BTEC Sport LEVEL 3

What are the 3 muscle types? - skeletal, smooth, cardiac Characteristics of skeletal muscle - voluntary, striated, can fatigue Characteristics of smooth muscle - Involuntary, controlled by nervous system, no stripes Characteristics of cardiac muscle - found only in the heart, striated, involuntary, own blood supple Example of where you can find skeletal muscle - Deltoid Example of where you can find smooth muscle - Stomach (digestive system) What is the origin? - End of muscle attached to immovable bone What is insertion? - End of muscle attached to movable bone What is action? - Movement that is made when muscle contracts What is the location of the triceps? - Outside upper arm What is the location of the Deltoids? - Shoulder What is the location of the pectorals? - Chest What is the location of the biceps? - Top upper arm What is the location of the wrist flexors? - Inside wrist What is the location of the wrist extensors? - Outside wrist What is the location of the supinators? - Inner elbow What is the location of the pronators? - Inner elbow What is the location of the abdominals? - Stomach What is the location of the hip flexors? - Lumbar region of thigh What is the location of the quadriceps? - Front thigh What is the location of the hamstrings? - Back thigh What is the location of the gastrocnemius? - Calf What is the location of the soleus? - Back of calf What is the location of the tibialis anterior? - Outside shin What is the location of the erector spinae? - Centre of back What is the location of the teres major? - Between scapula and humerus What is the location of the latissimus dorsi? - Centre at side back