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muscles work in pairs so when the bicep relaxes the tricep contracts, these actions create elbow extention (arm lowering) creating an objuce angle- lowering stage in a bicep curl
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Which muscle relaxes when arm is strightened?
The bicep muscle. The tricep contracts to straighten the arm as the bicep relaxes.
When you straighten your arm the tricep and the bicep?
The tricep contracts and the bicep relaxes.
What causes your arm to bend?
The bicep contracts while the tricep relaxes
How does the triceps and biceps work together to straighten your arm?
When lowering arm biceps relax and triceps contracts. When one contracts the other relaxes when you move it forward and downward.
What is the top muscle in your arm called?
If you're talking about the one that everyone's always asking for when they say, "Make a muscle!" then it's your BICEP. The bicep is the muscle that contracts when the arm is bent, and the tricep is the one that relaxes.
How your arm uses muscles to move?
Your arm uses its bicep and tricep muscle to move. Muscles can only contract so they have to work in pairs. Ex. Bicep and tricep One muscle contract, the other relaxes
What muscle relaxes and what muscle works?
I think what your after is called an antagonistic pair of muscles, for example the bicep and the tricep. When the bicep is contracting the tricep relaxes and when the tricep is contracting the bicep relaxes.
When the bicep contacts what muscle relaxes?
When the bicep contracts, the tricep relaxes. These pair of muscles are known as antagonists which means as one contracts, the other relaxes and vice versa.
Bending the arm what the muscles are doing?
The Bicep muscle (one on top) is contracting The Tricep muscle (one below) if relaxing The Bicep and Tricep muscles are antagonistic- they work as opposites, so when one contracts, the other relaxes.
What are all of the skeletal muscles in the body?
Muscles are set kind off like sets. Muscles can only contract and relax. It takes at least two muscles to move a part of the body fully. For example, when your arm is straight, your triceps (back of your arm) contract and the bicep relaxes. When your move your arm to a l shape, the bicep contacts and the tri relaxes. This happens through out the whole body.
What muscle extends the arm in a push-up?
break throw muscle shrug write
Where is the bicepes located?
the bicep is located in your arm
