2. Warm Up Apr. 4 What is largest muscle in body?
Two bones of appendicular?
Where is cardiac muscle found?

3. Warm Up Mar. 31 What are three muscles of the trunk?
What muscle is working during a pull up?
What muscle performs a sit up?

4. Warm Up Apr. 3 Two muscles found in arm. Three muscles in trunk.
Two muscles in leg.

5. Warm up Apr. 1 What muscle flexes the arm?
What muscle extends the arm?
What muscle flexes the fingers?

6. Muscles of the Arms and Legs
Appendicular Muscles
Muscles
of the
Arms and Legs

7. Vocabulary Bicep Brachii Tricep Brachii Flexor and Extensor Digitorum
Gluteus Maximus
Quadriceps
Hamstrings
Tibialis Anterior
Gastrocnemius

8. Biceps Brachii
Flexes forearm at elbow and supinates forearm (hands up or forward)
Muscle used to “make a muscle”

9. Triceps Brachii Posterior surface of upper arm
Extends forearm at elbow
“Boxer’s muscle”

10. Flexor & Extensor Digitorum
Anterior and posterior forearm to fingers
Flexes and extends fingers (and toes)

11. Warm Up Apr. 2 Muscle that extends leg Muscle that flexes leg?
Tip Toe muscle.

12. Muscles of the Legs Muscles That Move the Thigh
Muscles That Move the Leg
Muscles That Move the Ankle and Foot

13. Muscles that Move the Thigh

14. Gluteus Maximus Largest and most superficial of the gluteal muscles
Forms the buttocks
Extends the thigh
Muscle for sitting and climbing stairs

15. Quadriceps Femoris
Located on the anterior and lateral surface of thigh
Used to extend the leg (kicking)
Commonly known as “quads”

16. Hamstrings
Located on posterior surface of thigh
Flexes leg at knee

17. Muscles that Move the Ankle and Foot

18. Tibialis Anterior
Anterior leg
(moves foot up)
(moves foot in)

19. Gastrocnemius Posterior surface of leg
Large two-headed muscle that forms the calf
“Tip-toe” muscle