Are you aware that you actually possess six senses
The sixth is a muscular sense responsible for direction your muscles
1. ______ intelligently -- to the exact extent
necessary for each action you perform. For
example, when you reach an object, the sensory
2. ______ nerves link the muscles to the brain stop your
hand at the collect 3. ______ spot. This automatic
perception of the position of your muscles
in relation to the object is your muscular sense in action.
Muscles various from
one five-thousandths of an inch to
4. ______ about three inches. They have three unique
characteristics: they can become shorter and
thicker, they can stretch; and they can
retract to their original positions. Under a high-power
5. ______ microscope,
muscle tissue is seen as long, slender cells with a
grainy texture as wood.
6.
______ More than half of a person’s body is composed of muscle
fibers, most of them
are involuntary -- in other words, work
7. ______ without conscious direction. The involuntary muscles,
those that 8. ______ we move consciously to
perform particular actions, numbering
9. ______ more than five hundred. Women have only 60 to 4 percent as
many muscle as men
for their body mass. That is why an
10. ______ average woman can’t lift as much,
throw as far, or hit as hard as an average man.