LONDON, England -- Formula One drivers spend a lot of time talking about the gym and going jogging. Toyota's Timo Glock has to spend a lot of time in the gym to be fit enough to race. Even when they're on holiday there is a gym close at hand -- in fact many list fitness as a hobby, which is a little on the sad side. However, they're exercise obsessed for a good reason: without being in peak fitness they would not be able to handle the stresses of driving a Formula One car at 350kmh. It's perhaps the one situation where sitting down for up to two hours is actually very, very tiring.
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Formula One drivers' hearts beat up to 190 times a minute during races
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Heart rate is above most other athletes, making aerobic fitness very important
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Drivers have to deal with forces of up to 5Gs during races
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