"Superman"

Some elite long-distance runners and cyclists had resting heart rates as low as 30 beats per minute, an utterly outrageous figure for ordinary people.

This figure also gave rise to a question many people debated: the heart's endurance was relatively fixed and limited.

During competitions, professional long-distance runners and cyclists maintained heart rates around 140 for extended periods, perhaps even surging into the 180 range under extreme circumstances.

Thus, some people believed those athletes were trading their lifespans for results—that the more a person exercised, the more they depleted their already limited lifespan.

This conclusion also gave lazy people who could not stick to exercising a sufficiently convincing excuse not to work out.

But was that really true?

While researching plant genetics and human genetic information, Maya Hansen had collected data on the heart rates, health, and lifespans of many professional and even world-class long-distance runners and cyclists, comparing them with ordinary people who had never developed exercise habits.

The conclusion was that, whether in terms of physical health or eventual lifespan before natural death, professional athletes often held an advantage over ordinary people.

Compared with ordinary people, they could live longer and possessed healthier bodies. Throughout their lives, apart from training-related accidents, they often remained in the ideal state of being free from illness and disaster.

And the Root of this lay in the fact that professional athletes' heart rates during training and competition were often far higher than those of ordinary people doing non-physical labor. Yet even the greatest athletes did not spend their entire days training.

Truly professional athletes capable of achieving excellent results usually balanced work and rest in their training, along with sufficient sleep, healthy diets, and regular routines.

So, during periods of rest outside training or competition, the resting heart rates they needed to