Fitdoc,

One of your posts last week that explained what muscles get employed during an Arnold press got me thinking about how little I know about what's going on under my skin while lifting.

Could you recommend any textbooks (perhaps medical school or college level texts) that would cover basic musclature (sp?) concepts as well as biochemical response, and kinetic response (I don't know if this is the proper term) to muscle contraction or stimulus?

If possible, I'd like one that doesn't assume too much pre-knowledge and has a lot of accompanying pictures.

As always, I appreciate any inputs you can provide, or if you can point me in the right direction for further investigation.

Tom

Sure Tom. I'm in the hospital until tomorrow, but once i get home, i'll get the titles from my library. There a two good ones that have lots of pictures and gives basic instruction regarding terms such as adduction, abduction, flexion, extension, etc...

"Recipe for Success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing."

1) Clinically Oriented Anatomy- Keith L. Moore and Arthur F. Dalley. Obviously a medical text, but the anatomical illustrations and biomechanical explainations are very good. You can simply ignore the medically relevant stuff in the book.

2) Atlas of Human Anatomy- Frank Netter. Almost everyone in medical school uses or used this text. Anatomical illustrations like none other, but does not include functional explaination.

"Recipe for Success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing."

Fitdoc,

Thanks so much for the helpful info! It's exactly what I was looking for.

Tom