Unit 7 Reflection

In this unit, we learned about all of the muscles in our body. We first learned different terms and joint movements. These were interesting and a little easy for me to remember because i learned all of these terms last year when i took Sports Medicine. Next we learned about the muscular system. We learned that there are many properties of muscle tissues. An example of one is excitability which was the ability to receive and respond to stimuli. We also learned about the different classification of muscles and how to distinguish which muscles are which. Something that i struggled a lot with was labeling the muscles on the body. There were so many of them that sounded alike so it was a little bit confusing. One of the last things we did in this unit was learn about different performance enhancements. This was my favorite thing that we learned in this unit because it was cool to see the effects that different enhancements had on your body. For example, I learned that caffeine has many risks to it which is bad for me because i drink it almost everyday. Caffeine can cause cramping, dehydration, and can suppress your appetite. Now that I know this, I will try to drink it less often. Some labs and activities we did in this unit was the chicken muscle dissection and the performance enhancement advertisement. The chicken dissection was really fun but a little confusing because it was hard to identify all the muscles. The advertisement was fun because i enjoyed the lecture and it was cool to learn about what anabolic steroids can do to you. I learned from this activity that for males, it can cause reduced sperm count and it can stop their growth. For females, this can cause male like facial hair and also stop.