What are the different types of skeletal muscles ? In which basis the classification is done.

Explanation

The muscle fibres can be classified on the basis of their rate of shortening, either fast or slow and the way in which they produce the ATP needed for contraction, either oxidative or glycolytic. Fibres that contain numerous mitochondria and have a high capacity for oxidative phosphorylation are classified as oxidative fibres. The oxidative fibres are termed as red muscle fibres. Fibres that contain few mitochondria but possess a high concentration of glycolytic enzymes and large stores of glycogen are called glycolytic fibres. They are termed as white muscle fibres.