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Chapter 1:INCREDIBLE MUSCLES AT WORK Chapter 2:PARTS OF YOUR BUSY MUSCLES Chapter 3:The Muscle Process Chapter 4:The Muscle Process Chapter 5:The Muscles Enemy: Muscular Dystrophy Chapter 6:cool facts Chapter 7:glossary Chapter 8:bibliography
The Muscular system has different types of muscles that make your body move. Without muscles you couldnt move. Each muscle has its own unique job which is not only moving your body, it also enables you swallow food, breath and digest. Tendons a slight different job they anchor the muscle to the bone.
One of the most known muscles is the biceps, because the guys always show them off when talking about muscles. The biceps are located in the upper part of the arm. The triceps are the opposite of the biceps and when you push a chair in you are activating this muscle. When you kick a soccer ball you activate your quadricep. The gluteus Maximus is known because is the one you sit on every day. Pectoral muscles help you do push ups. Your abdominal muscle helps you lift yourself up when laying down. And the deltoid allows you to throw a baseball.
The muscular system is very complex and each muscle does a different thing with one purpose, to move. Each part of the body comes with two or more muscles that make your body move. When you ex your leg, your arm, or even smile one muscle relaxes and the other contracts.when you ex your arm you are using the bicipital muscle area or biceps when you grab the monkey bar and swing one muscle is relaxing and the other contracting.
I learned a lot of the muscles and now i learned how important they are for our survival discovering more about the muscles was fun new things came up and I understood the importance of the muscular system,I understood how serios is muscular dystrohy.muscles are the best I liked learning about muscles and y hope you too!
Cool facts
40% of your weight are muscles. If you hold your arms pushing outward for one (1) minute when you release them they will go up automatically. Muscles move your eyes too! You use 50 muscles to do a funny face. You have over 700 muscles in your body
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GLOSSARY
Abdominis: muscle located in the abdominal area.
Bone: Substance that forms the skeleton of the human body.
Bicep: The arm Upper muscle.
Contraction: When the muscle bers shrink.
Deltoid: A triangular muscle covering the joint of the shoulder.
Dystrophin: a substance that helps your muscle move.
Gluteus maximums: A thick muscle of the bottom.
Muscle: a Tissue composed of bers.
Muscle Fiber: The materials which muscle are made of.
Muscular Dystrophy: A genetic disorder that affects the muscles movement.
Pectoral: Chest muscle.
Quadriceps: A large muscle in front of the thigh
Tendon: a white dense inelastic cord that anchors the bone to de muscle
Triceps: The arm bottom muscle.
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