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The Types Of Muscle Muscles

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Our skeletal muscle is what generates all of our force to create strength and allow us to move. The three types of muscle contractions are concentric, eccentric, and isometric. In every contraction, the actin and myosin are interacting in the sarcomere to pull the fibers and contract the muscle. The sliding filament theory states that the myosin is actually staying in place, and the actin is contracting together and lengthening apart to create the length-tension relationship. For every contraction to happen, it needs to get energy from somewhere in the body. This can happen either through glycolysis or oxidative phosphorylation. While glycolysis can produce ATP faster, oxidative phosphorylation can produce more ATP over a longer period of time to last for a longer amount of time. When you are training in anything, you are training your body to change the way you want it to for what you are trying to accomplish. In modern dance we want our bodies to be able to remain energetic through long performances and be able to do the demanding things we ask it to. To be able to do that a few changes need to occur in the body. The body starts to deviate from normal physiology by increasing the oxygen consumption and working on increasing the VO2 max. When you increase the amount of oxygen that is delivered to and used by your muscles you are simultaneously decreasing the amount of hydrogen ions that have accumulated in the muscle fibers. Decreasing this accumulation is good because

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