Vocabulary
This molecule is made inside the mitochondria and provides energy for the cell.
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
This medical tool can show you your heart rate and oxygen saturation in your bloood.
Pulse oximeter
This is the easiest form of excretion while running.
What is breathing.
You worked out, you feel week, lightheaded, dizzy... you likely didn't do this before exercising.
What is eating
Coach Jon is running in his ________ NYC marathon on November 2
1st
Meaning "A chemical process inside cells that breaks down sugar to release energy", breathing is only part of this action.
Respiration
True or false: Your body can produce energy (ATP) with and without oxygen
True
Anerobic- without oxygen
Aerobic- with oxygen
Glucagon helps regulate sugar levels while working out, but the antidiuretic hormone, aldosterone, helps your body do this.
Help with hydration levels and blood pressure maintenance
While atypical, some runners don't stop to use the bathroom, instead they do what?
Wear an adult diaper, use it and keep running.
Despite passing away in 2024, this Kenyan long-distance runner still owns three marathon records.
Kelvin Kiptum
Warm? Cold? This process helps to keep your internal body temperature stable.
Thermoregulation
You don't want to "hit the wall", which is a phrase that can mean this.
When it’s tough for the body to make energy it needs.
Things like diabetes, anemia, cardiovascular disease, hypertension are known as these, or something to consider BEFORE running a marathon.
Health risk factors
*cough cough* Running in this type of air will accelerate the drying of the lungs.
What is dry air.
Coach Jon is trying to run his marathon in an "average" time of....
The average adult has anywhere between 300 million and 800 million of these located inside their lungs.
Alveoli
The _____ side of your heart only has to pump blood to your lungs and can get more tired during heavy exercise.
Right
This small organelle is the primary source of energy within the cell(s).
Mitochondria
With people spending 7-10 hours a day on an electronic device, data suggests that our society is entirely too, this, meaning, "tending to spend much time seated" or "inactive"
What is sedentary.
To help address injuries and other medical situations that arise during a marathon, organizers of long-distance races often have these set up along the racecourse.
First aid stops/ EMS personnel
Stiff muscles, tiredness, weakness are all feelings that can happen when working out hard, making your muscles produce a lot of this chemical.
Lactic acid
During heavy workouts, such as a marathon, the heart can pump anywhere between 14-16 _________ of blood per minute, or roughly 3 times more than when you're sitting down.
Runners must excrete wastes as they run, what are four ways they do this?
Sweating
Breathing
Urinating
Defecating
After running a marathon, doctors says there is a 10-15% drop in _______ capacity for a few days, as this set of organs recovers.
Lung
Living things, plants, animals, fungi, etc., all seek to have a stable, internal environment; one that's not too hot/cold, has the correct pH, etc... this is known as...
Homeostasis