Pe 2 & NSTP Reviewer
Pe 2 & NSTP Reviewer
BIOMECHANICS - The study of how biological organism’s systems and structures react to external
forces and stimuli
ELEMENTS OF BIOMECHANICS
MOTION - The movement of a body or an object
FORCE - Push or pull that cause accelerate
MOMENTUM - Product of a weight and its velocity
LEVERS - Our arms and legs function as levers; levers have three parts: The resistance arm, the fulcrum,
and the axis.
STATIC - Refers to stability
APPLICATION OF BIOMECHANICS
- The study of movement
- Design innovative medical treatments
- Design of sports equipment
FUNDAMENTALS OF BODY MOVEMENTS
- Games, sports and recreational activities
- Skills that involve various body parts but should NOT be confused with sporting abilities
MOVEMENTS CONCEPTS
1. BODY AWARENESS - Learning a person's body parts and understanding what the parts can do,
and moving the parts.
2. SPATIAL AWARENESS - Knowing how much space the body occupies and utilizing the body in
physical space.
3. DIRECTIONAL AWARENESS - Understanding left and right, up and down, in and out, top and
bottom, and front and back;
4. TEMPORAL AWARENESS - The construction of an internal time structure that identifies
movement-time relationships; and
5. RELATIONSHIP AWARENESS - Understanding with what the body makes movements, or with
whom the body makes movements.
MOVEMENT PRINCIPLES
1. BALANCE - The capacity to sustain the body's line of gravity within the support base with minimal
postural sway.
2. CENTERING - Your human body's core, where all body movements emanate and hold you as you
move together.
3. CENTER OF GRAVITY - The balance point or that point where all the body's weight is distributed
equally across all sides.
4. POSTURE - The body's presumed position either with support during muscle activity or a
coordinated action by a group of muscles working to maintain stability.
5. GESTURE - The use of the body to convey emotions and ideas through movement patterns as an
expressive instrument.
6. RHYTHM - The pattern and emphasis of beats.
7. BREATHING - The use of inhalation and exhalation to give fluidity and harmony to a person's
movement.
1. SPEAKING
2. READING
3. WRITING
4. VIEWING
5. LISTENING
TYPES OF LEARNER
Source: www.communicationtheory.org
1. VISUYAL
2. AUDITORY
3. KINESTHETIC
4. DIGITAL