In principle that´s what all training is about. More or less every physical activity performed on a certain level puts effort on our muscles. We have more than 600 of them waiting to be activated. Muscle are categorized in three different types:

A muscle is made of a lot of muscle cells, so called called muscle fibers. They are called fibers because of their size. A single cell or fiber has a diameter of 0,1mm and a lenght up to 30cm. Many fibers are wrapped together to bundles called fascicles. The fascicles itself are also bound together to make up the muscle.

Muscle fibers can be separated into two types, depending on their attributes.

The type II fibers are subdivided into three categories with contractile speeds situated between type I and type II. Basically it´s enough to know the main fibers.
The red and white color is caused by the amount of capillaries inside the muscle. Red muscles carry more blood than white ones. That´s why certain animals have red and others have white meat.
Every muscle owns fibers of each type. The arrangement is based on your genetics and the muscle´s function.

Let´s have a closer look at the main skeletal muscles, because they are interesting for training purpose. It makes little sense to know all of them. The following table names the most important muscles, their anatomical and common names and most evident function.
The names already tell a lot about muscles. Most of them are not just one piece of muscle, but constist of other muscles, so called heads. The Quadriceps consists of four (=quad) heads, Triceps of course three (=tri ) and Biceps (bi=two).
Heads are attached to the bones through tendons, wich enables us to move our joint(s) included and therefore to move our body.