Transcript triceps muscle

Type of Muscles
• Skeletal
• Cardiac
• Smooth
Skeletal Muscle
• Move your bones
• Voluntary (you can control them)
• Over 400 skeletal muscles in your body
Cardiac Muscle
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The muscle of the heart
Involuntary (you can not control them)
Works 24 hours a day, every day of your life!!!
Strongest type of muscle
Smooth Muscle
• Muscles of the esophagus, stomach,
intestines, and other internal organs
• Involuntary (you cannot control them)
• Contract slowly and smoothly
• Can remain contracted for long periods of
time
Anatomy of a Muscle
Attachment
• Tendon attaches muscle to bone
Abdominals
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Strengthening Exercises: Crunches, Leg Raises, Plank
Location: Cover the stomach
Function: Bend forward at the waist
Importance: Prevent injury to the back and
internal organs
Biceps
• Strengthening Exercises: Dumbbell bicep curls,
seated row, push ups
• Location: Front, top half of the arm
• Function: Bend the elbow
• Importance: To carry things-groceries, books; to
water ski or row a boat
Deltoids
• Strengthening Exercises: Stretch band lateral raises,
arm circles, shoulder press
• Location: Shoulder
• Function: Moves upper arm
• Importance: To throw a ball, do cartwheels, paint
the house, or hang a picture
Gastrocnemius
• Strengthening Exercises: Agility Rings bunny jumps,
lunges, heel raises, wall jumps
• Location: Back of lower leg
• Function: To point the toes
• Importance: To jump, climb stairs or walk up hills
Gluteals
• Strengthening Exercises: Dumbbell lunges, agility
rings bunny jumps, hamstrings curl
• Location: Buttocks
• Function: Moves thigh backwards
• Importance: To jump, climb stairs or walk up hills
Hamstrings
• Strengthening Exercises: Dumbbell lunges, agility
rings bunny jumps, lunges, hamstrings curl,
hamstring lifts
• Location: Back of the upper leg
• Function: Bend the knee
• Importance: To walk and run
Lattissimus Dorsi
• Strengthening Exercises: Medicine ball twister,
stretch band seated row, pull ups, overhead throw,
plank
• Location: On the back (middle)
• Function: Allows a person to pull
• Importance: To ski, climb a tree or do a pull-up
Pectorals
• Strengthening Exercises: Medicine ball wall chest
pass, push ups, bench press
• Location: Chest
• Function: Help a person push
• Importance: To push away, to push a lawn mower or
shopping cart, play tennis
Quadriceps
• Strengthening Exercises: Dumbbell lunges, agility
rings bunny jumps, squats, squat thrusts
• Location: Front part of upper leg
• Function: Straighten the knee
• Importance: To walk, run, kick
Trapezius
• Strengthening Exercises: Stretch band seated row,
dumbbell shoulder shrugs
• Location: Upper and mid back
• Function: Pulls arms in and raises the shoulders
• Importance: To lift and object and pull something
close to the body
Triceps
• Strengthening Exercises: Stretch band triceps
extension, triceps dips, bench press
• Location: Back of the upper arm
• Function: Straighten the elbow
• Importance: To throw a ball, push away from table,