Round 1
What type of muscle is voluntary and attached to bones?
What is skeletal muscle.
What type of muscle is found in internal organs and is involuntary?
What is smooth muscle.
What is the only type of muscle found in the heart?
What is cardiac muscle.
Which muscle type has striations?
What is skeletal muscle.
What is the fibre type for a marathon runner?
What is type 1
Name a muscle type that contracts automatically without conscious control?
What are the cardiac and smooth muscles
What connects muscles to bones?
What are tendons.
What is the negative phase of a muscular contraction, where the muscle lengthens under tension
What is an eccentric contraction?
What are the agonist and antagonist when performing a sit up?
WHat are the abdominals and erector spinae?
What are the synergists when extending the leg? if the agonist and antagonists are the quadriceps and hamstrings?
What is the gastrocnemius, soleus and tibialis anterior?
Which muscle group is the agonist when extending the leg at the knee?
What is the quadricep
What is the name of the largest muscle in the human body?
What is gluteus maximus.
What is a sudden, involuntary muscle contraction called?
What is a muscle cramp.
What is the name of the condition where muscles waste away due to lack of use?
What is atrophy?
What type of impulse is sent to contract the muscle?
What is an electrical impulse?
What is the name of the process where muscles contract without changing length
What is an isometric contraction.
What is the process when an impulse is sent through the neuron to the muscle fibres to innervate
What is the All or None Law
What is the antagonist muscle in the downwards phase of a bicep curl
What is the bicep muscle.
What is one of the two adaptations that involve the storage of food?
What is the increase in storage of glycogen or fats?
What does the impulse travel down to get to the motor unit?
What is a motor neuron?
What is an adaptation in which the muscle grows in size
What is hypertophy
What is a response to exercise that occurs in the two days post exercise
What is DOMS
What is the difference between the response and adaptations regarding lactate
What is an increase in lactate and what is an increased tolerance in lactate?
What is a response to exercise where the muscle is damaged
What are microtears?
What is the order of the recruitment of muscle fibres when requiring maximum force?
What are type 1, type 11a, type 11x?