Exercise, Energy and Movement image galleries
Understanding how things work, especially in science, is often easier with a great visual. To help get to grips with the biological systems behind how and why we move, we've chosen a series of photographs, illustrations and micrographs from Wellcome Images for our four 'Big Picture: Exercise, Energy and Movement' image galleries.
We each have a skeleton to support our softer organs and tissues, but that's not all it does. By transmitting force and providing leverage, our skeleton allows us to move. Browse our gallery of 11 images of bones and skeletons to get closer to what's inside all of us.
Our lungs, our heart and the rest of our respiratory and circulatory systems are vital for getting oxygen into and around our bodies, as well as for getting rid of waste products. You can find out more about these vital body parts in this collection of nine images.
Living things move to survive, but humans move for many other kinds of reasons too. This gallery of 13 photographs and illustrations shows some of the different ways people move, particularly for exercise and physical training.
Muscles - specialised bundles of proteins - are involved in all kinds of biological processes, from locomotion to squeezing food through the digestive tract. We've chosen seven images that put muscles and tendons under the microscope.