What fuels your cellular activity? What are mitochondria? Why do aerobic athletes have more mitochondria than average people? Why are mitochondria important when excercising?
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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What fuels your cellular activity? What are mitochondria? Why do aerobic athletes have more mitochondria than average people? Why are mitochondria important when excercising?
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All cells are powered by ATP, which stands for adenosine triphosphate. This is found in all of the cells in the body. Mitochondria are the organelles in cells which generate ATP. The more you exercise, the more mitochondria are produced and trained. Athletes have up to 200% more mitochondria built up throughout their body due to the fact that they train and use more by doing aerobic exercises. Mitochondria are very important while exercising because they provide energy for short and long spurts of exercising.
ReplyDeleteMitochondria are important because when they go up in number and size, you will burn fat faster and use your glucose at a more reasonable pace. This is why exercising regularly is so important to the human body.
Cellular Activity is fueled by ATP's (Adenosine Triphosphate). When you exercise you use Atp's small supply of energy in your'e body. Exercise improves all energy delivery. This increases glucose storage in your'e muscles and liver. If you don't have aerobic fitness you have fewer mitochondria. Mitochondria is the power plant of cells. when you don't have aerobic fitness you burn more glucose and less fat. Mitochondria increases in size and number, and the enzymes inside them get better efficiency in producing the energy. Aerobic athletes have 200 percent more mitochondria than most average people.
ReplyDeleteMitochondria are important because the more you have of it, the greater percentage of fat you use at any given speed. aerobic activity trains all of the energy sources.
Aerobic exercise helps you burn fat. When you do sprints your body uses a little bit of energy called ATP which will last you about ten seconds. When you do aerobic exercise your body is burning glucose and fat. Exercise improves all your energy delivery withing your body. It allows you to store more glucose in your muscles and liver. Exercising in this way ups your mitochondria. This relates to what we are doing in class because it relates to mitochondria, an organelle within cells.
ReplyDeleteAll cellular activity is fueled by adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, which resides in each of your cells. Mitochondria are organelles that convert the chemical energy stored in food into compounds that are more convenient for the cell to use. This means you burn more fat, which reserves your stored glucose longer and allows you to produce more energy for a longer period of time.We find that aerobic athletes have up to 200 percent more mitochondria than average people. Mitochondria are important — the more you have, the higher percentage of fat you utilize at any given speed. With aerobic exercise, your mitochondria increase in size and number, and the enzymes within them gain greater efficiency in producing energy.
ReplyDeleteCells draw energy form adenosine triphosphate, commonly referred to as ATP. ATP can be harnessed to fuel any cellular activity. However, ATP is only found in specialized organelles known as mitochondria. These cellular powerhouses are vital to all eukaryotic cells.
ReplyDeleteAerobic fitness is affected by the concentration and status of your mitochondria. With constant aerobic exercise, a person can develop larger and more concentrated numbers of mitochondria. The enzymes within also become better trained, allowing them to burn fat more efficiently during aerobic exercise. The endurance and fitness of athletes can be explained by their high levels of mitochondria; athletes can be found to have up to 200 percent more mitochondria than the average person. Aerobic exercise may take time, effort, and consistency, but the resulting mitochondrial benefits are unsurpassable to weight losers and athletes alike.
Exercise is very useful for burning fat. I didn't know that you can only get an 8 to 10 second burst on full throttle. This is a note that I can use when I run track. About the term "hit the wall", I thought it happens sooner, but that could just mean I few mitochondria. I am fairly active, I thought I would have a higher count. I also didn't know that Mitochondria affected exercise fat burn rates and energy in general.
ReplyDeleteCellular activity is fueled by adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, which is in each cell. Whenever you excersize, you use a tiny amount of stored ATP. The ATP can sustain a eight-second burst of energy. After eight seconds, your body uses creatine phosphate to put another two seconds. Excersize improves that energy delivery. Without aerobic fitness, you would not have as many mitochondria, which are the "power plants" of the cell. Aerobic atheletes have 200% more mitochondria than average people, because each time you excersize aerobically, they increase in size and number, and the enzymes in them have greater efficency in producing energy. When you excersize, you need the mitochondria to burn fat, and save the glucose that you stored up so you can produce energy for a longer period of time.
ReplyDeleteCellular activity is fueled by adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is located in each and every cell. Mitochondria is an organelle that produces ATP. Aerobic athletes have more mitochondria compared to regular people because exercising incrases muscle storage in their muscles and liver, increasing mitochondria in size and number. The more mitochondria there are, the greater efficiency enzymes get in producing energy. This enables more fat to burn, thus reserving stored glucose much longer and more energy can be produced for a longer time period.
ReplyDeleteAdenosine triphosphate fuels all your cellular activity, located in each of your cells and is used a little each time you reach a high intensity rate of exercise.Mitochondria are the power source for cells and are in both plant and animal cells. Aerobic Athletes have 200% more mitochondria than the average person because the more aerobic exercise you do the more mitochondria you produce.Mitochondria are important when exercising because "mitochondria increase in size and number, and the enzymes within them gain greater efficiency in producing energy". Which means that you will burn more fat. The more mitochondria you have the more fat you burn when exercising!
ReplyDeleteExercise can better the energy delivery in our bodies, which increases the glucose storage in the liver and muscles.The reason a body needs areobic fitness is because this expands the Mitochondria, and as it gets bigger the body produces more energy. When you burn alot of fat, the body reserves glucose longer. Also this ables the body to produce energy for a longer time period.
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