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The triceps are the large muscles on the back of upper arms.

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behind your bicep, or on the backside of the upper part of the arm

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Where are your triceps muscles located in your body?

the tricep muscle is on the bottom or back side of your body


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 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.


Is the tricep a voluntary muscle?

The tricep muscle is mainly responsible for the straightening of the arm. This means that the tricep muscles are voluntary, and will only move if we wish to move our arms.


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.


What are effective exercises for developing tricep muscles?

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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 are the muscles in the upper arm that cause it to straighten?

Tricep brachii is responsible for extension (straightening) of the arm at the elbow. There are 3 heads of the Tricep; the long, lateral and medial heads. The Tricep is an antagonist of the bicep and brachialis muscles of the upper arm, which both assist in flexion at the elbow joint.


What do bicep musceles and tricep muscles work together to do?

The muscles are moving antagonistically.


What muscles surround the humerus bone?

The bicep on the front and the tricep on the back.


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