How Your Bones Change With Exercise

The video explores how exercise impacts bone health, emphasizing the importance of both compressive and tensile forces in maintaining and increasing bone density. It explains bone structure, including compact and spongy bone, and how these adapt to stress. The video also covers the role of osteoblasts and osteoclasts in bone remodeling and provides exercise recommendations to enhance bone health.

Explain the relationship between exercise and bone tissue adaptation.

What happens to bone density when astronauts spend time in a zero gravity environment?

What are the two types of bone tissue mentioned in the text?

How does the shape and orientation of trabeculi relate to the stress on bones?

What types of activities are beneficial for increasing bone density?

How do compressive and tensile forces affect bone structure during exercise?

What is hydroxyapatite and why is it important for bone health?

Discuss the importance of consistency in exercises for bone health.

Describe the role of osteoblasts and osteoclasts in bone remodeling.

What is the impact of estrogen on osteoclast activity?