Rhonda Patrick· PhD
And maximal cardiac outputs are somewhere around 15 to 20 in an untrained, a moderately trained individual. Elite athletes have maximal cardiac outputs of 40 liters per minute, tremendous.
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And maximal cardiac outputs are somewhere around 15 to 20 in an untrained, a moderately trained individual. Elite athletes have maximal cardiac outputs of 40 liters per minute, tremendous.
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So that's what is the maximum amount of blood and in turn oxygen, or the maximum rate of blood and oxygen that's being pumped out of your heart every minute. And so a typical untrained individual would have a resting cardiac output of about five liters per minute.