This document summarizes the main types of muscles in the human body. It describes three main types: smooth muscles which line organs and provide motility for digestion; cardiac muscles which make up the heart and contract rhythmically; and skeletal muscles which are striated and allow voluntary movement when stimulated by the nervous system. The functional unit of skeletal muscle is the sarcomere, made up of overlapping thin and thick filaments that slide past each other to cause muscle contraction.