Teacher Section

Students will learn muscular strength training information in many different areas ranging from learning about specific muscles and their functions, how to work each muscle through specific exercises, different types of training techniques, and cognitive knowledge on different ways of exercising. The main web site connections will be used from Yahoo and Lycos. The specific web sites used will be in the student section, so students can link with each specific site as it is needed per lesson.

This unit is in accordance with Illinois learning Standard 20.A.5 for high school students.

Specific topics the students will study are as follows:

Muscles being learned and exercises that will work each muscle

• Deltoids - shoulder press, lateral raise, upright row
• Trapizius - shrugs, upright row
• Latisimus Dorsi - lat pulldowns, seated rows
• Rhomboids - seated rows, dumbell row
• Triceps - tricep extensions, donkey kick, bench press
• Biceps - bicep curls (dumbell & straight bar), lat pulldowns
• Quadriceps - squats, leg extensions
• Hamstrings - squats, leg curl, leg press
• Gastrominius - calf raises, squats
• Tibialis - calf raises, squats

• isometric training
• isotonic training
• isokinetic training
• pyramid lifting
• super setting
• straight set training
• FIT principle
• eccentric contractions
• concentric contractions
• overload
• specificity
• hypertrophy

atrophy