Muscle tissue accounts for roughly forty percent of mass

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Almost half of your total existence is completely dedicated solely to forceful contraction. You are fundamentally just a dense collection of specialized pulling fibers wrapped inconveniently around a rigid mineral frame.

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Muscle tissue accounts for roughly forty percent of mass — STACKY / Health

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Six hundred distinct muscles hold human forms together

Human mouth heavily relies on ten distinct muscle groups

Muscle fatigue is largely a psychological illusion created by your nervous system to prevent you from physically destroying your own tendons and fibers.

Skeletal muscles are biologically completely incapable of pushing anything, as they can only generate force by contracting and pulling bones like a complex system of organic levers and pulleys.

Lactic acid is fuel, not just workout burn

Rigor mortis rigidly locks muscles due to energy depletion

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