The emerging emphasis on ADLs provides, in effect, another activity category that requires emphasis in the teaching and research programs in kinesiology. This emphasis brings with it another set of demands with regard to faculty expertise, facilities and general resources. It is self-evident that different physical activities bring different constraints to bear on human performance. For example, many sports skills demand more energy than ADLs. Weightlifting requires more strength than the manipulation of a computer mouse.
Dance demands more flexibility than work-related activities.
Nevertheless, there is the expectation in many areas of our field of study that there is a general theory for the different activity processes that is independent of the particular physical activity category. Gymnasts and dancers, in particular, excel at continuing to push back the boundaries to human movement forms. This site was developed by Annemarie Mountz .