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Heart Facts for Jump Rope for Heart• Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During anaverage lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.• Resting Heart Rateso Canary Heart 1000 beats/minuteo Human Heart 70 beats/minuteo Mouse Heart 700 beats/minuteo Whale Heart 5 beats/minuteo Elephant Heart 25 beats/minute• Your heart weighs about as much as a sneaker• If you could stretch your blood vessels end to end, they would reach around the world 4 times• The heart pumps 5000 to 6000 quarts of blood a day!• Your heart is about the size of your fist• Arteries and Veins carry blood to and from the heart to the rest of your body• Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force yourheart uses to pump blood out to the body. Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard--twice as hard as the leg muscles of a person sprinting.• Feel your pulse by placing two fingers at pulse points on your neck or wrists. The pulse you feelis blood stopping and starting as it moves through your arteries. As a kid, your resting pulsemight range from 90 to 120 beats per minute. As an adult, your pulse rate slows to an averageof 72 beats per minute.• The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose. Capillaries, onthe other hand, are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.• A Tireless, Powerful Muscle, the heart performs enough work in one hour to lift 3,000 pounds(1,400 kilograms)--roughly the weight of a small car--about 1 foot (30 centimeters) off theground.• Blood makes up 1/3 of the body's weight• Did you know that the heart is the first organ to begin functioning during a fetus life?• Did you know that when attempting to locate their heart, most people place their hand on theirleft chest. Actually, your heart is located in the center of your chest between your lungs. Thebottom of the heart is tipped to the left, so you feel more of your heart on your left side of yourchest.• Did you know that the electrocardiograph (ECG) was invented in 1902 by Dutch physiologistWillem Einthoven. This test is still used to evaluate the heart’s rate and rhythm.• Did you know that blood pumped by the heart takes about 20 seconds to circulate throughoutyour entire system?

Heart FactsCongenital heart defects are the most common birth defects and are the number one cause ofdeath during the first year of life. Nearly twice as many children die from congenital heart diseasein the United States each year as die from all forms of childhood cancers combinedEvery hour2 people die from Aids11 people die of accidents62 people die of cancer109 people die of heart diseaseJump Rope facts• Jumping rope is 3 times as beneficial as running, so, “10 minutes of Jumping Rope is equalto 30 minutes of jogging”.• It’s a scientific fact that jumping rope can easily burn over 1200 calories per hour• During the 1700's rope skipping was mainly performed by boys, as the culture of the timedid not encourage girls to be physically active in case they harmed themselves• On October 12, 2006 50,000 children and teachers in primary schools skipped for 30seconds in 335 schools in The Netherlands• On March 24 2006 a mass participation record was set in the United Kingdom and Ireland.7,632 children skipped continuously for three minutes in 85 different locations across thecountry• Guinness World Record for marathon rope-jumping is 27 hours• US record for # of jumps in one minute is Male- Shane Winsor 358 jumps• