Biochemistry
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Author: Reginald H. Garrett; Charles M. Grisham
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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The cross sectional area of all of the muscles in the body and total force that your skeletal muscles could generate if they all contracted at once should be estimated.
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Skeletal muscles can generate a tension between three to four per square centimeter of cross sectional area. The gluteus maximus can generate a tension of
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