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When standing in anatomic position, the hands are furthest from the body in someone with:

The Borg scale measures:

According to the principle of specificity of training or specific adaptation to imposed demand, an individual who is working to regain the ability to walk following a lower extremity injury should train by:

Please match the exercise to the aspect of muscle function it develops. You will use each answer only once.

When you go from the bottom (hanging with straight arms) to the top (arms bent so your chin is above the bar) of a chin up, your shoulder [shoulder] and your elbow [elbow]

Which muscle produces internal/medial rotation of the arm at the glenohumeral joint?

Sam is going to the gym; he would like to improve his upper body muscle strength, and feels most comfortable using weight machines to perform isolation exercises.  He starts by working his triceps brachii muscle. What movement will he be doing during the concentric phase of the exercise? [1] What movement will he be doing during the eccentric phase of the exercise? [2] Next, Sam wants to work his biceps brachii, brachialis, and brachioradialis muscles. What movement will he be doing during the concentric phase of the exercise? [3] What movement will he be doing during the eccentric phase of the exercise? [4] Sam finds a machine that allows him to perform both resisted (concentric) abduction of the arm at the shoulder and, separately, resisted (concentric) adduction of the arm at the shoulder. Which muscles will this machine target? Abduction: [5] Adduction: [6]  

To stretch a muscle, you need to:

According to the principle of specificity of training or specific adaptation to imposed demand, an individual who is working to regain the ability to walk following a lower extremity injury should train by:

During lateral (external) rotation of the arm at the glenohumeral joint, what are the movements of the scapula at the scapulocostal joint?