Tuesday, August 19, 2008

What Muscles Do We Use to Swim?

Here is a fun and interesting video I found on YouTube. It is a computer model of a person swimming each of the four strokes. The muscles light up purple whenever they are activated or used. This was developed by a Dr. Nakashima at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I am not sure how this was created or what methods were used to determine when certain muscles are activated, but it is interesting to look at nonetheless. One thing to notice - look at how often the abs light up in each stroke - see, dryland really is important!

5 comments:

  1. ryan..as usual, what great insight. i love reading the blog. i hope your team reads it as well. "penny on the groud"...what a great metaphor.

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  2. This is very useful for the project theat im doing.

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  3. This is very useful for my project that i am doing.

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  4. Thx, i used this for a report

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