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your rectus abdominis is the prime mover in a crunch exercise or spinal flexion
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What are the muscles that help prime movers by stabilizing the movement?
Synergists
Which muscles are the prime movers stabilizers and synergists in a chin up?
jaw
What muscle opposes the prime movers?
Of all the muscles contracting simulataneously, the one that is mainly responsible for producing a particular movement is called the prime mover for that movement. The other muscles that help in producing the movement are called synergists. As prime movers and synergists muscles at a joint contract, other muscles, called antagonist muscles, relax.When antagonist muscles contract, they produce a movement opposite to that of the prime movers and their synergist muscles. -- I wrote kind of alot so you can under stand it just in case if you don't :)
What bones serve as the insertion for all muscles that act as prime movers of the thigh?
femur
What are the classification of muscles according to action?
prime movers : muscle that initiate a particular movement synergism : muscles that have the same action of the prime mover antagonist : muscles that come into play to oppose a certain movement
Which muscles are the prime movers in a press up?
The atissimus obrsi abdominals is the prime mover in a sit up.
Antagonists are muscles that resist what kind of actions and also cause movement in the opposite direction?
Antagonists are muscles that work in the opposite direction from prime movers and synergists.
When any specific movement is performed the muscles that act directly as prime movers to perform that movement are called what?
The agonist muscle
When any specific movement is performed the muscles that act directly as prime movers to perform that movement are called?
The agonist muscle
What are the prime movers in doing a plank exercise?
. The prime movers are the core muscles which include the abdominals (rectus abdominus, the transverse abdominus and the internal and external obliques), the lumbo-pelvic-hip area, and the back (erector spinae, quadratus lumborum, paraspinals and the psoas major). Other muscles used in this movement are the glutes and quadriceps.
Which muscles allow you to flare your fingers?
The muscles which allow you to extend your wrist and flare your fingers are the flexor muscles in the wrist and the prime movers in the fingers. These muscles will coordinate to adduct the wrist and the fingers.
When was The Prime Movers - Michigan band - created?
The Prime Movers - Michigan band - was created in 1965.
