Sometimes trivia is a fun way to learn more about health and exercise, or at the very least impress your friends at parties. Anyway, here are some fun tid-bits on fitness:
- It takes 70 muscles to speak a single word.
- People who are physically inactive can lose as much as 3% to 5% of their muscle mass per decade after age 30.
- It can take about 200,000 frowns to make a permanent wrinkle.
- Eating spicy foods an hour or two before you workout has been shown to increase your metabolism.
- People in Sweden refer to interval training as fartlek, which means “speed play.”
- On average, every minute you walk extends your life by one and a half to two minutes.
- Your heart beats approximately 100,000 times per day. That means that in just 10 days, your heart beats one million times.
- The number of fat cells in your body is determined at birth. A gain in bodyfat does not increase the number of fat cells, but rather the size of the existing fat cells.
- Your Brain is 2% of your body weight, yet uses 20% of the oxygen.
- On average, you breathe 700 gallons of air per hour.
- A normal sized heart weighs about the same amount as a softball.
