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Breathing
To breath you need lungs! Your lungs are in your chest, and they are so large that they take up most of the space in there. You have two lungs, but they aren't the same size the way your eyes or nostrils are. Instead, the lung on the left side of your body is a bit smaller than the lung on the right. This extra space on the left leaves room for your heart. You can't see your lungs, but it's easy to feel them in action: put your hands on your chest and breathe in very deeply. You will feel your chest getting slightly bigger. Now breathe out the air, and feel your chest return to its regular size. You've just felt the power of your lungs! In a normal breath you only use about 12.5% of your potential lung volume. During a match you need much more oxygen than when you are at rest - hence the more lung volume the more oxygen you inhale into your respiratory system. Top players control their breathing in game where possible. By doing this they learn to breath efficiently and provide the muscles with more oxygen - thus enabling that extra bit of energy to be released at key times during a game. For example on top international midfielder quoted recently that understanding his breathing and learning how to control it during a game has helped to make him a better player. Try these couple of breathing exercises to improve your breathing technique . |
The Heart
Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. Over your lifetime of the average person that equates to 2.5 billion heart beats. In a typical 90 minute match your heart beats about 10,000 times. If you put all the arteries and veins in a human body end to end they would be 10 thousand miles long! The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime. More than enough to fill 3 super tankers. |
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Your Heart Muscle makes up the wall of the heart. During your life it contracts some 70 times per minute pumping 5 litres of blood each minute during rest. In a single day blood travels a total of 12,000 miles around your body. Thats the equivalent of an away match in Singapore! |
Younger players under age 10 often have a maximum heart rate exceeding 210 beats per minute. Compare this to a 20 yeasr old whose maximum heart rate is approximately 195 beats per minute. It is normally brisk and continuous exercise that increases the heart rate - for example when you are training or playing in a match. |
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Muscles When you are training you need to listen to the coach - did you know that there are 9 different muscles in your ears!
Compare this to your mouth - to say even a single word normally requires 70 muscle movements! I say normally because of course mother in laws seem to be able to defy this and talk ad nauseum regardless of the number of muscles required :-) Did you know that every pound of muscle you carry burns 10-20 calories a day simply by existing! Almost half the body's weight is muscle. The muscle mass peak for a boy is typically between ages 18-25. For girls it is typically between the ages of 16-20. You have over 640 active muscles in your body. Your muscles do not grow during exercise. The exercise is the stimulus to the muscles which strengthen in the periods of rest between exercise. Diet is also important in the growth of muscles - protein is the key enabler of muscle growth. |
Feet! There are 26 bones in the human foot! The average adult male foot has 250,000 sweat glands! These produce an average of 50ml of sweat per day (phew - smelly or what!)
Actually sweat and hence smelly feet are a product of sweat mixing with the bacteria on your feet. The moral of the story? - Wash your feet and wash them regularly! |
