Muscle Facts

Taking a single step involves coordinating around 200 muscle activations across approximately 20-30 major muscle groups in your legs, core, and hips.

A passionate kiss can burn 2-3 calories per minute and engages up to 34 facial muscles.

You lose muscle slower than you gain it - taking a few weeks off from the gym won't erase months of progress thanks to 'muscle memory' at the cellular level.

An elephant's trunk has no bones but contains around 40,000 muscles.

Drinking watermelon juice before a workout helps reduce muscle soreness.

Only 10-22% of people can voluntarily wiggle their ears, making it one of the rarest facial movements humans can perform.

Thanks to muscle memory, strength and muscle lost during a break from exercise can be regained much faster than it took to build originally.

The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.

If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you could lift nearly 25 tons.