Arbeitsmuskulatur

English translation: Skeletal muscles

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German term or phrase:Arbeitsmuskulatur
English translation:Skeletal muscles
Entered by: Julia Michel

09:45 Aug 22, 2008
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / Anatomie
German term or phrase: Arbeitsmuskulatur
This is from a fitness studio's website. They offer roller massage, and among other wonderful things, it is meant to help loosen your Arbeitsmuskulatur. The proper English term currently eludes me...

Thanks in advance for your help!
Julia Michel
Germany
Local time: 18:56
Skeletal muscles
Explanation:
Ich halte von dem Begriff "Abeitsmuskulatur" nicht viel. er wird z.B. in der Kardiologie verwendet:

Ultrastruktur der Purkinje-Fasern und der subendokardialen Arbeitsmuskulatur in explantierten Herzen mit dilatativer Kardiomyopathie oder ischämischer ...
www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/1634/ - 8k

Und die wird wahrscheinlich während der Massage kaum gelockert. Ich den ke erher es handelt sich hier um ein "Lifestyle"-Synonym for "Skelettmuskulatur", die einer Massage schon eher zugänglich ist.

Muscle Types
Muscle tissue consists of fibers (cells) that are highly specialized for the active generation of force for contraction. Because of this characteristic, muscle tissue provides motion, maintenance of posture, and heat production. Based on certain structural and functional characteristics, muscle tissue is classified into three types: cardiac, smooth and skeletal.
Cardiac
Cardiac muscle tissue forms the bulk of the wall of the heart. Like skeletal muscle tissue, it is striated (the muscle fibers contain alternating light and dark bands (striations) that are perpendicular to the long axes of the fibers). Unlike skeletal muscle tissue, its contraction is usually not under conscious control (involuntary).
Smooth
Smooth muscle tissue is located in the walls of hollow internal structures such as blood vessels, the stomach, intestines, and urinary bladder. Smooth muscle fibers are usually involuntary, and they are nonstriated (smooth). Smooth muscle tissue, like skeletal and cardiac muscle tissue, can undergo hypertrophy. In addition, certain smooth muscle fibres, such as those in the uterus, retain their capacity for division and can grow by hyperplasia.
Skeletal
Skeletal muscle tissue is named for its location - attached to bones. It is striated; that is, the fibers (cells) contain alternating light and dark bands (striations) that are perpendicular to the long axes of the fibers. Skeletal muscle tissue can be made to contract or relax by conscious control (voluntary).
All skeletal muscle fibres are not alike in structure or function. For example, skeletal muscle fibres vary in colour depending on their content of myoglobin (myoglobin stores oxygen until needed by the mitochondria). Skeletal muscle fibres contract with different velocities, depending on their ability to split. Faster contracting fibres have greater ability to split ATP. In addition, skeletal muscle fibres vary with respect to the metabolic processes they use to generate ATP. They also differ in terms of the onset of fatigue. Based on various structural and functional characteristics, skeletal muscle fibres are classified into three types: Type I fibres, Type II B fibres and type II A fibres.
http://www.brianmac.co.uk/muscle.htm

If physical therapy is used to stretch and strengthen skeletal muscles, massage will be a safe, indicated choice. The only caution is that people with very ...
en.allexperts.com/q/Massage-1818/contraindications-cerebral-palsy.htm - 18k
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Siegfried Armbruster
Germany
Local time: 18:56
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Thanks much, very detailed and well-funded answer!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4Skeletal muscles
Siegfried Armbruster
3 +3working muscles
Anne Schulz
3 +2working muscles
EC Translate
4exercising muscle (group)
analytical (X)


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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
exercising muscle (group)


Explanation:
Will this be of help?
Worterbuch Der Bildgebenden Verfahren/Dictionary of Medical Imaging:
http://books.google.com/books?id=HiAdBQV1qfQC&pg=PT29&lpg=PT...

"The “glycogen shunt” in exercising muscle: A role for glycogen in muscle energetics and fatigue. Stimulated by recent 13C and 31P NMR studies of exercising muscle, we propose a model of the energetics of contraction. '
http://www.pnas.org/content/98/2/457.full?ck=nck


analytical (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 18:56
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Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish
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31 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Skeletal muscles


Explanation:
Ich halte von dem Begriff "Abeitsmuskulatur" nicht viel. er wird z.B. in der Kardiologie verwendet:

Ultrastruktur der Purkinje-Fasern und der subendokardialen Arbeitsmuskulatur in explantierten Herzen mit dilatativer Kardiomyopathie oder ischämischer ...
www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/1634/ - 8k

Und die wird wahrscheinlich während der Massage kaum gelockert. Ich den ke erher es handelt sich hier um ein "Lifestyle"-Synonym for "Skelettmuskulatur", die einer Massage schon eher zugänglich ist.

