Assignment
Physiology
Assignment
Short term responses
One short term response when playing basketball is when your face starts to go red, this happens because the body gets too hot and it tries to cool the body down by bringing blood to the surface of the skin to let some heat out and the skin also produces sweat to let out heat, therefore the skin surface goes red. Another short term response to physical activity is that your breathing rate and heart rate increases, the reason this occurs is because the muscles are being made to work harder and as a result of that the muscles need more oxygen so therefore you need to breathe in more oxygen and breathe out more carbon dioxide to keep the muscles going. Another short term change that occurs due to exercise is that the muscles become more pliable, the result in the change is due to the muscles in the body contract so quickly they generate heat, so when they contract quickly, the friction between the muscles generates heat, which in turn makes the muscles more pliable. It 's just like an elastic band, when you stretch an elastic band a lot of times, the friction of the band generates heat, and you 'll find that you will be able to stretch it even further. An immediate change in the cardiovascular system as a result of playing basketball is that the blood pressure increases, this cardiovascular response happens because when exercising, your blood needs to work harder in order to supply your muscles with more oxygen. Your heart does this by pumping more blood around the body with more powerful contractions which therefore raises your blood pressure. Your systolic blood pressure increases during exercise as the cardiovascular system delivers more blood to the working muscles and your diastolic blood pressure stays roughly the same or decreases slightly and this is all to do with the dilated blood vessels in the working muscles that let heat escape. Another immediate response in the cardiovascular