How Exercise Helps Your Body Systems

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How Exercise Helps Your Body Systems
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If you live an active lifestyle, then you are
probably physically fit!
Ride your bike to school
Focus on Schoolwork
Participate in activities after school
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Exercising Regularly Helps All Systems of the Body

• Sensory Organs
• Skeletal System
• Muscular System
• Digestive System
• Circulatory System
• Respiratory System
• Nervous System
• Immune System
• Endocrine System

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Respiratory System
Circulatory System
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Respiratory System

• Includes all parts of body that intake air and
  eliminate waste gases
• Operates through the use of two muscles
• The Diaphragm
• Rib Muscles (intercostals)

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Diaphragm Moves down, pulling air in Relaxes,
moving up and releasing the gases
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Rib Muscles (Intercostals) Move the ribs up and
out when breathing in Replacing them back when
breathing out
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Like Other Muscles, the Diaphragm Intercostals
Get Stronger and Work Better Through Exercise!
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When exercising, your body requires more fuel
(Oxygen) and creates more Waste (Carbon
Dioxide) The lungs become more efficient at
providing the body with oxygen and removing CO2
allowing for the body to work harder
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Circulatory System

• Heart
• Arteries
• Capillaries
• Veins

Regular Exercise helps these parts of your body
function properly
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Exercise and the Heart

• Like all muscles, exercise makes the heart
  stronger
• Strong heart pumps more blood than a week heart
• More Oxygen and nutrients get pumped to the body
  cells, helping the body work better!

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Blood Pressure- The force of blood pushing
against the walls of your arteries
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Exercise reduces fat content in blood, therefore
reducing pressure High Blood Pressure can damage
the heart, kidneys, brain and eyes
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What kind of exercise improves Cardio-Vascular
Fitness?
WAIT! WHAT DID HE SAY???
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CardioHeart VascularVeins, Capillaries, Arteries
The Fitness of the Heart, Veins, Capillaries and
Arteries
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Strong Heart Pumps More Blood per Beat
Therefore, It can beat slower and still get the
job done!
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Which of these three gentlemen would have the
slowest heart rate while accomplishing the same
task?
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Aerobic Exercise? The Best Way To Improve
Cardiovascular Fitness

• Increases Heart Rate for a Long Period of Time
• At Least 20 Minutes
• Bicycling, Jogging, Swimming

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In Addition
Aerobic Exercise Benefits Stress
Reduction Mood Lifting Calming Perks Up the
Weary
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