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Take a complex action like riding a bike: your qaudriceps and calf muscles are the agonists (contracting muscles). The antagonists are the muscles of your hamstring and shins. other leg muscles act as synergists and muscles of your back and abdomen act as fixators to stop you falling off.
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What is the fixator and synergist muscles when kicking a football?
water
What muscle interacts with a postural muscles for the most part?
Fixator
What is the fixator muscle used in sit ups?
The fixator is one of many muscles used during situps. The fixator muscle stabilizes one part of your body when you move another part.
What performs the same movement as the prime mover?
Synergists as well as fixator muscles.
Examples of fixator muscle?
The functions of a fixator muscle is the stabalizing of the orgin of the prime mover so that the prime mover can act more efficiently. Fixators steady the proximal end of a limb while movements occurs at the distal end. EX: The scapula is a freely movable bone that serves as the orgin for several muscles that move the arm. When the arm contracts the scapula must be held steady.
What is the term for the rotator cuff muscles and deltoid when elbow is flexed and the hand grabs a tabletop to lift the table?
fixator
What are some examples of muscles named for size?
Gluteus Maximus
Term for rotator cuff muscles and deltoid when the elbow is flexed?
its either agonists, antagonists, synergists, or a fixator. i know this may not help if you are doing the worksheet from Dr. Adcocks lab but hopefully these narrow it down to four for some people (-:
What are the examples of thick and thin muscles?
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What is the Fixator for a leg extension?
Gluteus maximus
Immobilizes the origin of a prime mover?
Fixator
