Workout Routines for Real Men

How do our muscles work? What is an antagonistic pair of muscles. How knowledge about it will help you reach your fitness goals and make your workout better? We will all find answers to those questions in the next lines.

There are more than 600 muscles in our body. I am not going to talk about them all but only for these we use everyday and most people think of when we say muscles – Skeletal muscles. They are voluntary muscles, which means you can control what they do. Together the skeletal muscles work with your bones to give your body power and strength. Skeletal muscles are held to the bones with the help of tendons .

Tendons are cords made of tough tissue, and they work as special connector pieces between bone and muscle. The tendons are attached so well, that when you contract one of your muscles the tendon and the bone move along with it. Muscles are normally arranged in opposition so that as one group of muscles contract another group relaxes or lengthens.

Antagonistic pairs of muscles are muscle where one move the bone in one direction and the other moves it back the other way in transmission of nerve impulses to the muscles. That means that it is impossible to fully stimulate the contraction of two antagonistic muscles at the same time.