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Breathing more deeply can help increase oxygen intake, but it won't necessarily slow down your breathing rate. The body adjusts breathing rate based on the levels of carbon dioxide in the blood, not just oxygen. So while deep breathing can increase oxygen intake, it may not directly result in a slower breathing rate.

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What is oxygen debt and when does it occur?

The Oxygen Debt is the extra volume of oxygen consumed by muscle tissue after intensive exercise. It is also referred to as recovery oxygen or excess postexercise oxygen consumption (EPOC). EPOC - excess post oxygen consumptionOxygen debt is the amount of extra oxygen required by muscle tissue to convert accumulated lactic acid to glucose and replenish depleted ATP following vigorous exercise.


Why do you keep breathing heavily after you have stopped running?

You have gone into oxygen deficit. Your body has used a lot of oxygen while you were running and has produced more carbon dioxide. You need to get rid of the excess carbon dioxide and replenish the oxygen. This is why you keep breathing heavily. If you just hold your breath for a long time the same effect occurs. Your body keeps on using oxygen and producing carbon dioxide even if you are not running.


Name the two biological compounds that contain nitrogen and oxygen?

There are a lot more than 2 - amino acids, proteins, DNA, RNA, Tissue, bone, etc, blood, hemoglobin


What is the plural of oxygen?

well, I think it is oxygen itself.....i have heard my teachers say "it needs a lot of oxygen to work".i haven't heard anybody say 'oxygens'or any other ways


What is the substitute of oxygen?

The substitute for oxygen in certain applications is often nitrogen or carbon dioxide, depending on the specific use case. These gases can be used as inert alternatives to oxygen in processes like welding or food packaging to prevent oxidation and maintain product quality.

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How does fitness affect playing the trumpet?

you learn to breath in a lot more oxygen and get a lot more puff into you


Why do you breath harder when exercising?

your body needs to get rid of CO2 that has built up and it needs to get oxygen for energy a lot quicker. so you take bigger breaths which release more CO2 and bring in more oxygen.


Why do you breath slower when you are at rest?

When you are at rest, or sleeping, your heart beats slower. Because it is beating slower, blood travels more slowly through your body, and therefore more slowly through your lungs. As a result, you breath slower. When you do vigorous activity, your heart beats faster to supply blood to your body cells faster. This causes blood to race through your body and lungs, requiring you to breath a lot faster to keep up with the amount of blood that needs oxygen from your lungs.


Why shouldn't you hold your breath when you lift weights?

Your body needs a lot of oxygen when performing rigorous tasks, and any depriving of oxygen can make you pass out. You should constantly breath, and if you cannot, do a smaller weight until your lungs adjust.


Why do you get short of breath in a race?

You can move because your muscles respire, this involves using glucose and oxygen and turning it into water and energy. The more you move your muscles, the more oxygen you need. Oxygen has to go into the lungs then pass into the bloodstream to get to all your muscles. This process is limited so when you use your muscles a lot when running you begin to run out of oxygen. Your body compensates by performing more anaerobic respiration, which doesn't need oxygen. This produces lactic acid but allows you to keep running. The lack of oxygen is called oxygen debt, the faster and the more you run, the more oxygen debt builds up. When you stop running there is still all that lactic acid in your bloodstream and in your muscles. You need to keep breathing so your body can neutralise that acid otherwise your muscles would end up damaged.


How do you know when your out of shape?

If your out of breath a lot, more so than the people around you.


Where can you obtained the oxygen for a moon colony?

Actually NASA just found a bunch of water on the Moon. A lot more than anyone ever imagined. So that pretty much solves all your problems. Using electrolysis to separate Hydrogen for fuel and Oxygen to breath your set!


Is there more carbon dioxide in air or your breath?

After you breathe air IN, your body uses some (but not all) of the oxygen in it. A lot of that oxygen that your body uses get converted to carbon dioxide, and it's added to the air that you breathe out. So your exhaled air has a greater concentration of carbon dioxide than fresh air has.


What should you do if you breath in a lot of smoke from a gas fire?

Go to the ER . You need to be evaluated by a doctor , maybe oxygen . maybe respiratory therapy treatment or hospitalization.


Why is it more common for girls to play flutes?

well maybe because girls talk more, and the flute requires a lot of breath support


Is it related to your asthma?

you get out of breath a lot


Is blood in veins have oxygen?

Oxygen never fully dissociates from the haemoglobin in the red blood cells. There is a lot more oxygen in arterial blood, but there is still oxygen in veinal blood too.