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Q: Which muscle do you contract when you flex your arm?
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What muscle shows when you flex your arm?

Bicep.


What muscle can do?

Muscles can contract and shorten


When you flex your arm muscle what happens?

The muscle in your arm contracts. The muscle on the other side of your arm, opposite from the side that you are flexing, stretches.


What is the function of biceps brachii?

The function of the biceps brachii is to flex your arm at the elbow. However, even though that is the most visible muscle, the brachialis muscle is considered the prime mover in flexing at the elbow.


What movement does the arm make when the triceps muscle contract?

The biceps muscle relaxes!!!!!=)


How do muscles in your arm work together?

When you flex your arm your biceps contract, and your triceps extend. And when you unflex your arm the triceps contract and you biceps extend. The muscles work together to allow you to move your body.


Are bicep a smooth muscle?

yes and no it is a muscle but its like any other muscles when you flex your arm your bicep shows


What happens to your arm when you flex your muscle?

There are three muscles involved in flexing your elbow. They connect your upper arm to your forearm. When they contract, they become shorter and pull your forearm toward your upper arm.


When do muscles moves?

The fastest a muscle fiber can contract is 0.01 seconds or less. However, this is not necessarily the speed that the actual muscle contracts at. For example, the human eyelid can only blink in 0.15 seconds.


What could cause you to lose strength in your bicep?

Believe it or not, the bicep muscle has almost nothing to do with arm strength. That muscle is mostly responsible for allowing you to bend your arm or flex it towards your shoulder.


What detects a muscle is under stretch and therefore initiates the inverse stretch flex?

the muscle spindle detects excessive stretch within the muscle , it response and makes the muscle contract


Which muscles flex the arm?

the anterior part of the deltoid muscle flexes and medially rotates the humerus/ the arm. to do this it is helped by muscles like coracobrachialis and pectoralis major, corachobrachialis also adduct and flex the arm at shoulder joint.