Muscular System

Question 1

What do voluntary muscles do?

Answer 1

Make the body move as they are attached to bones

Question 2

Provide an example of voluntary muscles

Answer 2

Pectorals and trapezius

Question 3

What do involuntary muscles do

Answer 3

Work internal organs, outside our control

Question 4

What’s a cardiac muscle?

Answer 4

A muscle that is unique to the heart, never tires

Question 5

What’s an origin

Answer 5

Place the muscle starts

Question 6

What’s an insertion

Answer 6

Place the muscle finishes

Question 7

What’s the relaxing muscle called

Answer 7

Antagonist

Question 8

What’s the contracting muscle called

Answer 8

Agonist

Question 9

What are muscles made up of

Answer 9

Muscle fibres

Question 10

What happens when muscle fibres contract

Answer 10

They pull on the bone and cause movement

Question 11

Can muscles push?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

Why do muscles work in pairs?

Answer 12

So the bone can move forward and backwards

Question 13

What are the 5 types of muscle action

Answer 13

Extension, flexion, adduction, abduction, rotation

Question 14

What’s type 1?

Answer 14

Slow twitch

Question 15

What’s type 11a?

Answer 15

Combination

Question 16

What’s type 11x?

Answer 16

Fast twitch

Question 17

What happens at plantar flexion?

Answer 17

The toes point down(gastronemius)

Question 18

What happens at Dorsiflexion?

Answer 18

When toes pull up(tibialis anterior)

Question 19

Name the 2 types of contraction

Answer 19

Isometric and isotonic

Question 20

Does anything move with isometric contractions?

Answer 20

No

Question 21

Does anything move with isotonic contractions?

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

What type of training is usually with isometric contractions?

Answer 22

Weight and circuit

Question 23

Is isometric used in sport?

Answer 23

Not often

Question 24

What type of contraction is concentric

Answer 24

Isotonic

Question 25

What type of contraction is eccentric

Answer 25

Isotonic

Question 26

What is concentric contraction

Answer 26

When a muscle shortens creating movement

Question 27

What is eccentric contraction

Answer 27

When a muscle lengths as it contracts, a slow or controlled movement

Question 28

Which is more common

Answer 28

Concentric

Question 29

Name an example of eccentric contraction

Answer 29

Quadriceps in downward phase of a squat