Thursday, November 15, 2012

Simple Machines in your body

Did you know that your body is a simple machine? You have levers All over your body and you may not even realize it. The main levers are your elbows and your knees along with the muscles attached to them.
Your forearm is an example of natural way of motion rather than force. The biceps is a muscle that flexes the arm. Tendons attach this muscle close to the elbow. So when the biceps squeeze the arm goes up and when they relax the arm goes down.
There is a picture below that showed the are and it's muscles.
Your knees are also like this in a way. Your thigh muscles or quadriceps are attached to the shin bone or tibia just below the knee joint.The muscle generates movement by shortening and pulling on a bone. Even though this picture below of the person that is on a machine. It still shows the extension of the muscles that can get a task done, and this task was to lift the weight.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

From the inside out

The things that you don't know about. Your body. How do you even start on this topic, there are many things that you may not know about your body. I'm going to tell you fun facts about your body. The things you didn't know or think about. Like how much energy do M&M's have.  Or about how your body is like a machine. If you would like to learn more keep following my blog.