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The muscles are moving antagonistically.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoMove the forearm at the elbow
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What muscle relaxes and what muscle works?
I think what your after is called an antagonistic pair of muscles, for example the bicep and the tricep. When the bicep is contracting the tricep relaxes and when the tricep is contracting the bicep relaxes.
What is it that muscles are not able to do?
Muscles can only pull not push. That is why they work in pairs an example is your tricep and bicep, your bicep pulls your arm up and your tricep pulls your arm down.
Which muscles contract when forearm is flexed at the elbow?
Both the tricep and the bicep are muscles which control rotational movement at the elbow. The bicep contracts when the forearm is flexed, and the tricep contracts when the forearm is extended.
What are the names of your arm muscles?
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What are the hybrid muscles in the upper limb?
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What muscles surround the humerus bone?
The bicep on the front and the tricep on the back.
What is the upper arm muscles?
There are two main ones, the tricep and the biscep. The tricep bicep is on the inside angle as defined by your elbow, the tricep is on the outside.
How your arm uses muscles to move?
Your arm uses its bicep and tricep muscle to move. Muscles can only contract so they have to work in pairs. Ex. Bicep and tricep One muscle contract, the other relaxes
What Muscles Would You Use In Press Ups?
I think it might be a bicep and a tricep
How many muscles are needed to raise and lower your arm?
2; The Bicep and the Tricep
Musslces in upper arm?
The muscles in the top of your arms are the bicep, tricep and deltiod.
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.
