An interesting fact is that your stomach actually shuts down in response to strenuous exercise! This little fact is barely the tip of the iceberg of how your body reacts to exercise. Did you ever stop to think what is really going on in your body when you exercise?
A small but interesting tidbit is your muscles are biochemical motors, and they use a chemical called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) for their energy source. During the process of "burning" ATP, your muscles need three things:
- They need oxygen, because chemical reactions require ATP and oxygen is consumed to produce ATP.
- They need to get rid of heat. Just like an electric motor, a working muscle generates heat that it needs to get rid of.
- They need to eliminate metabolic wastes (carbon dioxide, lactic acid) that the chemical reactions generate.
In order to continue exercising, your muscles must continuously manufacture ATP. For this to happen, your body must supply oxygen to the muscles and eliminate the waste products and heat. As the exercise becomes more strenuous, the greater the demands of the working muscle. If these needs are not met, then exercise will cease -- that is, you become exhausted and you won't be able to keep up the pace of the routine.
There are so many benefits to exercising and we could rehearse them all day long in discussion. Let us just start this topic with the common knowledge that exercise is good. You know that! Chances are the problem is not that you doubt the benefits of exercise but that you are having difficulty in becoming motivated to BEGIN exercising.
Read on and lets us begin this journey together. If you are having difficulty starting a routine or maintaining an exercise regiment you are not alone. Let us begin our quest for better health here and now. Read on and let’s get to our destination.
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