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Obstacles During Exercise

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During exercise, your heart rate increases then plateaus and will remain at this state for as long as you sustain the consistent pace. It further increases when more effort is given, and the response of the heart to exercise is to pump oxygen to the muscles used. The process of this is oxygen being transferred to red blood cells from the lungs, which transports to the heart, which pumps the oxygen to the muscles. While exercising, the mitochondria in the muscle syndicates an energy molecule; ATP with oxygen, glucose and fat.
A heartbeat is produced by the heart muscles; senatorial node, which is myogenic, in which it is able to contract itself. Due to the depolarization of the cell wall of this muscle, it initiates the contractions, activating
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