KNPE 153 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Acceleration, Structural Integrity And Failure, Hypotenuse
2 Dec 2016
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Biomechanics is the study of forces and their effects on living systems. The ultimate goal of sport and exercise biomechanics is performance improvement in exercise of sport. Coaches and teachers use biomechanics to determine what actions may improve performance. Some believe that injury prevention and rehabilitation should be the primary goal of sport and exercise biomechanics. An analysis of the technique deficiencies of an athlete can assist the coach or teacher in identifying the type of training the athlete requires to improve i. e. helping a gymnast to successfully complete a stunt. Jump higher to give herself more time in the air to complete the stunt. Tuck tighter to cause the gymnast to rotate faster due to the conservation of angular momentum. Swing arms more vigorously before takeoff to generate more angular momentum (to rotate faster) The history of sport biomechanics is partly the history of kinesiology (the study of human movement)
