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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.

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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.


Which muscle do you contract when you flex your arm?

supraspinatus muscle


What muscle shows when you flex your arm?

Bicep.


What happens when you flex your muscle?

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.


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 the muscle when the arm is bent?

Which muscle? The biceps, at the front of the arm, get shorter, and the triceps, at the back, get longer.


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.


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.


Do the triceps flex or extend the forearm?

extensorThe triceps brachii is an extensor. It is the large muscle on the back of the arm and is primarily the muscle used for extension of the elbow joint or straightening of the arm. The triceps is also an antagonist of the biceps and the brachialis muscles.ExtensorsTriceps is not a flexor. It is extensor of the elbow joint.


What muscle flexes the humerus?

The biceps brachii muscle is responsible for flexing the humerus. It is a two-headed muscle located in the upper arm that helps in bending the elbow and also plays a role in shoulder flexion when the arm is rotated.


What happens when you pull on a chicken wing's arm muscle?

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