Factors Affecting the Muscular System

1. Factors Affecting the Muscular System L.o: To develop your knowledge and understanding of how rest, diet and performance enhancing drugs affect the muscular system

2. Starter • Find a partner • Choose a pile of cards • Find a space • Find how many questions your partner can get correct

3. Activity • Can you come up with at least two reasons how rest, diet and performance enhancing drugs can affect the muscular system

4. Rest • Should take place after physical activity Rest period needed Intensity/duration of activity

5. Rest • What happens when we exercise? • Rest allows muscles to recover • Repair slight stretches/tears • Allows muscles to become stronger and increase in size

6. Can we have too much rest? • Rest period is too long = muscle wastage • This is called: Muscle A___________

7. Diet • Main food groups that effect the muscular system… • Protein – needed to build muscle help muscles repair • Which sports would need a high protein diet?

8. Diet • Write a diet for a professional rugby player • Is this different from your diet? • Why?

9. Performance Enhancing Drugs • Anabolic Steroids • Help to build muscle • Can aid muscle recovery times • But…

10. Performance Enhancing Drugs • They have many negative effects • High blood pressure • High cholesterol levels • Increase cardiovascular disease (heart attacks) • Liver damage

11. Activity • In pairs, use your knowledge gained from this lesson to come up with an argument for or against using anabolic steroids to improve your muscular system • Join with a pair who have come up with an opposite argument and try to persuade them you are correct

12. Basketball! • You will be split into two teams • Choose a shooter • Your team will be asked questions • If you get your question right, your shooter moves towards goal • Get it wrong and he goes back to the start • You can only shoot at the last line