Birds and Heart Beats
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plateaued
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Read a story recently that measured the duration of the lives of birds. The story concluded that birds have a fixed (within a range) number of heartbeats in their lives. They can't outlive the range.
If that's true of humans, is anyone worried?
If that's true of humans, is anyone worried?
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Why would I worry? If that was true the 22 hours a day I spend at 50 BPM more than offsets the ~2 hours at an evlated HR.0
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I guess these guys, who noticed that excessive running reduces longevity, didn't read about the birds:
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/Too-Much-Running-Tied-to-Shorter-Lifespan-Studies-Find-253393191.html?ref=191
When the reduced heart-rate benefit is overcome by excessive running, then you hit the life-time limit . . . just like the birdies.
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Having a long life has never been my goal. Having a happy life has. I'll take the short term benefits running gives me now rather than worry about the potential long term risks.0
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Why would I worry? If that was true the 22 hours a day I spend at 50 BPM more than offsets the ~2 hours at an evlated HR.
So true!0 -
Oh look, a bus!0
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Birds can also fly cross-country without carb loading0
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Oh look, a bus!
My thoughts exactly!0 -
I've also seen birds mysteriously faceplant into the ground right before me. I guess they must have been doing speed work.0
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I've also seen birds mysteriously faceplant into the ground right before me. I guess they must have been doing speed work.
Their aerobic base clearly didn't support it0
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