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Why do people breath harder and the heart beats faster the more you exercise?
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∙ 12y ago
Our bodies burn fuel much like a car does. When you press on the gas, more fuel and air is sucked into the engine and combusted to produce more horsepower. When we exercise it is like we are pushing down on our own accelerator pedal that pumps more sugar and oxygen into our muscles to produce more power. Our heart rate and breathing increases to allow us to burn more of our fuel which, instead of gas, is adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
The science is that when we exercise our muscles need more energy and oxygen to move and so we need to breathe more air. Then the air goes down the trachea, through the bronchi and bronchioles and finally into air sacs called alveoli where the oxygen is diffused through the thin walls of blood vessels called capillaries. At the same time carbon dioxide is diffused through the wall from the blood vessel to the air sac and back out the same way the oxygen came in. Then the oxygen is transported around the body through the blood vessels and into the muscles.Then the deoxygenated blood goes to the heart and lungs to become oxygenated. This supplies oxygen to all the body tissues. As more energy is needed in the muscles more oxygen is needed in the blood so respiration increases.
When you exercise, your muscles need more oxygen and fuel to continue working. Your heart rate then increases to get more fuel and oxygen to them more quickly. Depending on how hard you are exercising, your heart will speed up accordingly to give your muscles the power to keep going.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 9y agoYour resting cardiac out put is about five liters per minute. During the exercise the cardiac out put increases from five liters to more than twenty five liters per minute. Muscles get about twenty liters of blood per minute. The heart has to beat faster to provide this extra blood. You breath at faster rate to provide the extra oxygen, that is needed for the metabolism of the muscles.
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∙ 9y agoIf your body needs more oxygen, there is really only way to get it - breathe more. And since breathing deeper doesn't really do that much, breathing faster is pretty much the only thing left.
Unless you'd have a bottle of pure oxygen at hand, to breathe in air that has more oxygen in it instead.
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∙ 12y agoWhen you exercise, your body uses up more oxygen. To counter act this, your body forces you to breath harder, so that you take more oxygen in, and makes your heart beat faster, to get higher amounts of oxygen to your muscles faster.
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∙ 11y agoYour muscles use a lot of energy when running. This produces substantial amounts of carbon dioxide which raises your bloods acidity. Elevated blood acidity signals your medulla to increase your respiratory rate along with your heart rate to increase to blood flow to the lungs to expel the carbon dioxide and restore normal blood pH, around 7.4
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∙ 10y agoThis happens because immediately when you do some intense works like exercise, climbing stairs quickly etc., our body activates the sympathetic nervous system by some hormone release(like testosterone,adrenaline) which activates catabolism( breakdown of tissues).This involves redistribution of blood to important site of muscle work like limbs and core from digestive system and excretary system and increased blood supply.And our heart rate is directly proportional with the intensity of the work, inversely proportional to the stroke volume and VO2 max. level and inversely proportional with our fitness level.
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∙ 9y agoYou need more oxygen and nutrition during exercise. These requirements are fulfilled by faster heart beats and deeper respiration. Faster heart beats supply more blood and deeper respiration gives you more oxygen.
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∙ 13y agoBecause as you exercise your body needs more oxygen, and the way to get more oxy is to breathe faster.
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∙ 11y agobecause your heart smells like soggy smelly wet willy
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Parts of your body, especially your muscles, require much more oxygen during exercise, which reaches them via your blood traveling through blood vessels. This means two things: your heart must beat faster to provide the oxygen more rapidly; and you must breathe faster and harder so that your lungs can oxygenate the blood. [This writer loves exercise too!]
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Why does the heart rate go up when being on high mountains?
Parts of your body, especially your muscles, require much more oxygen during exercise, which reaches them via your blood traveling through blood vessels. This means two things: your heart must beat faster to provide the oxygen more rapidly; and you must breathe faster and harder so that your lungs can oxygenate the blood. [This writer loves exercise too!]
