The Appendicular Skeleton: Part 1

Hello, I'm back!

Today we'll be covering part of "The Appendicular Skeleton"

If you've been following my blog then you'll know that the areas going to be covered are the: shoulders, arms, hands, pelvis, legs and feet.

We have 17 different sorts of bones in these areas and 130 in total! A lot of bones...

Lets start with the shoulders! We have 2 different types of bones here called the Scapulae and the Clavicle or in other words the shoulder blade and the collar bone. There are 2 of each of these in the human skeleton...

The Scapulae is located at back whilst the Clavicle is located at the front. The Clavicle actually helps to maintain the correct position of the Scapulae keeping it a distance from the chest wall. Whilst the Scapulae is situated at the back, it is held on by muscular attachments to the ribcage.

That's the shoulders out of the way! We will now move onto the arms...

So here in our arms, there are 3 different bones! The Humerus, Radius and the Ulna! Again, there are 2 of each of these in the human skeleton...

The Humerus is located in the upper arm whilst the Radius is located in the forearm.

So that's it for today! I'll probably continue with the rest of "The Appendicular Skeleton" over the next couple of days. :)

Hope you're all well 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. :)