Muscle Trivia
Largest muscle
What is the gluteus maximus?
Three types of muscles.
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle?
Long and thin skeletal muscle cells are often called by this name.
What are muscle fibers?
These muscles pull your heel up.
What are calf muscles?
These 2 things happen to your muscles when you use them a lot.
What is 1)get stronger and 2)grow more blood vessels?
Your heart beats about this many times in a day.
What is 100,000 times?
These muscles are attached to your bones, helping you move.
What are skeletal muscles?
Muscles get bigger when these strands of protein inside the muscle grow thicker.
What are myofibrils?
Exercise builds muscle, but also makes these stronger, making them harder to break.
What are bones?
A muscle that contracts and relaxes without your thinking about it.
What is an involuntary muscle?
Strongest muscle
What is the masseter (jaw muscle)?
This happens when nerves are damaged and the muscles can't receive messages.
What is becoming paralyzed ?
These are lined up in stripes inside myofibrils.
What are filaments?
God designed muscle cells to do this so that they don't get overtired.
What is "take turns"?
This happens to muscles if they are not used.
What is atrophy?
Disease that affects the masseter muscle, causing "lockjaw."
What is tetanus?
Many of these muscles attach to bone and to skin, allowing people to make unique expressions.
What are facial muscles?
Muscle cells are bundled together and wrapped in connective tissue made of this substance.
What is collagen?
When you exercise hard, you breathe faster to get more oxygen to these energy-producing structures inside your muscle cells.
What are mitochondria?
When your muscles can't get enough oxygen, they use this method to make energy, creating a waste product called lactic acid.
What is the anaerobic method?
Muscles are made mostly of this.
What is protein?
All skeletal muscles have these stripes.
What are striations?
The connective tissues form these, which attach muscles to bones.
What are tendons?
These muscles move your feet and toes.
What are your shin muscles?
These involuntary muscles, which do not have striations, are found in your blood vessels, stomach, intestines, and bladder.
What are smooth muscles?