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What happens to your biceps muscle when you straighten your elbow?
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∙ 8y ago
It either expands or contracts depending on which way you're bending your elbow.
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∙ 11y ago
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What happens when you bend your arms?
your biceps contract and your triceps relax
What 2 muscle work to bend or straighten your elbow?
The biceps and the triceps.-McKenzie
How do skeletal muscles work as a pair to bend and straighten the arm at the elbow?
When you bend your elbow, the biceps muscle contracts. At the same time the antagonist muscle, that is the triceps muscle relaxes in synchronized manner. Vise verse action take place, when you straighten the arm at the elbow. Triceps contracts and biceps relaxes.
where in the muscles would you find triceps?
They are the opposite muscle to the biceps. If you bend your arm to make the muscle on the top (the biceps) bulge, the muscle on the bottom (the triceps) relaxes. The triceps is on the back of your arm, and is used to straighten the elbow.
What muscle contracts when the elbow is bent?
The Biceps brachii muscle. We just call it the biceps, though. (Pronounced bye-seps) To straighten the arm again, the triceps muscle is contracted - which lies 'underneath' the upper arm.
Muscle that allows you to flex the elbow?
The Biceps flex the elbow The Triceps extend the elbow
Which muscles straighten the arm?
no it isnt because the arm is bent by the flexor muscles (mostly just the biceps), and straightened by the extensor muscles (ie. the triceps).
What is the muscle between the elbow and shoulder?
the biceps
When you bend your elbo what is the triceps muscle acting as in relation to the biceps muscle?
when you bend your elbow, what is the triceps muscle acting as in relation to the biceps muscle
The forearm is flexed at the elbow when the blank muscle contracts?
Biceps Biceps
What do the triceps and biceps muscles do?
The triceps muscles extend (straighten) the arm, while the biceps muscles flex (bend) it at the elbow joint.
When you bend your elbow what triceps muscle acting as in relation to the biceps muscle?
An Antagonist
