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Have you ever wondered how many heartbeats an average person has in their lifetime? What about for cats or dogs or other animals? Turns out because of metabolic rates and size of different species, each animal gets around a billion beats.
Around being the operative word, of course. Humans and chickens are outliers in that we get 2.21 billion and chicken gets 2.17 billiion beats (I wonder how many actually see that much). But a lot of other animals teeter the 1 billion line: horses, pigs, rabbits, elephants, cats, whales, etc. Animals big or small, fat or strong, fast or slow—it seems like there is a magic number for us all. Other than small dogs. They got the short end of the stick.
[Kottke, Image via Djordje Radivojevic/Shutterstock]
So when I exercise I use up my heartbeast faster?! :O I shall spent the rest of my life sat on my sofa watching unexciting tv so my heartrate stays low!
first post here! probably not a great idea.. people who partake in physical activity will have a lower resting heart rate, never mind the health benefits of living an active lifestyle!
Forgot the /sarcasm
I’ve been doing that Shaun T Insanity thing but I’ve not seen any weight loss cause it just makes me eat more lol.
I’m in month two and I weight the same. But my body shape has completely changed…
I should have taken some before/after resting heart rate statistics etc.
Do large dogs really live for 17 years?