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Alex Bloodworth 12-4-2013 S. Kindred Kinesiologist You maybe thinking that there's not a lot of chemistry involved with Kinesiology. I am here to tell you that is absolutely wrong. The average student may know that Kinesiology is the study of how one muscle reacts with every other muscle in the human body, and they would be absolutely right. But, if you go deeper in the details you see chemicals interacting with the smallest filaments in the muscle tissue. If it weren't for those chemicals, I would not be able to write this essay. Because I would not be able to move my muscles in order to do so. The main molecule that causes muscles to expand, stretch, or contract is ATP (Adenine III Phosphate.) But before we get really caught up with the whole Chemistry aspect to Kinesiology, A Muscular Anatomy lesson is in review. If you were to look at ANY muscle tissue under a microscope, you see the millions of cells that make up that said muscle. If you look at it closely you might notice something. Muscle cells use the most energy in the human body. That also means that muscle cells more mitochondria than any other cell known to man. The mitochondria are the power houses of a cell and this is where ATP is formed. To understand the further chemistry in Kinesiology, this all you really have to know in an Anatomical sense.

Bloodworth 2 Now this is where we really get the ball rolling on Chemistry. Remember that one molecule I told you about? Its ATP. ATP stands for Adenine Tri Phosphate. (Remember its Tri Phosphate keep that in mind for later.) Ok this is a process called, The Neuromuscular junction. Say you want to move your arm to pick up a cup of coffee or throw a football etc. The process is all the same. And that was step one. The brain gives a signal to a motor neuron. At the end of every motor neuron they have something called, Axons. So that motor neuron takes one of its axons and inserts into the muscle. The muscle then receives the signal and the signal says one thing and one thing only. Polarize. That means every positive and negative charge in this muscle is reversed. When the muscle polarizes, it has the signal, but it cant do anything with just a brain signal. It also needs energy! This is where ATP comes in. ATP is floating around every muscle cell in its multiple mitochondria. In order for the muscle to have the energy to perform the job the brain signal sent it, it has to take one Phosphate from ATP. This makes Adenine Tri Phosphate to Adenine Di Phosphate. But after the muscle receives that phosphate atom it finally has the energy to perform its purpose! That is chemistry right there in our own body. First the chemicals in the brain came up with a message. Then put those chemicals on nerve cell to give to a muscle. Then that signal made that muscle find ANOTHER chemical in order for it to expand, contract, flex, stretch, etc. Chemistry is happening at this very moment! As I am typing this paper, as you are moving your eyes to read this paper. For every character on this paper, that plus the number of times I had to fix and errors I had is the number of times my body had to use Chemistry. I came

Bloodworth 3 into this class thinking Chemistry is just a waste of my time, but because of my major if I ever said that again that would make me a hypocrite.