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When a muscle moves, several things have to happen at once. In the simplest form, let's say you are extending you hand in friendship and thus "stretching" your arm outward. The primary skeletal muscles in this movement would be the biceps brachii and it's companion, the triceps brachii. According to the 3rd Law of Motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If the biceps contracts, the triceps relaxes and vice versa. To extend your arm the triceps will be in contraction and the biceps will be relaxed or "stretched out".
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What benefits achieved when stretched the muscles?
Improve your mobility.
Muscles will ordinarily stay healthy if they are?
stretched or excersised.
A technique in which the muscles are stretched by an outside force is called?
passive stretching
A muscle's ability to resume resting after being stretched is called?
elasticity
The ability to be stretched into thin wires?
malleability and tensile strength.
Why do you need muscles to move around?
yes. muscles allow your bones to move. if you didn't have muscles, you'd be skin stretched over bones lying in a heap on the ground.
Does monkey bars make you get taller?
Yes it does because your muscles are pulled and therefore stretched :)
The most distinguishing characteristic of muscle tissue is?
Excitability = the ability to receive and respond to a stimulus Contractility = the ability to shorten Extensibility = the ability to be stretched Elasticity = the ability to resume normal length after contraction or having been stretched.
What elements usually have the ability to be stretched bent and conduct electricity?
The metal elements.
Which problem of the muscular system results when muscles are stretched or partially torn from overexertion?
Muscle strain
When a muscle is stretched by a contraction of the opposing muscles it is called .?
if you're on OdysseyWare your answer would be Active stretching.............. =)
Do skeletal muscles give you strength and the ability to move?
They do give the ability to move but not strength.
