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Movement terminology
100
This muscle is often referred to as the booty, buns, keister, or tushie.
What is the gluteus maximus?
100
Triceps
What is the arm?
100
An exercise to strengthen the abdominal muscles.
What are Sit-ups, planks, twists, leg raises etc?
100
Unlike involuntary muscle that protects internal organs, skeletal muscles are under ____ control which means we can choose to engage them.
What is voluntary?
100
A movement that increases the angle between two body parts.
What is extension?
200
This muscle extends across the chest. Its functions include: adduct and flex humerus; pull arm across chest, medial rotation of arm.
What is pectoralis?
200
Quadriceps
What are the legs?
200
This type of movement strengthens the pectoralis muscles producing an Arnold Schwarzenegger-type build.
Horizontal push (e.g. bench press, push-ups etc.)
200
The major types of muscle include skeletal muscle (concerned with movement), smooth muscle (lines internal organs and blood vessels), and this third type that is responsible for the contractions of the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
200
A movement that decreases the angle between two body parts.
What is flexion?
300
This muscle flexes the elbow and supinates the hand.
What are the biceps?
300
Obliques
What is the abdomen?
300
This person must do a lot of ______ for their quadriceps to look like this.
What are squats?
300
This type of muscle is concerned with movement, posture, and balance.
What is skeletal muscle?
300
Movement toward the midline of the body (e.g. squeezing thighs together).
What is abduction?
400
This muscle extends the elbow.
What are the triceps?
400
Rhomboideus
What is the back?
400
This type of exercise strengthens the cardiac muscle.
What is cardiovascular exercise (e.g. running, swimming, biking etc.)?
400
This term is associated with muscle growth.
What is hypertrophy?
400
Movement away from the midline of the body (e.g. moving your thighs apart).
What is adduction?
500
This muscle is responsible for pulling the shoulder down and back.
What is latissimus dorsi (i.e. the lats)?
500
Sternocleidomastoid
What is the neck?
500
This type of movement primarily uses the deltoids.
What is vertical pressing (e.g. shoulder press, overhead press etc.)?
500
Approximately how many skeletal muscles are there in the human body? Answer within 50 for a correct response.
What is approximately 650?
500
Using your biceps to turn your palms to face the ceiling has this fancy movement name.
What is supination?