Monday, September 19, 2011

The Effects Of Training & Exercise

After exercise, you’ll find your body experiences immediate and more gradual effects.
The minute you start training, you’ll notice more frequent muscle contraction, raised body temperature and pulse, and deeper breathing known as tidal volume. Longer-term effects occur as the body adapts to regular exercise, including your heart getting larger, bones becoming denser and the vital capacity of your breath deepening.
Imediate Effects Of Trainig:-
-Muscle Contraction
-Increased Blood Flow to Muscles
-Rise in Muscle Temperature

Effects Of Regular Training:-
-Increase in Bone Width & Density
-Muscles, Tendon, Ligaments get stronger
-Joints are more stable
-Increased Flexibility Of Joints
-Muscles get bigger (Hypertrophy)
-Muscle endurance improves

The bones, joints and muscles
A gymnast bend backwards
Flexibility at joints increases with regular training
Immediate effects when first exercising:
  • Muscles contract more often
  • Blood flow to muscles increases
  • Muscle temperature rises
  • Little effect on bones and joints
Effects of regular training:
  • Muscles increase in size (hypertrophy)
  • Muscular endurance improves
  • Muscles, tendons and ligaments around joints get stronger
  • Joints become more stable and flexibility at joints increases
  • Bone width and density increases

The cardiovascular system

Immediate effects when first exercising:
  • Heart contracts more often – increased heart rate.
  • Heart contracts more powerfully – increased stroke volume, which is the volume of blood pumped from heart with each beat.
  • Blood diverted to muscles, eg it is diverted from the digestive system to the muscles.
  • Blood temperature rises.
  • Blood vessels near skin open to allow heat to be lost.
Effects of regular training:
  • Heart muscle increases in size and strength.
  • Cardiac output increases. Cardiac means relating to the heart so this is the amount of blood that the heart pumps out to the body.
  • Lower resting heart rate, quicker recovery from exercise.
  • Reduced risk of heart disease.
  • Increased number of capillaries in muscles.
  • Increased volume of blood and red blood cells.

The respiratory system

Immediate effects when first exercising:
  • Increased rate of breathing
  • Increased depth of breathing – rise in tidal volume
Effects of regular training:
  • Increased strength of diaphragm and intercostal muscles.
  • Greater number of alveoli.
  • Increased ability of the lungs to extract oxygen from the air.
  • Increased vital capacity.
  • Increased amount of oxygen delivered to, and carbon dioxide removed from, the body.

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