Personal Training System: Optimizing Your Physical Skills

Personal Training System

Physical skills training has been practiced for over 3000 years, driven by efforts to improve human capabilities through education, sacred practices (religion), and more. Today’s training follows scientific guidelines, allowing us to plan our own systems for health benefits.

Fundamental Ideas

  1. Physical activities started 3000 years ago.
  2. The driving elements were religion and education.
  3. Current science focuses on the basic concepts of health.

Planning personal training involves

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Effective Strategies for Teaching Motor Skills

Learning Factors for Teachers

A) Practice Strategies

Sometimes, the objective of learning motor skills is so complex that they cannot be learned all at once. They must be learned in parts, matching the pace of student learning. The way you split a skill to be learned is what we call a learning strategy. To determine the strategies to use, consider:

  1. The characteristics of the skill to teach: Differentiate between a simple skill and a comprehensive, complicated skill (analytical strategy).
  2. The capabilities
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Hip Joint Muscles: Flexion, Extension, Abduction, Adduction

Hip Flexion

Muscles: Pectineus, iliopsoas, sartorius, tensor fascia lata.

Pectineus

  • Origin: Pubic branch of the ileum
  • Insertion: Femur
  • Function: Flexion, abduction, and external rotation

Iliopsoas

  • Origin: Psoas – 12th thoracic vertebra to the 5th lumbar vertebra; Iliac fossa – iliacus
  • Insertion: Lesser trochanter
  • Function:
    • With trunk fixed and legs mobile: flexion, adduction, and external rotation
    • With legs and trunk fixed:
      • Pelvic anteversion
      • Trunk flexion

Sartorius

  • Origin: Iliac spine
  • Insertion: Medial aspect
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Maritime SAR Operations and Towing Procedures

Search and Rescue (SAR) Areas

SAR stands for Search and Rescue. To achieve global coverage, each maritime administration has designated specific SAR areas based on its capabilities and agreements with neighboring states. In Spain, there are four SAR areas where the state provides full rescue coverage:

  • Atlantic SAR Area: Extends from the border with France, across the Bay of Biscay, to the border with Portugal.
  • Canary SAR Area: Covers the Canary Islands region.
  • Straits SAR Area: Encompasses the Strait
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Workplace Stressors: Harassment, Burnout, Mental Load

Workplace Stressors: Harassment, Burnout, and Mental Load

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Sexual Harassment also occurs in the workplace. It can happen to both women and men. The problem of harassment has more to do with power relationships than sex, although there may be non-consensual physical contact.

Burnout from Work

Burnout is a consequence of exposure to job stressors. We need to work on the development of intense and lasting exchange links between worker and client, worker and patient, or

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Rickets, Spasmophilia, Food Allergies & Infant Development

Rickets

Etiology

  • Vitamin D Deficiency due to:
  • 1-Reduced Synthesis in Skin
  • 2-Rapid growth
  • 3-Avoidance of sunlight
  • 4-Nutrient Deficiency
  • 5-Reduced Absorption

Pathophysiology

Vit D3 is Formed in Skin and hydroxylation in Liver by:

  • 1-Liver producing Calcidiol
  • 2-Kidney producing Caltriol

—>(+) Ca+ P absorption from intestine to Blood!

—>(+) Reabsorption of phosphate in kidney

Clinical Features

  • Bone and joint pain
  • Muscle weakness
  • Fractures
  • Harrison Groove (diaphragm)
  • Bowed Legs
  • Kyphosis (spine)
  • Rachitic Rosary
  • Frog
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