Actin and myoglobulin are the compositions building muscles' stretching function. Microtubulin is the basic substance which provides the flagellum and cilium the function of movement.
Then comes a brief period of contraction, when the myosin heads are binding, and pulling, and releasing, over and over, and the muscle fibers contract.
They're divided lengthwise into segments called sarcomeres, which contain two even tinier strands of protein — two different kinds of myofilaments called actin and myosin.
A sarcomere contains both thin filaments, made up mostly of two light and twisty actin strands, and thick filaments, composed of thicker, lumpy-looking myosin strands.
That tension means myosin and the calcium pumps are burning up the muscle cells' ATP, and the finite supply of ATP is what makes it impossible to maintain vigorous muscle activity indefinitely.
But soon the fiber slides back down into the relaxation period, when the calcium gets pumped back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum, and the actin and myosin stop the binding cycle, and the muscle relaxes.
We've learned a lot about skeletal muscle tissue — how it's striated, and contracts using the actin-myosin sliding filament dance you've heard so much about.
If another action potential travels down before that can happen, even more calcium gets released, which ends up exposing more actin for myosin to bind to, and that means more force in that fiber.
You'd also re-learn that your skeletal muscles are constructed like a rope made of bundles of protein fibers, and that the smallest strands are your actin and myosin myofilaments.