Legend of his sport and even Olympism, this French athlete has one of the slowest hearts in the world. An extraordinary heart rate.
The heart of a high -level athlete is different from the heart of a “average” person. Some athletes have an adaptation mechanism which, when it is usually pushed to degrees of very high intensity, reduces the frequency of heartbeat.
The logic has that the more you play and have a significant training, the more your heart reacts differently from an unrealing heart. However, in some high -level athletes, additional features exist. Whether very low or very intense, athletes know how to manage and support a whole range of requests. A French legend also has very impressive heart capacities in this area.
Star of the world biathlon, Martin Fourcade has a heart that beats very, very, very slowly. On social networks a few years ago, the Frenchman had published a screenshot with his number of beats per minute, which amounted to only 24 pulses. This is one of the slowest hearts in the world, “his gift of superhero” as he likes to say.
The heart rate of Martin Fourcade is indeed half as high as a heart in very good health that is generally located at 60 beats per minute at rest and up to 80 or 100 BPM for the “normal” average of healthy people. A correct sportsman can drop to 50 beats per minute at rest.
To find an equivalence and even have an even slower figure, you have to go to the side of the apneists who are used to even more specific conditions. One of the big stars, Stéphane Mifsud can even stop breathing for 11 minutes and have a heart at 18 pulses per minute!
According to Philippe Chevalier, a cardiologist from a hospital service in Lyon quoted by Nordic Magazine, people who have a low frequency are those who always have better health (unless detected cardiac anomaly). “Animals with the lowest heart rate are those who live the longest,” even justifies the cardiologist.
Some doctors also explain that you can lower your heart rate quite easily by practicing endurance sports in particular. Weight loss or cigarette stop for those who smoke, can also allow a significant drop in beats.