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What Muscle extends in any movement?

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∙ 15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

None. Muscles only contracts. In order to extend, the muscle on the opposite movement has to contract. For example, the biceps help flex the elbow, but it does not extend the elbow; the triceps does that.

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