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Assessing the contraction potential of human muscleSkeletal muscle can generate approximat...

Assessing the contraction potential of human muscle

Skeletal muscle can generate approximately 3 to 4 kg of tension or force per square centimeter of cross-sectional area. This number is roughly the same for all mammals. Since many human muscles have large cross-sectional areas, the force that these muscles can (and must) generate is prodigious. The gluteus maximus (on which you are probably sitting as you read this) can generate a tension of 1200 kg! Estimate the cross-sectional areas of all of the muscles in your body and the total force that your skeletal muscles could generate if they all contracted at once.

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