The Respiratory System
When you dance or engage in physical exercise, your body responds in a variety of ways. The main role of your respiratory system is to bring fresh air into your body and to get rid of waste gases. Your respiratory system experiences both short-term and long-term exercise-associated benefits. The short-term benefits include, an increase in your breathing rate and tidal volume (which is the amount of air you inhale or exhale from your lungs in one breath) which is a good thing, as the more clean, fresh oxygen we breathe, the better we will feel, both inside and out. Some of the long-term benefits include an improvement of the efficiency of your respiration by strengthening your diaphragm and intercostal muscles (the tiny muscles in between your ribcage which aid in breathing) as well as increasing the total number of alveoli (the tiny air-filled sacs where gas exchange occurs). Your circulatory system then carries this new oxygen rich blood through your body to all major organs and tissues, creating a much happier body as a whole.
For more information about how the respiratory system is affected by physical activity, check out these links:
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The Dancer As a Performing Athlete
For a more in depth explanation on how the respiratory system works, check out this video:
For more information about how the respiratory system is affected by physical activity, check out these links:
LiveStrong
Contemporary Dance
The Dancer As a Performing Athlete
For a more in depth explanation on how the respiratory system works, check out this video: