Kinesiology — Concept, Meaning, Definitions and Importance

Sports and exercise keep us fit, but only a few people understand the logic and the technical points behind the movements that make us fit. Biology and Physics together explain those technicalities, and coaches and teachers who grasp them can genuinely improve an athlete's performance. The science that studies human movement in this way is kinesiology.

This group of sub-sections introduces kinesiology for a Class 11 Physical Education student: first the shared concept of kinesiology and biomechanics (8.1.1), then the meaning of kinesiology in sports (8.1.2), its formal definitions (8.1.3), and finally its importance in sports and physical education (8.1.4). Biomechanics — the mechanical, force-based part of this same field — is then taken up in its own section (8.2). …