Muscles can contract and shorten
You extend the muscles neccisary, and contract others.
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.
No, they can also contract, they do every time you use them to move an arm, a leg, etc..
only contract, never extend. if it looks like it is extending, that's just another muscles contraction.
Muscles contract and relax to move a joint. ... Muscles contract at a constant rate. Muscles contract and relax to move a joint.
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.
None. Muscles only contracts. In order to extend, the muscle on the opposite movement has to contract. For example, the biceps help flex the elbow, but it does not extend the elbow; the triceps does that.
Muscles are a bit like rope, they can pull, but they can't push. So in evey important way, they only move bone when they contract.
muscles contract and relax by bring about movements.
They contract and relax
Extensor muscles extend or straighten a body part.