Exercising has many long term benefits towards your body. The first one I am going to be writing about is the respiratory system.
The respiratory system controls your breathing and begins when you draw in air through your nose or mouth. The air travels through your windpipe into both of your lungs, where small air sacs capture oxygen and distribute it in your bloodstream through small blood vessels called capillaries. Your diaphragm is the muscle the controls respiration and contracts when you inhale. Your diaphragm then relaxes, collapses your chest and forces out carbon dioxide when you exhale. Some of the long term effects are as follows:
The respiratory muscles (Diaphragm/intercostals) increase in strength.
This results in larger lungs which allows more Oxygen to be diffused into the blood flow and it will start cleaning mucus that may be in any of them.
An increase in the number and diameter of capillaries surrounding the alveoli leads to an increase in the efficiency of gaseous exchange.
The muscular system is responsible not only for your movement and mobility. But also our muscular system is responsible for our energy, to move food from one organ to another. The three kinds of muscle we have are cardiac, smooth and skeletal. Some of the long term benefits of exercise on the muscular system are as follows :
increased numbers of mitochondria (the cells powerhouse) means an increase in the rate of energy production.
The muscles, bones and ligaments become stronger to cope with the additional stresses and impact put through them and helps you stay fit.
The amount of myoglobin within skeletal muscle increases, which allows more Oxygen to be stored within the muscle, and transported to the mitochondria.
Muscles are a store of glycogen for energy.
Enzymes involved in energy production become more concentrated and efficient