Physics Girl: Testing What Exercise Actually Does to Your Butt

Teacher or professor: Physics Girl
Subject: Physics
Content of the Lesson: Check out Cassey's Video! https://youtu.be/AW6TZVwP-FA New Merch Launched! https://store.dftba.com/collections/physics-girl Cassey and I investigate the biomechanics of butts. What activates your butt muscles more, running or squatting? How effective are bridges as a butt workout? How much can we change the shape of our bodies with exercise? http://physicsgirl.org/ http://twitter.com/thephysicsgirl http://facebook.com/thephysicsgirl http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Creator/Host: Dianna Cowern Editor: Levi Butner Research & Writing: Dianna & Imogen Ashford Huge thanks to Dr. Rowley for having us invade his lab for the day! You can check him out on facebook here http://www.facebook.com/kmichaelrowley Dr. Rowley's thesis on figure skaters: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25775364 Sources: Sports and Gluteus Maximus Size: 'The cross-sectional area of the gluteus maximus muscle varies according to habitual exercise loading: Implications for activity-related and evolutionary studies' https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018442X15000761 Meta-analysis 1 'Twin study of genetic and environmental influences on adult body size, shape, and composition' https://genepi.qimr.edu.au/contents/publications/staff/CVPV080.pdf Meta-analysis 2 'The Beneficial Effects of Physical Activity: Is It Down to Your Genes? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Twin and Family Studies' https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-016-0073-9 Meta-analysis 3 'Variability in the heritability of body mass index: a systematic review and meta-regression' https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2012.00029/full


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