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OXYGEN DEBT
What Oxygen Debt is Not
Oxygen Debt is not part of the Environmental Protection Agency's plan for carbon credit of dealing with companies that contribute to much pollution. Nor is Oxygen Debt part of the cap and trade effort by the current white house administration to change our dependency on carbon fuels. Oxygen Debt has nothing to do the larger environment and our consumption of oil products or global warming.

What is Oxygen Debt
Oxygen debt is something that all of experience but probably something are unaware when they have experienced it and what caused it. Oxygen Debt is the additional oxygen that must be taken into the body after exercise to restore all systems to their normal states. If you have ever been working out or exercising and at the end you are done running, biking or swimming, but you are still breathing very heavily trying to get more oxygen into your body, that is oxygen debt. Your body is trying to restore oxygen levels to the appropriate level for all of your body systems to function, but a Oxygen Debt has caused extremely low levels and that causes you to gasp for air even though you are done exercising. The Oxygen Debt is specifically caused by the build up of lactic acid in the muscles caused by repetitive strain on the muscles during the exercise.

How to Deal with Oxygen Debt
Solving Oxygen Debt is best by taking preventive steps to the build up of lactic acid. Several diffent steps can be taken to reduce the size of our oxygen debt. The first step is to develop limits and guidelines to the amount and length of exercise. Oxygen Debt can be impacted by the length of aerobic exercise, the strenousness of aerobic workout, the amount of weight lifted, or the number or repetitions in weight lifting. If you know before hand what is the appropriate exercise to prevent over buildup of lactic acid, Oxygen Debt can be controlled without feeling of guilt. The second step in changing our Oxygen Debt is to change your diet, appropriate hydration before and during a workout is the first way to change our bodies way to handle Oxygen Debt. We can also participate by changing what we eat on a regular basis. Eating in away that maximizes our liver and kidney function as well as our colon will increase our bodies effectiveness at dealing with Oxygen Debt.