{"id":17367,"date":"2025-03-26T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=17367"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:40","slug":"arm-wrestling-in-biol-4309-studies-in-human-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2025\/arm-wrestling-in-biol-4309-studies-in-human-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Arm Wrestling in BIOL 4309 Studies in Human Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Arm Wrestling in BIOL 4309 Studies in Human Performance\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Ever wonder what happens in an upper-year Biology lab? It might not be what you think! Students in BIOL 4309 <span class=\"courseblocktitle\">Studies in Human Performance learn about electromyography (EMG) through&#8230; Arm Wrestling!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course explores the biomechanical underpinnings of human performance including the quantitative analysis of human motion in normal activities and in athletic performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out this video from one of the lab sessions this Winter 2025 where Lab Coordinator Andras Dobai, with special guest Per Law from the <span data-teams=\"true\">ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Arm Wrestling Club, <\/span>lead the study of <span class=\"courseblocktitle\">electromyography (EMG) through calibration, safety, techniques and data collection: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SKUa8p20_ds?si=KCI3uMR0AP4BfZ_d&amp;t=720\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/SKUa8p20_ds?si=KCI3uMR0AP4BfZ_d&amp;t=720<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what happens in an upper-year Biology lab? It might not be what you think! Students in BIOL 4309 Studies in Human Performance learn about electromyography (EMG) through&#8230; Arm Wrestling!&nbsp; This course explores the biomechanical underpinnings of human performance including the quantitative analysis of human motion in normal activities and in athletic performance. Check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"person-to-person"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17371,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17367\/revisions\/17371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}