Effects of Exercise on Body Temperature

Have you ever noticed that you sweat more after a rigorous workout than you do during the workout? The energy of your muscles is lost as heat, thereby, resulting in a rise in the body temperature all the while you're exercising.

In order to keep your temperature from accelerating, it's the heart's job to pump the heat into your blood via the muscles to your skin, so that you sweat, which then evaporates to cool your body. However, after you're done with workout, but naturally, the heart slows down immediately, thereby, reducing the amount of blood that has been pumped to your skin.

This leads to a rapid rise in temperature, and hence, you sweat more. Interesting? While the first segment attempts to explain what happens to the body temperature during exercise, the second segment accounts for the alteration in body temperature after exercise.

As was hinted in the beginning, during exercise, not only does the metabolism, but the process of production in the body temperature too, increases at a significant rate. However, the core body temperature which is the physical state where all the internal organs of the body as well as the other bodily systems operate at an optimal level, remains intact.

The body balances the heat that is produced while working out by losing similar amount of heat through the skin's surface. It is carried out by the blood vessels near the surface of the skin that dissipate heat, and hence, the loss of heat is achieved by the increase in skin's blood flow.

In a nutshell, we can say that, while exercising, heart beats quite rapidly so as to pump blood from the muscles to the skin where the heat can be dispelled. However, once you stop working out, the heart rate will slow down and decrease, and so will the amount of the blood pumped to your skin. As a result, you sweat more as temperature hikes.

No points for guessing, the heart immediately slows down when you stop exercising. This decreases the amount of blood that is pumped to your skin, thus, rising the temperature even higher, resulting in excessive sweat. While exercising, muscles require oxygen to function, and for that to suffice, the body responds more frequently.

This in turn results in increased and forceful heartbeats, and you start breathing more rapidly just to consume more and more oxygen. Exercising closes the pores and builds up excessive heat in the body.

Hypothalamus, which is an area in the brain responsible for temperature regulations and chemical signals from the body, responds to the heat by opening the pores so that you can sweat profusely.

Right after you've stopped exercising, your body's temperature goes above normal as a result of the strenuous workout. However, the temperature comes back to normal after some time.

The effects of exercise on body temperature aren't just limited to during and right after exercise, and last all throughout the day, leading to a healthy lifestyle and a sound sleep. A prompt decrease and increase in the body temperature pace makes you feel active, awake, and pepped up all throughout the day.

What's more, if you're a person who works out during the morning hours, you will not feel drowsy during the evening, the time when you can actually stay awake till late. While stress and depression are a major cause of sleeping ailments, exercising helps you get instant relief from both, thereby, keeping your temperature perfectly normal.

A fluctuating temperature of the body hints that exercising is working in your favor, and that you're leading a healthy and happy lifestyle.

Use your body to feel rejuvenated, fresh, and active. Exercising is a great way to feel alive and healthy. It increases the quality of your sleep, and that is one of the many good consequences on body temperature. Take that big step, and benefit from the many advantages of a normal body temperature.