40 Facts about Fitness

40 Facts about FITNESS

Love your Body & Improve Your Life!

1 You would need to drink a quart of milk every day for three to four months to drink as much blood as your pumps in one hour.

2 Tongue print are as unique as fingerprints.

3 Underwater swimming is the only time you should hold your breath while exercising.

4 Your body has approximately 60,000 miles of blood vessels that not only oxygenate the tissues of the body and unburden them of waste, but also exact as stringent regulators of the body's environment.

5 Muscle is 3 times more efficient at burning calories than fat.

6 The human body has more than

1 2 3 4 5 x 130

650 muscles.


8 When you stand up, if you didn't have valves in your veins, all the blood in your body would literally fall downward, filling up your feet and legs.

9 71% of men admit that they should exercise more.

10 The pink under your fingernails is the blood in your capillaries.

11 your heart rests between each beat. Over a normal lifespan, your heart stands still for about 20 years.

12 Forward locomotion such as walking or running is actually the process of losing and catching one's balance.


14 Your brain weighs about 3 pounds,is pinkish gray in color and is about the size of a cauliflower.

15 Drink plenty of water all throughout the day, especially when working out.

16 The human body has 45 miles of nerves.


18 A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute.




22 Your brain receives 100 million nerve messages each second from your senses.


24 A pound of Fat takes 3500 calories to burn.


26 In one day, some 4000 children and teenagers take up smoking.


28 Carry a pair of hand weight as you walk- this will tone your muscles and burn extra calories.



31 If the 300,000,000 tiny air sacs (alveoli) in your lungs could be laid our flat,they would cover a home swimming pool.

32 Each muscle fiber is thinner than a human hair and can support up to 1,000 times its weight.

33 Did you know that for every 1 lb. of muscle you again,your body burns an extra 50 calories/day.

34 Your blood rushes through your arteries with enough pressure to lift a column of blood 5 feet into the air.

35 If you are 25 lbs.overweight, you have nearly 5,000 extra miles of blood vessels through which your heart must pump blood.

36 A muscle moves by contracting and by its motion, you move. As a machine for moving, a muscle is pretty efficient, using about 35-50% of its potential energy.

37 The average person walks 70,000 miles during his lifetime.

38 69% of men consider themselves to be physically fit.

39 Approximately 30.3 percent of children aged 6 to 11 are overweight and 15.3 percent are obese.

40 13% of men actually are physically fit.

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