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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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