Sentence examples for muscles were stretched from inspiring English sources

Dean's face was turning purple and his neck muscles were stretched tight.

He did not have any dialogue in the film and the actor's acting muscles were stretched as he had to use body language and facial expressions to convey his feelings and thoughts, with Vikram also applying the make up for the character himself.

After 60 min of equilibration, the muscles were stretched gradually to the length at which maximum steady-state twitch force was reached (Lmax).

The core muscles were stretched during the overhead side and seated trunk stretches; and the elbow extensors were stretched during the back scratch stretch.

After an equilibration period of 30 min, muscles were stretched in 0.05 mm increments until additional stretch did not produce an increase in developed force.

At both time points, muscles were stretched to 3.0 mN/mm resting tension and the force development was allowed to reach steady state before the frequency protocol was initiated.

Uriona believes that the muscles were stretching the lungs to transfer more air to the rear of the gator, thereby making the front heavier.

'It's like a sprain in your neck.' The sprain happens because the head snaps back and forth very quickly when the car crashes - like a whip - so the neck muscles are stretched massively before they quickly contract again.

When the tongue is maximally projected, the retractor muscles are stretched; because contraction of these muscles takes place at the same time as the protractor muscles are contracted, the tongue is rapidly returned to the mouth.

Interestingly, O'Neil et al have shown that when mouse EDL muscles are stretched ex vivo for 60 minutes, mTORC1 is activated in a wortmannin insensitive manner [50], whereas Sakamoto et al. [49], demonstrated that the activation of PKB by endurance exercise is wortmannin sensitive.

On maximum inhalation, the diaphragma thoracolumbale contracts and compresses the viscerum [ 1], the abdomen is enlarged, and the abdominal muscles are stretched and therefore get thinner [ 12].