Dr. Andy Galpin

Again, that's the highest I've ever seen in terms of cardiac output.

Perhaps there's some conditioning and endurance coaches out there that have seen higher, but that's phenomenally high.

In fact, again, many of the best performing endurance athletes ever are still in 40, 42 liters per minute.

And so Oscar would have had to, again, be able to get at least up to 200 beats per minute.

And if not, if he could only say get to 190, his stroke volume would have had to be even higher than 225.

What that functionally represents for those, you know, not familiar with the metric system, 45 liters per minute is just under 12 gallons of blood pumped per minute throughout your body.

I'll say that one more time.

12 gallons of blood being pumped throughout your entire body every single minute.

Another way to think about that, that 225 milliliters is around 7.5, 7.6 ounces.

So if we go back to earlier, remember when I said you're kicking out something like under three ounces per contraction?

Now you've over doubled that number.

So you're giving half a bottle of water out per pump, but you're pumping three times per second.

Remember, your heart rate's no longer at 60 beats per minute, as in one beat per second.

It's over triple that.

So you're beating 3.3 or so times per minute.

So you're not getting out 7.6 ounces per second.

You're getting that out per pump.

But what you're really getting out is closer to like 25 or 26 ounces per second.

A general water bottle is 12 to 16 ounces.

A large one is 20.