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Your body produces a source of energy from food. It is called ATP. This is what your muscles use to contract.
The signals are sent through a simple structure. The electronic signals from your brain travel through a gap in between your muscle and your nerves.
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What happens during isokinetic exercise Muscles contract at a constant rate. Muscles contract and relax to move a joint. Muscles do not contract at all. Muscles contract with very little body movement.?
Muscles contract and relax to move a joint. ... Muscles contract at a constant rate. Muscles contract and relax to move a joint.
Why are heart muscles involuntary?
You imagine the heart muscles to be voluntary. So you will contract the muscles of atria. Then you will contract the muscles of ventricles. This you will do 70 to 80 times per minute. You can not sleep, as the process has to be continued, through out your life.
How are muscles especially adapted for their function?
They have elasticity so they can lengthen, they have flexibility so they can regain their original shape, excitability so they can be made to contract, and they have contract bility so they can contract.
What muscle can do?
Muscles can contract and shorten
How do muscles contract and relax?
muscles contract and relax by bring about movements.
What two ways do muscles work?
They contract and relax
Why are proteins important to the body's muscles?
Bacically your protein muscles are contract with the glumise muscles they make you have lots of protein so listen to answers.com
What happens if the papillary muscles fail to contract?
If the papillary muscles fail to contract the valves will prolapse. The papillary muscles are located in the ventricles and contract to prevent prolapse.
Why are the bones of the skeleton important for movement?
they allow for leverage so the muscles can contract
What muscle skeletal muscles do to move?
Skeletal muscles rely on contractions to move the bone they are attached to so it is contract and relax
Can you contract your smooth and cardiac muscles on purpose?
Smooth Muscles can, but Cardiac Muscles can not.
When muscles contract what do they do?
Shorten
