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You're dreaming and your muscles are paralyzed, only your brain is conscious and wide awake.
Inside us are over 360 joints, and about 700 skeletal muscles that enable easy, fluid motion.
Joints, muscles and ligaments that are attached to the bones hold it all together.
Over time, this causes wear and tear in your spinal discs, overworks certain ligaments and joints, and puts strain on muscles that stretch to accommodate your back's curved position.
Around the skeleton are the muscles, nerves, arteries and veins that form the body's soft tissue layers.
It has to coordinate more or less 200 muscles perfectly, because if the coordination is bad, we fall over or we do bad locomotion.
It just has to worry about this high-level modulation, and it's really the job of the spinal cord to coordinate all the muscles.
Most of the muscles are in the trunk, which is a good idea, because then the limbs have low inertia and can be moved very rapidly.
If your posture isn't optimal, your muscles have to work harder to keep you upright and balanced.
Some muscles will become tight and inflexbile.
The other curves usually develop by 12-18 months as the muscles strengthen.
Keeping your muscles and joints moving is extremely important.
Using your muscles will keep them strong enough to support you effectively, on top of all the other benefits to your joints, bones, brain and heart.
And whether or not body building is your hobby, muscles need your constant attention because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow.
Your brain and muscles are perfectly poised to help you achieve this goal.
When they receive this message, they fire, causing muscles to contract and relax, which pull on the bones in your arm and generate the needed movement.
At this point, your arm muscles alone won't be able to generate enough tension to pull it open, so your brain appeals to other muscles for help.
Your nervous system has just leveraged the resources you already have, other muscles, to meet the demand.
The resulting cycle of damage and repair eventually makes muscles bigger and stronger as they adapt to progressively greater demands.
In fact, if you don't continuously expose your muscles to some resistance, they will shrink, a process known as muscular atrophy.
However, muscles rely on more than just activity to grow.
If you tear your muscles up, eat right, rest and repeat, you'll create the conditions to make your muscles as big and strong as possible.
It is with muscles as it is with life: Meaningful growth requires challenge and stress.
When you see the apple, your brain's motor center activates the appropriate muscles, allowing you to reach out with your arm, grab it with your hand, bend your elbow joint, and bring it to your mouth.
Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite.
The hypothalamus sends signals that instruct your muscles to contract and causes a rise in body temperature.
But how do you sense your bladder's fullness so you know when to pee? Inside the layers of detrusor muscles are millions of stretch receptors that get triggered as the bladder fills.
The external urethral sphincter is one of the muscles of the pelvic floor, and it provides support to the urethra and bladder neck.
It's lucky we have these pelvic floor muscles because placing pressure on the system by coughing, sneezing, laughing, or jumping could cause bladder leakage.
Instead, the pelvic floor muscles keep the region sealed until you're ready to go.
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