Body Atlas

From Thought to Movement · Muscles

How does my body decide how much muscle to use?

Small units first, big ones only when needed.

The simple answer

Pick up a pencil and your body switches on its smallest motor units. Pick up a suitcase and it keeps adding larger ones until the job is covered. It always starts small — and that ordering is automatic.

Go deeper

There's more: small units first, big ones only when needed. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.

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