29 Reasons Muscles are not a bore

(why muscles are not a bore) 29 Reasons 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. Muscle (~35%) BODY COMPOSITION 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 muscles to 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. Glycolytic flux (mM lactate/s) Rest Exercise (all-out) 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) • For more science songs, visit www.science-groove.org Images were borrowed from the following websites: www.artxpo.com/indv/bdagangallery www.btinternet.com/~edward.caution www.cartoonstock.com www.dustless.com www.evsc.k12.in.us www.utcc.ac.th