WEEK 1

Question Activity 1

Instructions
Please respond to the questions or situations below. For each question, please be sure to address all of the points emphasized in the question as thoroughly as possible. Your answer to each question should be no more than one typed, double-spaced page.

Submit the assignment given below to your mentor by Sunday of Week 1.

  1. Why is it important to study kinesiology? In your response please talk about how knowledge of kinesiology can be useful in real life situations. Include the concept of “safety-effectiveness-efficiency” in your answer.

  2. According to our text there are three phases of a motion analysis. In a table, list the three phases and what should be done in each phase by the evaluator.

  3. What is the simultaneous-sequential nature of movement? State why we need to know about this principle.

  4. Choose one activity from Appendix G in the text, and list one set of simultaneous parts of the movements and one set of sequential parts of the movement.