?????
1.neck
2.hips
3.scapula
2050AD.
The developed world
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Make up your mind, and once you have made your pick click the "And the Correct Answer is" label down below to reveal the right one.
1.
We tilt our neck to the side when we do a unilateral contraction of our 3 Scalenus muscles.
2.
When you do the 1 sided contraction of your Scalenus muscles you bend in the hip to either the left or right side of your body.
3.
A unilateral contraction of our Scalenus muscles lifts either the right or left scapula relative to the other.
Our three scalene muscles can be found in our neck, close to the sternocleidomastoid muscle, and lateral to our cervical spine. They are responsible for connecting our vertebrae to the bodies first two ribs. But some people ( more than 30% of the human species actually ) have one more Scalene muscle, the aptly named minimum scalene.
The scalene muscles are involved in lifting our first two ribs as part of their function as secondary respiratory muscles.
They are also active when we have our arms raised as well as being postural muscles and directly involved in the movements of the neck. This includes the incline of the neck and the rotation of the head. And as we started, a bilateral/unilateral contraction of the scalene allows for the neck to flexion.
Origin
Scalenus Anterior: c3-c6
Medius: c2-c7
Posterior: c5-c7
Insertion
Scalenus Anterior: Costae 1 (rib 1)
Medius: Costae 1
Posterior: Costae 2
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