Muscle Resources
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ousflrOzQHc&feature=youtu.be
Muscle Contraction - McGraw Hill Animations
4:24 minute video
Excellent animation and explanation of the molecular events that make a skeletal muscle contraction possible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtm40Z3sXrk
Animation of the origins, insertion and action of the deltoid muscle

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html
Here you will find a directory of muscles.
If you click on the name of a mucle listed here you will be taken to a picture of that muscle
The pictures look like simplified copies of drawings from Gray's anatomy
and they show only a part of the muscle while the origin and insertion are generally hidden behind surrounding muscles.
However it does include helpful text about origins, insertions, and actions

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/GrossAnatomy/dissector/muscles/muscles.html
Loyola University Medical Education Network
Here you will find a huge list of muscles arranged alphabetically.
When you click on the name of any muscle you will see a picture of that muscle surrounded by information about its Origin, Insertion, Action, and Nerve supply.

http://www.getbodysmart.com/ap/muscles/musclesystem.html
Here you can find pictures of muscles that are superimposed on eachother in layers that you can peel away one at a time and add back one at a time.
Also there are animations for some of the muscles
showing the actions they enable a person to perform.

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