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Triceps does not help to bend your arm. It helps to straighten your upper limb across the elbow.

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How are triceps and biceps useful?

When your biceps contract (and your triceps relax), your arm bends at the elbow. When your triceps contract (and your biceps relax), your arm straightens. The biceps and triceps enable you to bend or extend your arm at the elbow.


Describe the action of your muscles when you bend your arm and then straighten it again?

The muscles in your arm never expand; so when you bend your arm, your biceps contract as your triceps return to their regular form. When you extend your arm, you triceps contract as your biceps return to their regular form.


How do muscles bring about movement in an organism?

Contraction of the biceps and the relaxation of the triceps bend the arm .In straightening the arm the triceps contract and the biceps relax


where in the muscles would you find triceps?

They are the opposite muscle to the biceps. If you bend your arm to make the muscle on the top (the biceps) bulge, the muscle on the bottom (the triceps) relaxes. The triceps is on the back of your arm, and is used to straighten the elbow.


What do the triceps and biceps muscles do?

The triceps muscles extend (straighten) the arm, while the biceps muscles flex (bend) it at the elbow joint.


What could you not do without triceps?

The triceps are the muscles that flex in order for the arm to bend straight. The biceps(the muscle that rests on your humerus) does the opposite thing and bends it toward you. If you don't have the triceps, then you can't bend the arm away from you that means, no punching, reaching out, push ups, and even simple typing and writing can prove difficult if you don't have triceps.


What can you do to fix your triceps as your arm cannot bend?

You fell on a stone when you were still very young and your muscles between the upper and the lower arm are packed together or shringed which makes the arm not to bend fully what remedy can be done?


What is the most familiar muscles of the upper arm?

The biceps is the muscle on the front of the upper arm; it bulges when you bend your arm at the elbow. The triceps is the muscle on the back of the upper arm. Note that "biceps" and "triceps" can be either singular or plural. It is incorrect to say "bicep" or "tricep."


What will happened if the biceps stop contracting and triceps contract?

Due the pair of Biceps and Triceps our Muscles move. If biceps stop contracting and triceps contract so we will be able to move but our some muscles of arm would not move.


What muscles help you move your lower arm?

The main muscles responsible for moving the lower arm are the biceps and triceps. The biceps are responsible for bending the arm at the elbow, while the triceps are responsible for straightening the arm at the elbow. Additionally, muscles in the forearm, such as the flexor and extensor muscles, help with fine movements of the lower arm and wrist.


Do you use both the bicep and the tricep to straighten the arm?

No. Try and feel. Only triceps is contracted, biceps bend the arm over the elbow joint.