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to move arm upwards, the biceps contracts. Triceps don't do any work here~
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What muscle pair helps you move your arm?
Biceps/triceps.
What muscles are used to move the upper arm?
biceps and triceps
How are triceps and biceps useful?
When your biceps contract (and your triceps relax), your arm bends at the elbow. When your triceps contract (and your biceps relax), your arm straightens. The biceps and triceps enable you to bend or extend your arm at the elbow.
What are facts about the biceps and triceps.?
biceps are on your upper arm and triceps are below your biceps
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.
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 ;)
What will happened if the biceps stop contracting and triceps contract?
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 is larger the biceps of the upper arm or triceps of the upper arm?
Triceps
When the triceps contract what do the biceps do?
The triceps and biceps are antagonistic muscle groups; the triceps straighten the arm and the biceps pull it in the opposite way. Therefore, when the triceps contract, the biceps lengthen.
What are triceps biceps and hamstrings?
triceps and biceps are related (triceps for extemsion of the arm, biceps for flexion). Hamstrings are at a different place (in the leg). No relation
When you move the muscles of your lower arm which muscles of your body contract and relax?
biceps and triceps respectively
What are biceps trieps and deltoids?
Front of arm are biceps triceps are the back of arm and deltoids are shoulders
