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Breathing - when you breathe in, your chest rises; when you breathe out, your chest falls.
The diaphragm (a sheet of muscle underneath the ribcage) and intercostal muscles (located between your ribs).
They expand.
When you breathe, the actions of your rib muscles and diaphragm expand or contract your chest. As a result, air flows in and out.
Everyone has muscles on their chest. Those muscles are there to help you breathe. They help your chest expand and contract when you breathe. If you are an athlete or an opera singer, you need all the air in your lungs you can get. In your training, you develop chest muscles. The fat lady in the opera, is not all fat. She has tremendous chest muscles because she has developed her lung capacity. She can hold a note and go without breathing much longer than an average person.
the chest moves front and back
Breathing is done by your diaphragm. When you breathe in, your diaphragm tightens (contracts) and moves downward so your lungs can expand. When you breathe out (exhale) your diaphragm relaxes (expands) and moves up into your chest.
When you breathe, the actions of your rib muscles and diaphragm expand or contract your chest. As a result, air flows in and out.
they expand
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This decreases the volume of the space inside the chest.
It expands