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Sport - Physiology Workshop 2012

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• EBC sports students take part in a special STEM activity to measure physiology and see how it affects sporting performance
• After assessing overall fitness using the bleep test, students had to measure their lung capacity
• Mr Lane explains how to blow into a special bag to measure the volume of air in the lungs
• This gives a measurement of lung capacity or the volume of air that can be held inside the lungs
• In many sports an increased lung capacity can give an advantage over competitors
• Another test was to measure each individual's flexiblity
• The students had to measure how far they could reach from a sitting position
• Flexibility is more important in some sports than others, so the students found their results varied in this test.
• Up in the gym, another group of students made mesaurements on muscle size before and after exercise
• Students timed each other in activities including step ups...
• ...the dreaded push ups
• and bench jumps
• Mr Newman helps with the weight lifting exercise
• Students found that their muscle size increased after taking part in the exercises and compared results with each other
• Overall it was a good opportunity for some of the college's top sportsmen to work together across the different disciplines
• And look at some of the science behind sporting performance.

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