What are muscles?
What are the functions of muscle?
Why are they so important within the human body?
How many muscles are found within the human body?
What are three different types of muscles
What are the two basic types of muscle fibers?
What are different types of muscle contractions?
Answer each question separately all within 3 sentences.
1. Muscles are soft tissues found within the body that work together to produce movement and maintain posture.
2. The functions of muscles include movement, stability, heat production, and control of internal organs.
3. Muscles are important within the human body because they allow us to stand, walk, run, breathe, and perform other essential activities.
4. There are over 600 muscles found within the human body.
5. The three different types of muscles are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac.
6. The two basic types of muscle fibers are slow-twitch and fast-twitch.
7. Different types of muscle contractions include isotonic, isometric, concentric, eccentric, and plyometric contractions.