Muscle Contraction - ANSWER muscle generate force when they are activated
3 Types of muscles - ANSWER smooth, skeletal, cardiac
Skeletal muscle - ANSWER Allows us to run, jump, and throw things
Epimysium, perimysium, endomysium - ANSWER connective tissues help transmit force of the muscle ...
NSCA CPT Chapter 1 Questions &
Answers
Muscle Contraction - ANSWER muscle generate force when they are activated
3 Types of muscles - ANSWER smooth, skeletal, cardiac
Skeletal muscle - ANSWER Allows us to run, jump, and throw things
Epimysium, perimysium, endomysium - ANSWER connective tissues help transmit
force of the muscle action to bone
Fasciculus (fascicle) - ANSWER bundle of muscle fibers
Multinucleated (possess more than one nucleus) - ANSWER skeletal muscles
Sarcoplasm - ANSWER watery solution that contains cells energy source
Mitochondria - ANSWER site of aerobic ATP production within the cell
Action potentials - ANSWER electrical impulses
Muscle fiber - ANSWER cell that is specialized to contract and generate force (tension)
Myofibril - ANSWER columnar protein structures that run parallel to the length of the
muscle fiber
Myosin - ANSWER thick filament found in myofilaments
Actin - ANSWER thin filaments found in myofilaments
Sarcomere - ANSWER basic functional and contractile unit of the skeletal muscle
Neuromuscular junction - ANSWER in order to contract, muscle fibers must normally
receive a stimulus from the nervous system. The communication between the nervous
system and muscular system
Sliding Filament Theory - ANSWER Most widely accepted theory of muscle action
States that muscle shorten or lengthens when the filaments (myson/actin) slide past
each other
Types of muscle action - ANSWER Concentric
Eccentric
Isometric
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