1. What is the largest muscle in your body?
Antagonist
What is the largest muscle in your body?

2. How many muscles are there in your quadriceps?
Gluteals
How many muscles are there in your quadriceps?

3. What does a synergist / fixator do?4
What does a synergist / fixator do?

4. Holds a joint in pace whilst other joints are moving
If flexion occurred at the elbow, which muscle would be your agonist?

5. An antagonistic pair works when one muscle contracts and another……
Biceps
An antagonistic pair works when one muscle contracts and another……

6. Your trapezius is situated across your……
Relaxes
Your trapezius is situated across your……

7. Shoulders
&
Neck
If you were standing on tip-toes, which muscles would be your prime movers?

8. What happens when a muscle undergoes a concentric contraction?
Gastrocnemius
&
Soleus
(calves)
What happens when a muscle undergoes a concentric contraction?

9. It gets shorter under tension
How many muscles are there in your hamstrings?

10. Muscles undergoing concentric contractions are called……3
Muscles undergoing concentric contractions are called……

11. Agonist Or
Prime mover
If your triceps are contracting eccentrically would you be performing the upward or downward phase of a bicep curl?

12. Muscles cross joints to enable what to occur?
Upward
Muscles cross joints to enable what to occur?

13. Muscles are connected to bones by……
Movement
Muscles are connected to bones by……

14. Which muscles would you use to perform a sit up?
Tendons
Which muscles would you use to perform a sit up?

15. Abdominals
What kind of contraction occurs when your muscles work but no movement occurs?

16. How many muscles do you have in your calves?
Isometric
(ie rugby scrum)
How many muscles do you have in your calves?

17. What are your chest muscles called?2
What are your chest muscles called?

18. If you were using your obliques, what movement would you be doing?
Pectorals
If you were using your obliques, what movement would you be doing?

19. Muscles always work in……
Side-bends
Muscles always work in……

20. Pairs
Which of the following would undergo an isometric contraction during movement
Agonist
Antagonist
Synergist?

21. What do your muscles need to contract?
Synergist
What do your muscles need to contract?

22. What muscle extends your leg at the knee joint?
Energy
What muscle extends your leg at the knee joint?

23. Quadriceps
Which muscles do you stretch by pulling your arm across your body with your other arm?

24. Deltoids
Your muscles can only work (by producing energy) for short periods of time without……

25. Oxygen
What is a tendon?

26. When muscles work with lots of oxygen they do so…?
Non-elastic tissue
When muscles work with lots of oxygen they do so…?

27. What is produced in your muscles during high intensity work?
Aerobically
What is produced in your muscles during high intensity work?

28. When muscles work without oxygen they do so…?
Lactic Acid
When muscles work without oxygen they do so…?

29. Overtraining can result in what type of muscle injury?
Anaerobically
Overtraining can result in what type of muscle injury?

30. What type of training would you do to make your muscles bigger?
Muscle Strain
What type of training would you do to make your muscles bigger?

31. As an athlete you would want your muscles to have good strength and…?
Weight Training
As an athlete you would want your muscles to have good strength and…?

32. Muscular Endurance
What food group would you need to eat to increase muscle size or to repair muscle tissue?

33. A muscle pair contains an agonist and an……?
Protein
A muscle pair contains an agonist and an……?