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Oxygen During Exercises

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When i exercised my heart beat faster, this is in order to speed up the transport of blood in the cardiovascular system. This is because as the muscles begin to work harder during the exercise they will need more oxygen, and glucose and nutrients in order to give the muscles energy as they work harder. This also means that they produce more carbon dioxide as they use up the oxygen so the heart must also pump the blood to the lungs faster in order to get the carbon dioxide out of the body and to exchange it for more oxygen.

You could test this by testing how much oxygen and carbon dioxide someone breaths when they rest and when they exercise in order to compare the two. My temperature during exercise also began to increase the longer the

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