answersLogoWhite

0

Without oxygen the muscles switch to the less efficient fermentation process to extract energy from glucose. This floods the muscle cells with lactic acid, causing a burning sensation. If the lactic acid levels rise high enough the muscle cells begin to degrade and some may even die.

User Avatar

Wiki User

7y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

What happens when you cramp?

cramping generally refers to the build up of lactic acid in the muscles due to the process of anaerobic respiration.


What is the relationship between your muscles andanaerobic respiration?

you use oxygen in your muscles to do work and anaerobic respiration uses oxygen.


What is the difference between aerobic and anarobic celluar respiration?

Aerobic respiration is when there is enough oxygen to use by the muscles. This happpens in long distance running. Anaerobic respiration is when respiration continues without sufficient oxygen,This happens more often in sprinting. Anaerobic respiration forces the muscles to rip and repair more often, and become bigger and more efficient. This is why sprinters like Christine Ohuruogu tend to be more muscular than marathon runners such as Paula Radcliffe.


What substance related to cell respiration might make your muscles burn or cramp?

anaerobic respiration


What is the chemical substance formed in the anaerobic respiration in muscles?

Lactic acid is the chemical substance formed during anaerobic respiration in muscles when there is not enough oxygen available to meet energy demands.


Why is anaerobic respiration required?

When oxygen runs out, the muscles and other cells need to obtain energy from oxygen and nutrients. Anaerobic respiration (respiration without oxygen) fills this need.


What is the relationship between your ability to do work with your muscles and anaerobic respiration?

ugh.


What is the disadvantadage of anaerobic respiration?

It produces lactic acid which exhausts your muscles in no time


What gets built up in your muscles during anaerobic respiration?

lactic acid


What do humans produce during anaerobic respiration that harms muscles?

lactic acid


What process happens in the mitochbdria?

Respiration take place in it. Anaerobic respiration is taken place


What happens to muscles when there is not enough oxygen?

oxygen debt. more oxygen is needed than what is being supplied. the body then begins anaerobic respiration (the cells "breathe" for you). a result of anaerobic respiration is lactic acid. lactic acid is that soreness feeling you get after a hard workout