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How Exercise Works

Training Your Body

Your body can get more out of exercise and can exercise more easily with training. Athletes spend a great deal of time training. It allows the body to adapt its basic response to exercise and to improve athletic performance. Training can:

  • make your muscles perform better
  • match what you eat with what your body will use in energy
  • improve the efficiency of oxygen delivery to working muscle
  • get you used to the competition environment

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