Muscle Types
Muscle tissue consists of fibers (cells) that are highly specialized for the active generation of force for contraction. Because of this characteristic, muscle tissue provides motion, maintenance of posture, and heat production. Based on certain structural and functional characteristics, muscle tissue is classified into three types: cardiac, smooth and skeletal.
Cardiac
Cardiac muscle tissue forms the bulk of the wall of the heart. Like skeletal muscle tissue, it is striated (the muscle fibers contain alternating light and dark bands (striations) that are perpendicular to the long axes of the fibers). Unlike skeletal muscle tissue, its contraction is usually not under conscious control (involuntary).
Smooth
Smooth muscle tissue is located in the walls of hollow internal structures such as blood vessels, the stomach, intestines, and urinary bladder. Smooth muscle fibers are usually involuntary, and they are nonstriated (smooth). Smooth muscle tissue, like skeletal and cardiac muscle tissue, can undergo hypertrophy. In addition, certain smooth muscle fibres, such as those in the uterus, retain their capacity for division and can grow by hyperplasia.
Skeletal
Skeletal muscle tissue is named for its location - attached to bones. It is striated; that is, the fibers (cells) contain alternating light and dark bands (striations) that are perpendicular to the long axes of the fibers. Skeletal muscle tissue can be made to contract or relax by conscious control (voluntary).
All skeletal muscle fibres are not alike in structure or function. For example, skeletal muscle fibres vary in colour depending on their content of myoglobin (myoglobin stores oxygen until needed by the mitochondria). Skeletal muscle fibres contract with different velocities, depending on their ability to split. Faster contracting fibres have greater ability to split ATP. In addition, skeletal muscle fibres vary with respect to the metabolic processes they use to generate ATP. They also differ in terms of the onset of fatigue. Based on various structural and functional characteristics, skeletal muscle fibres are classified into three types: Type I fibres, Type II B fibres and type II A fibres.
http://www.brianmac.co.uk/muscle.htm

If physical therapy is used to stretch and strengthen skeletal muscles, massage will be a safe, indicated choice. The only caution is that people with very ...
en.allexperts.com/q/Massage-1818/contraindications-cerebral-palsy.htm - 18k

Siegfried Armbruster
Germany
Local time: 18:56
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Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 766
Grading comment
Thanks much, very detailed and well-funded answer!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Armorel Young: good suggestion for a rather strange term
32 mins

agree  Anne Schulz: Ich dachte auch zuerst, da hätte jemand einen tiefen Griff in die Kiste mit Pseudowissen getan, aber der Begriff scheint lt Google im Sport-/Fitnessbereich gar nicht so unüblich zu sein. Trotzdem würde ich (mit dir) einfach "(Skelett-)Muskeln" sagen.
49 mins

agree  analytical (X): with Armorel and Anne! Or maybe just '...help loosen your muscles'.
1 hr

neutral  Alan Wiser, MD: While the muscles involved are "skeletal" musclcs, the implication here is clearly the "working muscles." One would not do this type of massage on "cardiac" or "smooth" muscles!
2 hrs
  -> When I studied, it was still valid that "cardiac" or "smooth" muscles, are NOT "skeletal muscles.

neutral  Cetacea: You're absolutely right, of course, but I think "skeletal muscles" might not sound so good to the average fitness studio client's ears...
3 hrs
  -> Danke, ich bin da leider etwas altmodisch, nur weil der Begriff in der Fitnessszene benutzt wird, wird er ja nicht besser, oder wie jemand mir am Anfang meiner Proz-Karriere gesagt hat, 25.000 Google Hits beweisen nur wieviel I***ten es gibt.

agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): "Lifestyle"-Synonym scheint mir hier ebenso zutreffend, wie deine gesamte Antwort!!
5 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
working muscles


Explanation:
scheint es direkt so auch im Englischen fit-speak zu geben. Bleibt trotzdem die Frage, ob man nicht einfach mit "your muscles" auskäme...




    Reference: http://www.criticalbench.com/stretching_scientifically.htm
Anne Schulz
Germany
Local time: 18:56
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Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 1611

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alan Wiser, MD
2 hrs

agree  Cetacea: In this context, yes--to both suggestions.
2 hrs

neutral  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): ...viele Referenzen scheinen "working" als Verb zu verwenden...
5 hrs

agree  Siegfried Armbruster: Die Option "Bleibt trotzdem die Frage, ob man nicht einfach mit "your muscles" auskäme" würde ich sofort unterstützen
6 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
working muscles


Explanation:
Google "Working muscles" + fitness - More than 80,000 hits.

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Note added at 1 hr (2008-08-22 11:10:13 GMT)
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With "working muscles" + physical you get 40,000 + hits.
With "working muscles" + fitness studio you get 500 hits.

Ex: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_1_61/ai_n1576...

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Note added at 1 hr (2008-08-22 11:13:12 GMT)
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Some of these refer to verb + noun, whereas others refer to the full noun :o)

Example sentence(s):
  • No time to eat, no fuel for those working muscles.
EC Translate
Norway
Local time: 18:56
Meets criteria
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alan Wiser, MD
2 hrs
  -> Thank you very much:o)

agree  Cetacea
2 hrs
  -> Thank you very much:o)

neutral  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): ...viele Referenzen scheinen "working" als Verb zu verwenden...
4 hrs
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