Other Fun Facts

Your skeletal muscles make up the general shape of your body.

Skeletal Muscles make up about 40% of your body's mass or weight.

Skeletal Muscles are voluntary muscles(muscles that you can control.) They are the muscles you think of when you hear the word, "muscles".

There are 3 types of muscles, skeletal, cardiac, and smooth. Cardiac and smooth are involuntary(you don't control them.)

Your nervous system sends signals from your brain to your muscles to tell them when to move.