Why is exercise good for you?

[manlymatt83]

They SAY it's good for you, we KNOW it's good for us (it lowers blood pressure, makes us lose weight, keeps our arteries clear, slows down the heart rate, etc.)

But why? WHY does it do these things? Does the body just say "OK, yep, they are exercising, so let's slow the heart rate and make sure we keep those arteries clear in return!"

Discuss.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

no. stop it. right now.

 

[JulesMaximus]

:roll:

 

[uclaLabrat]

Study biochemistry. Your body is clearly afraid of trans fats. When you exercise, your body burns trans fats, and then becomes less afraid and much more comfortable. when you scarf cheetos like a fanatic, you build up trans fats, and your body is petrified.

 

[K1052]

Must you post the most inane threads possible several times daily?

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: uclaLabrat
Study biochemistry. Your body is clearly afraid of trans fats. When you exercise, your body burns trans fats, and then becomes less afraid and much more comfortable. when you scarf cheetos like a fanatic, you build up trans fats, and your body is petrified.

So avoiding trans fats is a good thing obviously. What about saturated fats?

 

[KB]

It gets the heart pumping faster, which strengthens the heart, a muscle. Because the heart is stronger it doesn't need to pump as many times to move the same volume of blood so your heart rate goes down.

It strengthens all muscles and stronger muscles burns more calories which makes you lose weight.
Sweating makes you lose salt, which can help lower blood pressure, but there are many others factors I don't know about.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

you are short a chromosome or 2 aren't you?

 

[uclaLabrat]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak

Originally posted by: uclaLabrat
Study biochemistry. Your body is clearly afraid of trans fats. When you exercise, your body burns trans fats, and then becomes less afraid and much more comfortable. when you scarf cheetos like a fanatic, you build up trans fats, and your body is petrified.

So avoiding trans fats is a good thing obviously. What about saturated fats?

oh god. Forget biochem. Study sarcasm instead.

 

[MyThirdEye]

Originally posted by: K1052
Must you post the most inane threads possible several times daily?

 

[skace]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise

Seriously.

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
you are short a chromosome or 2 aren't you?

yes

 

[rezinn]

Can I filter out mjuszczak threads somehow

 

[Rudee]

Ban this putz.

 

[MegaVovaN]

If u lookin 4 excuse not to do shit, there's no need to post stupid threads fatass

 

[spidey07]

OP - when are you going to get your head fixed? You're gonna be dead before you hit 30 if you keep this up.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: rezinn
Can I filter out mjuszczak threads somehow

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ey=y&keyword1=jlgatsby

 

[Rudee]

Originally posted by: mjuszczak
They SAY it's good for you, we KNOW it's good for us (it lowers blood pressure, makes us lose weight, keeps our arteries clear, slows down the heart rate, etc.)

But why? WHY does it do these things? Does the body just say "OK, yep, they are exercising, so let's slow the heart rate and make sure we keep those arteries clear in return!"

Discuss.

Your body reacts to the stress of exercise by making muscles stronger, and your heart is a muscle. Your muscles become more efficient at performing work. In the case of your heart muscle, your stronger and more efficient heart doesn't need to work as hard to perform the same amount of work, as a result it doesn't need to pump as quickly. The body adapts to exercise in many ways, this adaptation is a genetic response.

 

[NanoStuff]

There's good progress in breaking down the biochemical pathways of exercise. Exercise in a pill you can call it. Exercise without the exercise would be nice, including eliminating the potential side effects.

 

[meltdown75]

Because you touch yourself at night.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
you are short a chromosome or 2 aren't you?

That one just made me bust out laughing at work.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Hi

 

[Dualist]

Exercising helps you to burn more fat and calories, and help keeps your heart going strong.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Excersizing causes extra stress on joints and will make you frail!

 

[Xavier434]

I don't know but posting a thread about it here is the first thing I would do too if I wanted answers.