What Happens To Your Body During Exercise!
Summary
TLDRThis video explains the various effects exercise has on your body, highlighting the benefits to muscles, heart, lungs, skin, hair, liver, joints, brain, back, immune system, waistline, and hormones. Exercise leads to muscle growth, enhanced cardiovascular and lung function, improved skin and hair health, and better liver and joint conditions. It also boosts brain function, back strength, immune response, fat loss, and hormone levels, contributing to overall well-being and vitality.
Takeaways
- đȘ Exercise stimulates muscle hypertrophy, leading to increased blood flow and oxygen supply, which helps in muscle repair and growth.
- đââïž Resistance activities, such as weight lifting and jogging, can cause muscle soreness due to micro-tears that heal and strengthen over a few days.
- đ An elevated heart rate during exercise is crucial for enhancing cardiovascular fitness and is influenced by fitness level and exercise type.
- đ The heart's ability to pump blood increases during workouts, improving its performance and leading to a lower resting heart rate over time.
- đŹïž Lungs play a vital role in supplying oxygen and removing carbon dioxide during exercise, with breathing rates increasing to meet the body's demands.
- đ§ââïž Regular exercise improves skin health by increasing blood flow, aiding in nutrient delivery and waste removal, and potentially reversing signs of aging.
- đ§ Sweating during exercise helps to unclog hair follicles, promoting healthy hair growth and providing nourishment to hair roots.
- đïžââïž Liver health is improved by reducing body fat through exercise, which also enhances the liver's capacity to function effectively.
- 𩮠Physical activity is beneficial for joint health, as it helps to maintain cartilage and reduce pressure on joints, especially in those with osteoarthritis.
- đ§ Exercise promotes brain health by increasing blood flow, improving memory, and reducing stress levels, which can help combat depression and anxiety.
- đ The lymphatic system benefits from exercise, as muscle contractions aid in the removal of metabolic waste and boost the immune system's ability to fight off infections.
Q & A
What is muscle hypertrophy and how is it activated during exercise?
-Muscle hypertrophy is the growth and increase in size of muscle cells, which is activated when the resistance during exercise exceeds what the body can handle. This process leads to more blood being driven to the muscles to provide additional oxygen, and if the demand for oxygen exceeds supply, lactic acid forms but is typically flushed out within half an hour to an hour after exercising.
Why does lactic acid form in the body during exercise and how is it usually dealt with?
-Lactic acid forms in the body when there is not enough supplemental oxygen during exercise. It is flushed out of the body within half an hour to an hour after working out, which is a normal process.
How does exercise affect the heart and what are the benefits for cardiovascular fitness?
-Exercise increases heart rate as the body works harder than normal. The increase in heart rate depends on fitness level and type of exercise. Regular exercise helps the heart get used to high-level performance, which can minimize resting heart rate and improve heart rate recovery after exercise.
How does the lung function during exercise and what happens to the breathing rate?
-During exercise, the lungs work to provide energy, oxygen, and eliminate carbon dioxide. As the body works harder, the demand for oxygen increases, leading to an increase in breathing rate from about 10 to 15 times a minute. This helps circulate oxygen to the muscles to support continuous movement.
What role does the skin play during exercise and how can it benefit from increased blood flow?
-Increased blood flow during exercise helps maintain skin cells by providing nutrients and oxygen. It can improve wrinkles, acne, and even reverse skin aging. Additionally, blood flow aids in washing away waste products, cleansing the body from the inside, and can help flush out toxins through sweating.
How does exercise impact hair growth and what are some beneficial activities for hair health?
-Sweating during exercise flushes out toxins and waste, including from the scalp, which can unclog hair follicles and promote healthy hair growth. Moderate to high-level cardio activities like cycling, dance, running, yoga, and Zumba are beneficial for hair health, as are inversion yoga poses that increase blood flow to the scalp.
What is the liver's role during exercise and how can it be positively affected by physical activity?
-The liver, located in the upper right side of the abdomen, can be burdened by excess weight. Exercise reduces total body fat, including liver fat, decreasing elevated liver enzymes. Workouts can shape the liver by enhancing its circulatory ability, making it more resilient against tissue degeneration.
How does exercise affect the joints and what is the role of cartilage in this process?
-Physical activity can put additional weight on joints, but it also keeps the tissues around the joints healthy, reducing pressure and protecting them. Cartilage, the cushioning tissue around joints, can degenerate over time, but exercise helps maintain its health, providing stability and smooth motion.
How does exercise impact brain function and what are the psychological benefits?
-Exercise improves brain growth by increasing blood flow to the brain, promoting memory strength, and increasing the production of dopamine and serotonin, which are feel-good chemicals. It can help lift mood, ease depression and anxiety, and improve the brain's executive functions for better organization and focus.
What are the benefits of exercise for back problems and how does it help maintain spinal health?
-Exercise is a natural solution for back problems caused by poor posture or minimal movement. It helps repair and nourish spinal structures, keeps the back flexible and strong, and reduces the risk of injuries. Regular exercise allows the discs in the back to interchange fluids, providing nutrition and reducing swelling in injured tissues.
How does exercise affect the immune system and what are the health benefits?
-Exercise keeps the lymph system in good condition, helping to remove metabolic waste through the contraction of muscles during physical activity. It also produces more white blood cells, which can reduce the presence of bacteria and viruses, and boost the immune system's ability to identify and destroy harmful invaders.
What is the impact of exercise on waistline and body fat, and how does it help with weight management?
-Exercise helps reduce subcutaneous and visceral fat, improving overall looks and vitality. It increases the production of mitochondria and proteins that aid in the transportation of fatty acids into cells for energy conversion, creating enzymes that break down fat more efficiently.
How does exercise influence hormone levels and what are the specific benefits for men and women?
-Regular exercise can improve hormone levels. For men, it can increase testosterone levels, which aids in bone and muscle growth and sex drive. For women, it can regulate estrogen production, helping with fertility, weight regulation, and reducing menopausal symptoms. Exercise also releases the hormone irisin, which may contribute to longer telomeres and reduced risk of age-related diseases.
Outlines
đȘ Muscle Growth and Repair
This paragraph discusses the impact of exercise on muscles, highlighting the process of muscle hypertrophy when resistance is applied. It explains how increased blood flow delivers oxygen, preventing lactic acid buildup, and how muscle fibers experience micro-tears that lead to growth as they heal. The text also touches on the temporary soreness post-exercise, which is a sign of muscle adaptation.
đ Cardiovascular and Respiratory Benefits
The second paragraph delves into the effects of exercise on the heart and lungs. It outlines how exercise increases heart rate and improves cardiovascular fitness, with the skeletal muscles aiding in blood circulation. The lungs' role in providing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide is emphasized, along with the respiratory system's efficiency gains from regular exercise. The paragraph also covers the skin's response to increased blood flow, including its role in detoxification and skin health, as well as the benefits of exercise for hair growth and liver health.
đ§ Brain, Joint, and Immune System Enhancement
This section of the script explores the cognitive benefits of exercise, including improved brain growth, memory, and mood regulation through increased blood flow and neurotransmitter production. It also discusses the protective effects of exercise on joints, with physical activity helping to maintain cartilage health and reduce the impact of osteoarthritis. Additionally, the paragraph covers the immune system's enhancement through exercise, with the lymphatic system's waste removal and the production of white blood cells being key factors.
đ Hormonal Balance and Longevity
The final paragraph focuses on the hormonal impacts of exercise, detailing how it can improve testosterone levels in men and estrogen regulation in women. It also introduces irisin, a hormone produced during exercise that may contribute to longevity by maintaining the length of telomeres, potentially reducing the risk of diseases like Alzheimer's, cancer, and heart disease.
Mindmap
Keywords
đĄMuscles
đĄHeart
đĄLungs
đĄSkin
đĄHair
đĄLiver
đĄJoints
đĄBrain
đĄImmune System
đĄHormones
Highlights
Muscle hypertrophy is activated when resistance exceeds the body's capacity, leading to increased blood flow and muscle growth.
Lactic acid forms without supplemental oxygen during exercise but is usually flushed out within half an hour to an hour post-workout.
Tiny tears in muscles during exercise stimulate growth and healing, which can cause temporary soreness.
Heart rate increases during exercise due to the body working harder, enhancing cardiovascular fitness.
Skeletal muscle contractions drive blood towards the heart, increasing heart rate and promoting high-level performance.
Lung function is critical during workouts, providing oxygen and eliminating carbon dioxide, with regular exercise improving lung efficiency.
Increased blood flow during exercise nourishes skin cells, potentially improving wrinkles, acne, and reversing skin aging.
Sweating from exercise helps flush out toxins and unclog hair follicles, promoting healthy hair growth.
Exercising reduces liver fat and improves liver function, aiding in the organ's ability to withstand tissue degeneration.
Physical activity protects joints by nourishing cartilage and reducing pressure on them, beneficial for those with osteoarthritis.
Exercise improves brain growth, memory, mood, and reduces stress by lowering cortisol levels and promoting new nerve cells.
Regular exercise is a natural solution for back problems, repairing and nourishing spinal structures, and reducing back pain.
Exercise boosts the immune system by maintaining the lymph system and increasing white blood cell production.
Physical activity targets visceral fat, improving overall looks and vitality by increasing mitochondria and fat-burning enzymes.
Regular exercise improves hormone levels, including testosterone in men and estrogen regulation in women, and promotes the anti-aging hormone irisin.
Transcripts
What Happens To Your Body During Exercise?
12.
Muscles- According to Livestrong.com, your muscles form some of the integral tissues
in your body, and tissue changes occur with resistance exercise.
Any form of exercise which includes lifting weights, jogging or doing pushups is some
kind of resistance activity being placed on your muscles.
When the resistance is greater than what your body can handle, muscle building or muscle
hypertrophy is activated.
So more blood is driven to the muscles being exercised to give additional oxygen.
Without the supplemental oxygen, lactic acid will form in the body instead.
But it is usually flushed out of the body within half an hour to an hour after working
out.
Tiny tears build in the muscle which helps them become active and bigger as the heal.
This is perfectly normal.
The greater the tear, the more youâll be sore after exercising.
This typically only lasts a few days as soreness means there are changes in your muscles.
11.
Heart- As with any workout, your heart rate increases because youâre working much harder
than you normally are.
How much your rate will go up depends on how fit you are and the type of exercise youâre
doing.
Training experts vary on how high your heart rate should be when working out, but it does
need to be significantly higher than your resting heart rate to enhance your cardiovascular
fitness.
As you begin your workout, your skeletal muscles compress the veins near them which push the
blood towards your heart.
They contract and relax, driving extra blood to your heart which causes your heart rate
to go up.
Within this process, it means youâre putting more labor on your arm and leg muscles which
pump more blood to your heart.
So when working out your heart will get used to high-level performance, and these changes
will minimize your resting heart rate and boost your heart rate recovery after you exercise.
10.
Lungs- During your workout, aside from your heart, another vital organ comes in action:
the lungs.
Your lungs provide energy, oxygen and eliminate carbon dioxide which is created when producing
energy.
When you have healthy lungs, you keep maintaining a large breathing reserve.
You may feel out of breath after intense activity, but you will not be out of breath.
When your muscles and your body start to work harder, you will use more oxygen and make
more carbon dioxide.
To bear with the extra demand, you will start to increase your breathing from about 10 to
15 times a minute.
Your circulation will also increase to force oxygen to your muscles so they can keep moving.
When your lung function is cut short, you use a larger part of your breathing reserve
which can feel uncomfortable as you try to catch your breath.
This is entirely normal, and this type of training helps with circulation.
Regular exercise activity can improve the function and strength of your lungs, making
it more efficient.
9.
Skin- When you exercise your increasing blood flow which helps maintain skin cells and keep
them nourished.
Your blood transports nutrients and oxygen to the cells working throughout your entire
body including the skin.
In addition, it improves wrinkles and acne and can even reverse skin aging.
Also blood flow aids in washing away any waste products which flushes cellular debris from
your body.
Think of it as cleansing your body but from the inside.
Sweating can help drive draw out the toxins in your body, but donât assume this is a
quick fix to vanish pimples.
Exercise then shower afterward.
Working out also helps to flush out your pores.
With aerobic exercise, oxygenated blood circulates throughout your entire body will cause you
to glow because your blood vessels fill up closer to the surface.
After an intense workout, your vessels dilate which gives your skin a vibrant and healthy
look.
Not only doing exercise boost your collagen but itâll help keep your skin firm, elastic
and supple.
8.
Hair- Sweating through exercise flushed out toxins and waste from our body and when we
sweat from our scalp, it aids to unclog the hair follicles.
This allows enough space for new hair to grow.
This also gives nourishment to hair roots which promote healthy hair growth.
In fact, exercising and its effects have been compared to the results of an oil massage
since both increase blood circulation and can relax you.
Moderate to high-level cardio activity like cycling, dance, running, yoga, Zumba is beneficial
for healthy hair.
While inversion yoga poses like shoulder stands, downward facing dog, sun salutation and headstands
are excellent for healthy hair growth.
These inversion positions increase blood flow to your scalp and fix hormonal imbalances
which contribute to hair loss.
7.
Liver- Located right below your diaphragm, centered in the upper right side of your abdomen
is your liver which lies under your ribs.
When you're overweight, this puts a burden on your liver.
So by exercising your total body fat is cut down and the fat content in your liver is
also reduced as well which decreases reduction of elevated liver enzymes.
When you exercise, the workouts you do shapes the liver by boosting its capability to drain
and fill at its maximum capacity.
Through maximizing it circulatory ability, your liver is better able to withstand liver
tissue degeneration.
A few simple moves to enhance your liverâs health is trunk turning.
Start off by sitting upright with your legs crossed with overlying palms over your lower
stomach.
Turn your turn to the left and right about fifteen times.
Then turn from side to side in a gentle motion.
Then in a centered pose, join your hands and fingers and interlock.
