r/AnatomyandPhysiology

I've been curious about this for years and all my friends treat me like a freak for this. As a little kid, my mom would make me laugh by having me chug water and the shaking me around so I could hear it slosh. I thought it was so funny, I learned to do it voluntarily with no external force. I'm in my 20s and can do it at will. If I've had anything to drink you can clearly hear it move around.

My abs don't look like they're flexing at all, and they stay soft to touch while doing. I can breathe normally while doing it, though it impacts exhalation just enough to make my speaking sound weird. I think I've been inadvertently working out my deep core by doing this for years and years as I've had a baby and my doctor would comment at each appointment that I had the strongest core she had ever seen.

Would I be able to move the transversi abdominis without moving any of the surround muscles? And are those muscles able to be easily moved side to side?

Whenever I get cold, I can send a wave of warmth from the top if my neck and down my body, into my feet, momentarily warming me up.

From the basic research I’ve done, I saw some stuff on voluntarily generated piloerection, but I don’t think that’s it since it’s incredibly rate. Additionally, I can’t do it whenever I want, only when I’m cold enough to need it, and the research paper I read said the subjects with voluntarily generated piloerectionit could trigger it when in an emotional state, not when cold. Also, there’s a cooldown on whatever I have. I can’t do it over and over again, I need to wait a bit each time. However, if I am cold enough and I have’t done it recently, all I need to do is lean my head back slightly and I can trigger this wave and briefly warm myself up.

So, what is this, and how am I able to do this?

I start a 6 week A&P 1 course tomorrow, and am stressing about being able to learn everything in this short of a time period. My class is fully online (including lab) and am looking for advice.

Which websites/apps would you recommend?
How many hours did you find yourself studying in a day?
What study methods did you find helped you the most?

If you have anything else to add, please do!

I’m taking anatomy and physiology 1 in the fall semester and want to start studying now. Just looking for advice on how to start! If there’s like an app that I can look at everyday and just practice testing on it or online lectures. My preferred way of learning is repetition (testing on like 5-10 things and just retrying until I get it right). I’m needing to get a good grade in this class.

Also would people suggest taking med term with anatomy and physiology? I’ve heard it can be helpful and I need an extra elective aswell (and figured med term could be a good one)

Any general advice aswell would be super appreciated!!!

I’m taking a&p next year and I figured I might as well get a head start over the summer, so I’m wondering what’re some good channels, books, quizzes, etc. that would be good for me to utilize. and what should I focus on? memorizing? or other?? thanks 🙂