Muscular System Lesson 5 Short-term responses to exercise

Question 1

What is responses?

Answer 1

These are immediate, short-term ways that the muscular system reacts when you exercise. The reactions are short lived. When you stop exercising, the muscular system has no reason to react to exercise, and therefore stops and slowly recovers back to it’s pre-exercise.

Question 2

What are these five short-term responses of the muscular system to exercise?

Answer 2

Increased blood supply 
Increased muscle temperature 
Increased muscle pliability 
Lactate accumulation 
Micro tears