29 Reasons(why muscles are not a bore)

Boring? BORING?!?!Muscles aren’t

boring!!!

I’ve got 29 reasons why muscles are not a bore…

When applying for grants, I can find about 2 or 3 more.

If you check out a standard lass,Muscles are a third of her body mass.

BODY COMPOSITION

Muscle(~35%)

Reasons why muscles are not a bore

(1)Quantitatively important tissue (large fraction of total body mass)

From cooking your food to sweeping the floor,Muscles do a really wide range of chores.

[Using one’s musclesto cook animal muscles!]

You could be out shopping or starting to groove,But muscles are behind your every move.

[So how do SKELETONS dance???]

Reasons why muscles are not a bore

(1)Quantitatively important tissue (large fraction of total body mass)

(2)Perform a wide range of physiological tasks

(3)Required for any kind of movement

[Keyboard solo… Use those hand muscles!]

When a muscle is used at a sporting event,Its fluxes rise 5000 percent.

Rest Exercise(all-out)

Glycolytic flux(mM lactate/s)

And if you’re getting fit or you have a disease,Muscle adaptation can be quantified with ease.

Muscle adaptations to endurance training

Capillary density

Glycogen concentration

Mitochondrial volume

Myoglobin concentration

Reasons why muscles are not a bore

(1)Quantitatively important tissue (large fraction of total body mass)

(2)Perform a wide range of physiological tasks

(3)Required for any kind of movement

(4)Intracellular metabolic fluxes can change by a factor of 50 within seconds

(5)Exhibit major adaptations to training and disease

And so on and so forth…

“29 Reasons”

• Music by Willie Dixon; Lyrics by Greg Crowther

• Performed by Science Groove:Greg Crowther (lead vocals, keyboard)Lori DeGloria (vocals)Adam Ludwig (vocals)Do Peterson (vocals, guitar, drum programming)Kirk L. Van Scoyoc (vocals)

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