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When you’re at rest you’re breathing just fast enough to keep your body’s fuel needs met. As soon as you start exerting yourself your muscles need more fuel, so you start breathing faster. The same as how a car engine needs to run faster to speed down the highway than it does to idle in park.
Because you’re body is than working in aerobic mode to provide energy which means that your body needs oxygen to create energy for your exercises/doing.
You’re body tries to get as much oxygen as possible to maintain your exercises as long as possible.
See also citric acid cycle (CAC).
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