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When a muscle is contracting what is the other doing?
Detracting
When a muscle is contracting the other is?
relaxing
What are you doing when you were alternately contracting and relaxing your masseter muscle?
you would be opening and closing your jaw.
Bending the arm what the muscles are doing?
The Bicep muscle (one on top) is contracting The Tricep muscle (one below) if relaxing The Bicep and Tricep muscles are antagonistic- they work as opposites, so when one contracts, the other relaxes.
When one muscle contract what does the other muscle do?
The other relaxes. This other is called the antagonist. The one contracting is called the agonist.
What is the opposite of a muscle contracting?
A muscle is either contracting (doing work) or relaxing (not under tension). Some muscles do not ever completely relax under normal conditions.
Is Concentric in exercise shortening of muscle or not?
Looking form the out side the two bones to which the Muscle is attached moves closer when the muscle is contracting concentrically while they do not when muscle is contracting eccentrically
When your muscle shortens and moves a load?
muscle fibers contracting
What muscle action does pulling represent?
It represents contracting or shortening of a muscle.
What are the two movement of muscle?
Pulling and contracting is how a muscle moves the bones ....
A muscle causes a bone to move by?
contracting.
Name given to contracting units of muscle fibers?
The name given to contracting units of muscle fibers is sarcomeres. Sarcomeres are the basic functional units of skeletal muscles and they contain overlapping thick and thin filaments that slide past each other during muscle contraction.
