ACUTE AND CHRONIC

PHYSIOLOGICAL
RESPONSE TO
EXERCISE
PHYISOLOGICAL RESPONSES
COULD BE:

SHORT TERM
or ACUTE RESPONSES
LONG TERM
or CHRONIC RESPONSES
RESPONSES TO BODY
SYSTEMS
MUSCULAR SYSTEM
ACUTE
- Increase in oxygen extracted from the
blood
- Increase muscle activation of greater
amount of muscles used
- Increase of muscle temperature
- Decrease energy stores
CHRONIC

-Increase muscle memory

-Adapt to heavy activities
-Increase capacity to produce and
store energy
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
ACUTE
- Blood directed away from non essential or non
vital organs to skeletal muscles
- High cardiac output through increase in heart
rate.
- Increase blood pressure
- Decrease blood plasma due to sweating
CHRONIC

- Heart and blood vessels are more efficient at

delivering oxygenated blood to working
muscles
- Increase efficiency of removing waste
products such as CO2 and lactic acid from the
body
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
ACUTE

- Increase ventilation through increase respiratory rate

- Gas exchange increases in alveoli by more oxygen
diffusing in and CO2 diffusing out
CHRONIC

- Improve lung mechanics

- Lungs become more efficient at delivering
oxygen to alveolar capillaries and removing
CO2 from the body.