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How does the triceps and biceps work together to straighten your arm?
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∙ 12y ago
When lowering arm biceps relax and triceps contracts.
When one contracts the other relaxes when you move it forward and downward.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 13y agoWell, when you bend your arm, your bicep contracts, and your tricep relaxes, so, if you straighten your arm your bicep must relax, and your tricep contracts. :)
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∙ 12y agothey are antagonistic. when one relaxes, one contracts
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∙ 8y agoWhen lowering arm biceps relax and triceps contracts. When one contracts the other relaxes when you move it forward and downward.
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What 2 muscle work to bend or straighten your elbow?
The biceps and the triceps.-McKenzie
How do muscles in your arm work together?
When you flex your arm your biceps contract, and your triceps extend. And when you unflex your arm the triceps contract and you biceps extend. The muscles work together to allow you to move your body.
What muscle causes a joint to straighten when it contracts?
The muscle that causes a joint to straighten when it contracts are the extensor muscles. These include the triceps that work with the biceps to extend the arm.
Why the biceps alone cannot make the arm straighten?
The biceps flexes the arm it does not extend it (straightens). The triceps brachii extends the arm. They do work together. If one is damaged and doesn't work as it should, the movement will be "jerky" and not smooth.
What muscle work with triceps muscles to bend?
i am not sure but it might have something to do with your triceps and biceps
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When you bend your elbow, the biceps muscle contracts. At the same time the antagonist muscle, that is the triceps muscle relaxes in synchronized manner. Vise verse action take place, when you straighten the arm at the elbow. Triceps contracts and biceps relaxes.
How does a tricep work?
The triceps work together with the biceps. They form an antagonistic pair, which means that when one contracts the other relaxes, in order to move your bones. When the biceps are contracting, the triceps are relaxed, and stretches back to its original position. The opposite happens when the triceps contract.
My Triceps are Bigger than my Biceps?
Your triceps are ment to be bigger....after all they are two thrids of the upper arm....people seem to focus on increasing the size of their biceps, this doesn't make there arms look much bigger and also can cause great damage. If I were you I would work out your triceps just as much as biceps, if not more ;)
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Triceps :)
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Due the pair of Biceps and Triceps our Muscles move. If biceps stop contracting and triceps contract so we will be able to move but our some muscles of arm would not move.
What do the biceps and triceps do to move an arm upwards?
to move arm upwards, the biceps contracts. Triceps don't do any work here~
