BTEC Sport LEVEL 3 Exam with complete solutions

What are the 3 muscle types? - Answer- skeletal, smooth, cardiac Characteristics of skeletal muscle - Answer- voluntary, striated, can fatigue Characteristics of smooth muscle - Answer- Involuntary, controlled by nervous system, no stripes Characteristics of cardiac muscle - Answer- found only in the heart, striated, involuntary, own blood supple Example of where you can find skeletal muscle - Answer- Deltoid Example of where you can find smooth muscle - Answer- Stomach (digestive system) What is the origin? - Answer- End of muscle attached to immovable bone What is insertion? - Answer- End of muscle attached to movable bone What is action? - Answer- Movement that is made when muscle contracts What is the location of the triceps? - Answer- Outside upper arm What is the location of the Deltoids? - Answer- Shoulder What is the location of the pectorals? - Answer- Chest What is the location of the biceps? - Answer- Top upper arm What is the location of the wrist flexors? - Answer- Inside wrist What is the location of the wrist extensors? - Answer- Outside wrist What is the location of the supinators? - Answer- Inner elbow What is the location of the pronators? - Answer- Inner elbow What is the location of the abdominals? - Answer- Stomach What is the location of the hip flexors? - Answer- Lumbar region of thigh What is the location of the quadriceps? - Answer- Front thigh What is the location of the hamstrings? - Answer- Back thigh What is the location of the gastrocnemius? - Answer- Calf What is the location of the soleus? - Answer- Back of calf What is the location of the tibialis anterior? - Answer- Outside shin What is the location of the erector spinae? - Answer- Centre of back What is the location of the teres major? - Answer- Between scapula and humerus What is the location of the latissimus dorsi? - Answer- Centre at side back What is the location of the obliques? - Answer- Side of torso What is the location of the gluteals? - Answer- Bum What is the function of the triceps? - Answer- Extension of forearm at elbow joint What is the function of the deltoids? - Answer- Stability of shoulder joint and upper arm What is the function of the pectorals? - Answer- flexion, adduction, and internal rotation of the humerus What is the function of the biceps? - Answer- Flexion of elbow and supination of forearm What is the function of the wrist flexors? - Answer- Flexion and abduction of wrist What is the function of the wrist extensors? - Answer- Extends hand at wrist What is the function of the supinators? - Answer- Rotates radius laterally at proximal radioulna joint What is the function of the pronators? - Answer- Exclusive upper limb movement What is the function of the abdominals? - Answer- Allow movement and hold organs in place