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What is capillaries proliferate |
accelerate blood vessels |
Pace thru organs |
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Training Effect |
Increase muscle and other body tissue as a result of stress |
Addition to working out |
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What does the energy come from that fuels our physical activity? |
Sun, carbs, fats, and proteins |
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What is Homeostasis? |
The automatic tendency to maintain a relatively constant internal environment through various processes. |
Body temperature |
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What is Glucose? |
a simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates. |
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What is Ketone bodies? |
Bodies produced as intermediate products of fat metabolism. |
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What is Lactic Acid? |
A by-product of glucose and glycogen metabolism in an anaerobic muscle energetics. |
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What is Amino acids? |
A building block of protein, there are 24 Amino acids, which form countless number of different proteins. |
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What is Fatty acids? |
Any of a large group of monobasic acids, especially found in animal and vegetable fats and oils. |
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What is Anabolism? |
Building up, storage, and constructive metabolism |
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What is Catabolism? |
Breakdown, release energy, and destructive metabolism. |
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Define Metabolism |
The total of chemical, physical processes which the body builds and breaking down substance for the production of energy. |
What processes Metabolism? |
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List and define the two phases of metabolism. |
Anabolism: builds up and stores body chemical compound. Catabolism : Breakdown body chemical compound. |
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What is BMR and how does it relate to our metabolic set point? |
BMR (basal metabolic rate) The minimum energy required to maintain the body's life function at rest; usually expressed in calories per hour per square meter of the body surface. |
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