Muscle Vocabulary
What do we call muscles you can control on purpose?
Voluntary Muscles
This chest muscle helps you push
Pectoral (pecs)
This large muscle helps pulls your arms down and back
Latissimus Dorsi (lats)
This muscle helps you sit up or bend forward
Rectus Abdominis
What muscle helps you pick up groceries by bending your elbow?
Biceps
What is the tough band that connects muscle to bone?
Tendon
This muscle lifts your arms in many directions
Deltoid
This muscle lifts your shoulders and supports your neck
Trapezius (traps)
These muscles help you twist side to side
External Obliques
What muscle helps you push a shopping cart?
Pectorals
What is it called when a muscle tightens and gets shorter?
Contraction
This muscle bends your elbow
Biceps
This muscle pulls your shoulder blades together
Rhomboids
These deeper muscles help stabilize the core during twisting
Internal Obliques
What muscle helps you stand up straight?
Erector Spinae
What type of muscle helps move your skeleton?
Skeletal muscle
this muscle straightens your arm
Triceps
This muscle helps you stand straight and bend backward
Erector Spinae
This deepest abdominal muscle helps keep your spine stable
Transverse Abdominis
What muscles do you use when twisting your torso to grab something from the car?
Obliques
what is the opposite of contraction, when a muscle goes back to normal length?
Relaxation
This muscle helps you grip, twist, and move your wrist
Forearm
Which back muscle is most used during pull ups
Latissimus Dorsi (lats)
Which abdominal muscle is most used during planks?
Transverse abdominis
Name three different everyday activities that use your abdominal muscles.
Sitting up, twisting, standing tall, balance lifting, coughing, laughing, climbing stairs