Exercise puts healthy stress on our bodieshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏋🏻‍♂️" title="Man lifting weights (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Man lifting weights (light skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚴🏻‍♀️" title="Woman biking (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman biking (light skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⛷" title="Skier" aria-label="Emoji: Skier">

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="1️⃣" title="Keycap digit one" aria-label="Emoji: Keycap digit one">it puts stress on the vascular endothelium (lines every surface of the circulatory system)

This allows our bodies to withstand threats from inflammation from eating too much processed foods or damage from breathing smoggy air

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="2️⃣" title="Keycap digit two" aria-label="Emoji: Keycap digit two"> Reduces heart disease risk and improves vascular hormone production; exercise has been found to reduce the production of ANP (atrial natriuretic peptide) that helps balance blood pressure

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="3️⃣" title="Keycap digit three" aria-label="Emoji: Keycap digit three">Bolsters athletic performance: a stronger pump circulates blood more efficiently and helps create more blood vessels (collateral circulation). And Aerobic activity bolsters lung capacity

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="4️⃣" title="Keycap digit four" aria-label="Emoji: Keycap digit four">-Makes the heart bigger and stronger: endurance training provides specific benefits to the heart, which allows for enlargement of the chambers, called eccentric remodeling, which allows the amount of blood being pumped out by the heart to increase with each heart beat

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Rightwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Rightwards arrow">This explains why endurance athletes resting heart rates are so low....their hearts don’t have to beat as often bc each contraction pumps out a higher volume of blood

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Rightwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Rightwards arrow">Strength training has a diff impact on the heart...it creates concentric remodeling, which leads to increased pressures across the chamber of the heart, so that the heart wall gets thicker and therefore stronger