MUSCULAR SYSTEM

By: DJ Frazier and Jeffery Jackson

What are the 3 types of muscle, and how do they work

Your muscular system is an important organ system consisting of skeletal , smooth , and cardiac muscle.

• Skeletal muscle: Produces movement, maintains posture, stabilizes joints and generates heat.

• Smooth muscle: Found in the walls of hollow organs

• Cardiac muscle: Exist only in your heart

• Your Skeletal muscles cover you skeleton, giving your body its shape

• Your Smooth muscles are found in hollow walls of your organs like your intestines or stomach

• Your Cardiac muscles are found in your heart and are the only type of muscle in your heart also the only one that doesn't get tired

Diagram of major muscles in the body

What it looks like when biceps or triceps contract

How the Muscular system works with other systems

Like most systems in the body the muscular does not work in isolation.The most obvious system that interact with muscular system are skeletal system, and the nervous system, and the circulatory system. Muscles are also involved in the digestive system, the respiratory system and the immune system

Did you know

• Muscles make up 40% of your total weight• To take one step you use 200 muscles• It takes half as long to gain weight as it does to lose it

Fun Facts

• There are muscles in the root of your hair that give you goose bumps

• It takes 17 muscles to smile and 42 to frown• The hardest 2 working muscles are the eye and tongue • The largest muscle in your body is the gluteus

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