KNES 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Triceps Brachii Muscle, Biceps, Vastus Intermedius Muscle

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Smooth muscles: involuntary, controls internal movements. Blood vessels, dilate or constrict to control flow of the blood. Skeletal muscles: voluntary, move your bones, you have more than 400 voluntary muscles. Number of heads or number of muscles within a complex: biceps brachii: 2 heads, long/short, triceps brachii: 3 heads, lateral, long, middle, quadriceps: 4 parts, rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis and vastus intermedius. Size: gluteus maximus (largest gluteal muscle), gluteus medius, gluteus minimus. Action: adductor longus, adductor magnus, adductor brevis, pronator teres. Shape: trapezius (trapezoid, deltoids (deltoid, means triangular) Direction of fibers (which way do the fibers run?) Types of muscle actions: no visible change in length, external oblique, internal oblique, transverse abdominis. Isometric muscle exerts a force equal to the resistance force. Isotonic muscle length changes: concentric muscle exerts force and visibly shortens, eccentric muscle exerts a force and muscle lengthens. Isokinetic same velocity: speed of contraction is controlled. Agonist: prime mover; responsible for the movement.

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