Personal Narrative: My Momentum In Basketball

To generate as much momentum that I could into my basketball shot, I had to stretch out, and use all my body segments, time my body segments, sequence my body segments and use full range of motion.

By

stretching out my muscles before performing the free throw, my muscles were able to contract with optimal force and therefore assist to generating maximum force and momentum.

Using

all of my body segments meant that

I

could generate the momentum and force from planter flexing my ankles to extending my knees and hips to extending my arms and elbows to flexing my wrists

(my

larger muscle groups would move before smaller muscle groups).

I

would also need to sequence the body segments, meaning that the larger muscles would contract first. This

meant