Question

What are antagonistic muscles give one example

Answer 1

Answer:

antagonistic muscles are those which work opposite to each other.Eg- biceps and triceps

Answer 2

Antagonistic Muscle:-

Antagonistic muscles are those muscles that produce movements in an antagonistic pair of muscles by opposing the movement of the agonistic muscle .i.e. when one contracts the other relaxes and vice versa.

Go ahead and make an arm curl to see how big your biceps, or upper arm muscle, is.

While you are squeezing and contracting your biceps muscle to flex your arm, the biceps is carrying out the main movement, and so it is the agonist's muscle. There's another muscle on the underside of your upper arm, called the triceps, or lower arm muscle. The triceps, in this case, is the antagonist muscle, relaxing and providing movement control while the biceps do the main contraction and movement. An antagonist muscle, just like the antagonist in a novel, works opposite to the main character, which in this case is the agonist muscle that undertakes the main action of movement.

Example- biceps and triceps, quadriceps and hamstrings.