Three Kinds of Muscle · Muscles
The kind you command — striped, strong, and quick to tire.
This is the muscle you think of as muscle: attached to bones, under your conscious control, and the only kind that does what you tell it. Flex your hand and you're using it right now.
Under a microscope it's striped — regular bands running across every fibre, which is why it's also called striated muscle. Those stripes are the contracting machinery lined up in perfect rows, and you'll meet them properly in the next lesson.
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