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Your elbow joint get extended. Your upper limb becomes straight.

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Tricep contracts when you extend your forearm and the biceps relax. The two are reversed if you elevate your forearm

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Your triceps will contract or stretch when you bend your elbow.

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Elbow joint gets extended.

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How does your triceps help you bend your arm?

Triceps does not help to bend your arm. It helps to straighten your upper limb across the elbow.


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


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 2 muscle work to bend or straighten your elbow?

The biceps and the triceps.-McKenzie


When you bend your elbow what triceps muscle acting as in relation to the biceps muscle?

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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.


What happens when you bend your arms?

your biceps contract and your triceps relax


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 is the elbow?

The triceps.


When you bend your elbow what is the triceps muscle acting as in relation acting as in relation to the biceps muscle?

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Explain the function of flexors and in extensors?

these muscle groups either extend a joint, extensors) or contract the joint (flexors). triceps extend the elbow joint, biceps bend the elbow joint.