Bones of the Skeleton: Part 1 Continued...

Hello! Just a quick one today...

As you can see from the title, I'm going to start from where I left off!

So today/tonight I'm going to finish off explaining the rest of the axial skeleton...

There's only one area left... I've talked about the skull, the spine and now... the chest!

So what bones do we have in this area?

Well we have 12 pairs of ribs and a sternum!

Starting with the ribs... they actually originate from the thoracic vertebrae (remember we talked about that last time?!.. Chris Tarrant... The Tarrant standing for thoracic vertebrae!). Anyway, these pairs of ribs extend around to form the chest wall! The 1st 3 pairs attach to the sternum (we'll be talking about that in a moment!). Now... the next 3 pairs of ribs have common cartilaginous attachment which is to the sternum. Finally, the last 2 pairs are free! (A lot to take in hence the spreading of blogs!)

So what are we left with... the sternum! This bone receives the upper 10 pairs of ribs (not the last 2 as they are free!) as well as receiving the clavicle. (We'll be covering the clavicle next time!)

Ok, so hope you found this useful!

See you all soon x

A brief insight to my New Diet

Hello!

So, I stated in my previous blog that I'd talk more about the skeleton and the bones in the body... well I'm going to do that tomorrow now (busy day) but I'll leave you with a picture of my dinner tonight!

I started a new diet last week. I lost around a stone in weight over Christmas and I'm looking to put that on whilst doing some not too strenuous exercise. So far it's going well... I'll be sharing my diet when I've got my website sorted which will probably be here towards the end of the year as I'm not really up to it at the moment, plus I want to see some good results to show the rest of you too to prove the diets and workouts I follow do work!

Before Christmas, I weighed around 15 stone, I've now gone down to around 14 stone (morning weight). It's ALWAYS best to weigh yourself in the morning as your body isn't carrying any food or water weight! That's the most accurate time of day to weigh yourself, unless of course you work nights!

I'm 6ft 3 too so for someone of my height and weight, the recommended amount of calories to have on a bulk is around 3300... I've cut this down to 3000 as I'm not as active as a regular person due to my M.E.

Anyway... here's the picture...

There we go... not the best presentation but it's all about getting the calories in! What's the point in a good presentation if you're going to eat it anyway??!! ;)

It tastes good!

Chicken fillets, cherry tomatoes, brown rice, spinach, feta cheese and baked potatoes. :)



Hope you're all having a great week so far!

Barry. :)

Bones of the Skeleton: Part 1

So how many bones are there in the human body? Well the answer is 206!

When I was learning about the human body, the skeleton would be split in two (not literally)... the axial skeleton, and the appendicular skeleton! What are they? Not as complicated as it sounds... the axial skeleton consists of the spine, ribs and skull whilst the appendicular skeleton covers everywhere else, the upper and lower limbs, as well as the pelvic and shoulder girdles.

Now I'm going to cover the 8 general areas of the body along with the names and amounts of bones.

Remember the axial skeleton? Well I'm going to start with that... The skull! I would hope that the majority of you would know that the skull is the head! This is called the Cranial bone and there's actually 8 in the human body!

What about the spine? As you'd imagine, there are a lot more bones located here... 33 to be precise! These 33 are split up into 5 different sections along the spine. Starting from the neck region, this bone is called the Cervical vertebrae and there are 7 until we reach the next part... the chest area! This bone is called the Thoracic vertebrae where there are 12 bones! We then go down into the lower back and reach a bone called the Lumbar vertebrae, there are 5 of these. (Nearly there!) The next part we enter is... the rump! This is called the Sacral vertebrae and again consists are 5 bones. Lastly... and least consisting of just 4 bones is the Coccygeal vertebrae... this is where our tails used to be once upon a time... seriously!

How can I remember all that?! It's not easy when the information is new to you but there are simple methods that will help you a lot... Take the 1st initials of the bone names that I mentioned, that gives you CTLSC. Then you have to think of a sentence with each word starting with these initials. As usual, I forgot the ones I was taught but here's a very simple example... Chris Tarrant Likes Salted Crisps... pretty lame I know and the sentence I was taught had a different last 2 words... and they are NOT what you are thinking!!!

I was actually going to go through all the bones in this blog but it seems my waffle has taken over a bit and there's more than enough information for 1 blog here! I've now decided that I am going to split the Bones of the skeleton into 2 or 3 parts!

I hope that everyone reading this has found it interesting and I shall be back soon with Part 2!

Barry. :)

The functions of the Skeletal System

Hello everyone! Hope you have all had a great start to the New Year so far! :)

The Skeletal System... What better way to start off the New Year?!...

If you're interested in learning about the body then you'll find this interesting and of course it's important for Personal Trainers to know these sorts of things!

Will knowing this information affect the way you approach your workout and diet? Probably not but why is it useful to know all of this?

Well for a start the skeleton protects all of the internal organs e.g. the lungs, the heart, the brain etc etc.

It gives our body shape, if we had no bones then we'd all just be blobs, like a blob fish which isn't the prettiest of sights!

It also provides surfaces for the attachment of soft tissues such as ligaments and muscles, these muscles can pull on the bones which products joint movement meaning the skeleton will act as bio mechanical levers to allow this.

What else? Well there's 2 main functions that haven't been mentioned yet, production and storage!

So what does the skeleton produce that we haven't covered already? Well there's a few things that certain bones produce which are namely produce granular white blood cells, red blood cells, and lastly platelets from their red bone marrow.

I'm going to finish today's blog with the storage of the skeleton before moving onto the names of the bones tomorrow. (I've written a bit more than I 1st decided to!)

The skeleton stores several minerals which when required are released. These minerals include calcium and phosphorus. Lastly, triglycerides are stored in the adipocytes of yellow bone marrow. And for those who don't know, triglycerides are the main constituent of animal fats and vegetable oil. The technical term used is an "ester composed of glycerol bound to three fatty acids".

As you can see, lots of technical terms there! I won't go into them all as I could simply go on for days... and like most people find it very confusing!

Hope you found this as useful as I did and look at for the next blog in a few days.

Barry. :)