Muscle Movements

Latissimus Dorsi

• Brings arm up and foreward

• Brings arms up to the side of the body

• Brings arms down and backwards

Sternocleidomastoid

• Turns head left, right, and down

• Extends/lifts up the head

• Bends your abdomen forward

• Straightens your leg at the knee

Deltoid

• Straightens leg at the hip (the standing up motion of a squat)

• Extends/straightens the arm

• Lifts arms up to the side of the body

• Brings arms foreward and together

Platysma

• Tenses skin of neck and pulls lower lip down

• Extends/lifts up head

• Lets you sit criss cross applesauce

• Puckers your lips

Pectoralis Major

• Moves arms down and backward

• Moves arms foreward and together

• Moves arms up to the side of the body

• muscle on the back of the body

Biceps Brachii

• Straightens the arm

• straightens the leg at the knee

• bends the leg at the knee

• Bends and rotates the forearm

Hamstrings

• Bends the leg at the knee

• Straightens the leg at the knee

• Straightens the leg at the hip

• Bends the arm

Gluteus Maximus

• Bends the leg at the knee

• Straightens the leg at the hip

• Lets you sit criss cross applecause

• Lets you point your toes

Gastrocnemuis

• Bends the leg at the knee

• Lets you point your toes

• tenses neck and pulls lower lip down

• bends you foreward

Rectus abdominis

• Bends you foreward

• Turns head left, right, and down

• extends/lifts up head

• straightens leg at the hip