The Muscular System
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- Created on: 10-03-14 18:14
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- The Muscular System
- Muscle Types
- Voluntary muscles make the body move. They are attached to the skeleton and can be controlled.
- The body's involuntary muscles work our internal organs. They are outside our control
- Movement
- If a muscle contracts to create movement, it is called an isotonic contraction.
- When a muscle contracts with no resulting movement, it is an isometric contraction.
- Muscle Tone and Posture
- Regular training tones muscles and helps to create good posture.
- muscles will hypertrophy (increase in size) and develop better endurance.
- Muscular Pairs
- Antagonistic pairs of muscles create movement when one (the prime mover) contracts and the other (the antagonist) relaxes.
- An example would be the biceps and triceps
- Muscle Types
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