Types of Muscle
Muscle Action
Contraction Types
Fiber Types
Muscle Naming
100
Type muscle found in the digestive tract

Smooth Muscle

100

The main muscle that contracts responsible for a given movement

Prime Mover


100

Shortening the muscle to move weight - often the upward phase of a movement

Concentric contraction

100

Type of muscle fiber a distance runner would have

Slow twitch (Type 1)
100

The Anterior Tibialis is named based off this

Location

200
Type of muscle found only in the Heart

Cardiac Muscle


200
Muscle that assists the prime mover 

Synergist

200

Muscle contract but don't change length. 

Isometric Contraction

200

Type of muscle fiber of a sprinter

Fast Twitch (Type 2x) 
200

The flexors in your fingers are named after this

Muscle action 

300

Type of muscle that moves your body? 

Skeletal Muscle

300

The muscle that relaxes when the prime mover contracts? 

Antagonist 
300

Lengthening (elongating) a muscle, resisting gravity

Eccentric  contraction

300

Type of muscle fibers used while running 800 meters (both Aerobic & Anaerobic). 

Fast Twitch (Type 2a)

300

Your Obliques are named based upon this

Direction of muscle fibers