Then push your palms forward about eight times.
6.
Joints- Physical activity puts additional weight on the joints, sometimes even up to
five or six times more than your average body weight.
Your ankles, elbows, hips, knees, and shoulders all have different roles but works in similar
ways.
Each joint in your body is surrounded with cushioning tissue called cartilage and the
ends of your bones.
The lubricating fluid and soft tissue help to provide easy and smooth motion movements,
while your ligaments and tendons supply stability.
The cushioning around your joints can begin to degenerate or wear down over time.
This is common in people with osteoarthritis so by exercising the tissues become healthy
and serve as a brace to protect your joints and lessen the pressure.
Nutrients circulate to the joint since physical activity pushes water molecules out of the
cartilage just like a sponge.
In addition, cellular waste is eliminated where damaged cells in are broken down and
destroyed.
5.
Brain- As we age, the formation of new brain cells slow down, and our brain tissue also
shrinks.
So by exercising, it helps improve brain growth by driving blood flow to the brain.
It also promotes memory strength and heightens the bodyâs production of dopamine and serotonin
which are feel good chemicals.
Exercise can help lift up your mood and can help ease depression and anxiety.
Working out also improves the brainâs executive functions which allow us to organize better
and focus more on complex tasks.
Since brain cells are depleted during times of high stress, physical activity lowers cortisol
levels.
It is also thought that exercise helps promote new nerve cells in the hippocampus which is
connected to producing new memories.
This helps eliminate scattered, slow thinking and forgetfulness.
When you work out regularly, exercise triggers the release of neurotransmitter, which causes
you to have ârunners highâ due to endorphins.
The pituitary gland alerts the adrenal gland in the brain to pump out these hormones needed
for movement.
4.
Back- For most back problems caused by poor posture or minimal movement, exercise and
physical activity are natural solutions.
Progressive, gradual and controlled exercise rather than bed rest is actually the best
long-term fix for reducing back pain.
When you exercise, you are repairing and nourishing spinal structures, which can help aid existing
back problems.Exercise and movement keep your back flexible and strong and reduces the risk
of injuries and back pain.
When you participate in fitness activities, youâre keeping your back healthy by allowing
the discs to interchange fluids.
This is how the disc gets its nutrition.
An good disc will fill with water and squeeze it out, and fluid trade reduces the swelling
in other tissues that naturally happens surrounding injured discs.
When there is no exercise involved, the enlargement increases and the disc get degenerated and
malnourished.
So working out, stretches, repairs and strengthens the muscles supporting your back.
3.
Immune System- Working out keeps the lymph system in good condition.
Your body typically has 500 lymph nodes which are tissues that get rid of metabolic waste.
But this waste canât be removed without the help of nearby muscles.
So when your muscles contract during exercise, it puts pressure on lymph nodes that pump
out the waste from your body.
Working out also produces white cells in the body and with more white blood cells, means
fewer bacteria and viruses.
In fact, Ph.D. director David Nieman of the human performance labs of Appalachian State
University states that just forty-five minutes of walking every day can reduce the number
of workdays you miss due to sickness up to fifty percent.
Exercise is a natural stimulus that is proven to boost your immune systemâs capability
to identify and destroy toxins and harmful invaders.
2.
Waistline- Worried about you love handles?
Donât worry, exercise can make them disappear, but did you know itâs the loss of excess
fat buried inside your body that helps your overall looks and vitality?
Your body contains two different types of fat.
Subcutaneous fat which is the one you can pinch and visceral fat that coats the abdominal
organs.
Regular physical activity trains your body to burn visceral fat more efficiently.
When you workout, your body produces more mitochondria, where the aerobic metabolism
happens.
It makes more proteins to boost the transportation of fatty acids into cells that can be converted
into energy.
This process creates more enzymes that destroy fat.
The more enzymes you have, the faster the visceral fat can be broken down, and the better
youâll look.
1.
Hormones- Never underestimate the power of a good sweat.
Regular physical exercise can help improve your weight and boost hormone levels.
For men, testosterone, which is the hormone that builds bone and muscle growth and increases
sex drive rise for fifteen minutes to an hour after exercising.
But this varies on your fitness level, age and how intensely you worked out.
Testosterone circulates in the body to create muscle mass.
For women, working out can have an impact on estrogen production.
Exercising even in small amounts can regulate body weight for healthy levels of fertility
and can even help women to sleep better and reduce hot flashes in postmenopausal women.
The exercise hormone called irisin also breaks off and circulates throughout your entire
body.
A U.K. investigation found that people with more higher levels of irisin in their bodies
were more likely to have longer caps at the end of chromosomes that shorten as you get
older.
This can decrease the risk of Alzheimer's, cancer and heart disease.
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