Our muscles help move us around. They help us digest food and they make your heart beat. When most people think of muscles, they think of their skeletal muscles, but in fact we have lots of other muscles that work within our bodies without us even knowing it.
Here is a quick quiz. We've assigned the names to some of the major muscles on the character below. Do you know the names of all of his muscles?
How did you do? Did you get them all right? You might have called some of the muscles by different names. We have included the names for many of the rest of our muscles in the diagram below.
Take a look at the following video cartoon. It gives a great visual overview on our muscular system. The video is made possible by 360Kid productions
