Obstacles In Sports

My favorite activity is playing soccer. To play soccer, you use your legs to run, your feet to pass or shoot, your chest to trap, your head to head the ball, and finally your arms for blocking a shot in goal or throwing throw-ins. As you can see, soccer takes advantage of your whole body and puts it to use.
Running is a huge factor in soccer, you need to outrun your opponent. While taking a deeper look, we move our fibula, tibia, femur, and patella. To extend our knee we the major muscles in the thigh, the vastus lateralis, rectus femoris, vastus medialis and vastus intermedius. To run we use our biceps femoris which allows us to lift, bend, rotate your knee, and extend your leg away from your body. Apart from the biceps femoris, we use the soleus which basically allows you to push off the ground with your foot. This muscle is in the back of the leg and forms the achilles tendon. The …show more content…
The tarsals, metatarsals and phalanges provide a contact surface for the ball. To throw a ball into play, we use muscles and bones primarily in the arms. A few of the bones that we use are phalanges (In the hand), carpols, metacarpols, radius, ulna, and the humerus. You use your phalanges and metacarpols to grip the ball and your carpol to flick it away from you. while throwing the ball, both flexion and extension occur, which is where you move the ulna, radius, and humerus. The muscles you must use when doing a throw-in include triceps branchii, biceps branchii, and deltoid. These muscles allow you to move your body to move and throw the ball. When a ball is coming at you in the air, a good strategy is to trap it with your chest. You must arch as if you were hugging a tree. To do this you must use your scapula to bend in that certain way. You also need to be prepared for the ball to hit your ribs. While doing this, you will experience your pectoralis arching with your