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Such research can aid studies into life enhancement for those suffering from damage or disease affecting their nervous system. The SEMG signal is collected from the surface above the bicep muscle through dynamic (concentric and eccentric) contraction with various loads. In this paper, we use time domain features to analyze the relationship between the amplitude of SEMG signals and the load. We extract some features (e.g., mean absolute value, root mean square, variance and standard deviation) from the collected SEMG signals to estimate the bicep\u2019 muscle force for the various loads. Further, we use the R-squared value to depict the correlation between the SEMG amplitude and the muscle loads by linear fitting. The best performance the ANN model with 60 hidden neurons for three loads used (3 kg, 5 kg and 7 kg) has given a mean square error of 1.145, 1.3659 and 1.4238, respectively. 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