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Muscles such as those in the blood vessels stomach and intestines work without conscious control.?
Voluntary
Why would the stomach take a long time to digest food without the muscles?
Muscles cause contraction. Contraction aides in moving the food along.
What are two involuntary muscles?
Smooth muscles are involuntary in action means muscle that the muscles contract without conscious control. Smooth muscles are found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels.
How do you lose your stomach without doing sit ups?
Sit ups tone muscles, but you can lose some of your stomach just by weight loss. If you still need to tone up, just try contracting your stomach muscles when you're sitting down. Try to contract them for as long as you can; you should see an improvement after a week.
Why is smooth muscles important?
Smooth muscle is muscle that cannot be voluntarily controlled. One place it is found is in the digestive tract, performing peristalsis-- moving food along the digestive tract. Smooth muscle is important because it is subconsciously controlled, so you can go about your day without having to think, "Ok, stomach muscles, contract now... all right, your turn, small intestine...".
What is the purpose of the muscle system?
Muscles allow the body to move. There is your basic answer. To give more information, you have three types of muscles. They are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles. Your skeletal muscles are attached to your skeletal system as the name implies. The smooth muscles are all muscles that aren't skeletal muscles or cardiac muscles such as your diaphragm, which controls breathing, and stomach, which causes the stomach's contraction and expansion. Your cardiac muscles control the heart's beat. So as far as the purpose of the muscles system, is to keep you alive. Without it, you could not move, digest food, or circulate blood throughout your body.
What is the purpose of the muscled system?
Muscles allow the body to move. There is your basic answer. To give more information, you have three types of muscles. They are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles. Your skeletal muscles are attached to your skeletal system as the name implies. The smooth muscles are all muscles that aren't skeletal muscles or cardiac muscles such as your diaphragm, which controls breathing, and stomach, which causes the stomach's contraction and expansion. Your cardiac muscles control the heart's beat. So as far as the purpose of the muscles system, is to keep you alive. Without it, you could not move, digest food, or circulate blood throughout your body.
Should you bounce when you stretch your muscles?
no when you bounce, you do not get a proper stretch at all. hold you stretch for 10 to 20 seconds without bouncing.
What are 5 interesting things about your stomach?
I wouldn't be able to name five, but here are a couple: 1) The acid in your stomach used to digest food is corrosive. (and poisonous to drink) 2) Without a stomach, it would be impossible to have abdominal muscles. And that's about it.
Will dieting get rid of stomach fat?
Dieting reduces fat system-wide. In men, stomach fat is the most problematic. It goes on there first, and without exercise to tone the abdominal muscles, it looks like it comes off last.
What other involuntary muscles exist besides the heart?
If by involuntary you mean acting of its own accord, the organ the lungs act without you controlling them, even when you hold your breath eventually you will breathe of your own accord. The stomach and intestines are involuntary muscles.
List the mudcles that work indepently of your counscions thought?
Some examples of muscles that work independently of conscious thought include smooth muscles in internal organs like the stomach and intestines, cardiac muscle in the heart, and muscles involved in breathing such as the diaphragm. These muscles are controlled by the autonomic nervous system and carry out their functions without requiring conscious input.
