kinesiology
the science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.
Origin of kinesiology
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- ki·ne·si·ol·o·gist, noun
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How to use kinesiology in a sentence
It wasn’t until she’d earned a kinesiology degree and moved to Victoria to row for the Canadian para-rowing development team and work as a trainer, that the Reach appeared in her feed again.
This Adaptive Mountain Bike Brings Freedom Back to Disabled Riders | cobrien | January 20, 2022 | Outside OnlineLouis Passfield, an adjunct professor in kinesiology at the University of Calgary, has been dreaming of calculating his way to a yellow jersey since he was an undergraduate at the University of Brighton around 25 years ago.
So from a neuromuscular standpoint, a dynamic warmup increases your body’s awareness of where it is in space and how it’s moving, says Dixie Stanforth, a kinesiology and health education professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
There’s a better way to warm up than stretching | John Kennedy | September 30, 2020 | Popular-Science
British Dictionary definitions for kinesiology
/ (kɪˌniːsɪˈɒlədʒɪ) /
the study of the mechanics and anatomy of human muscles
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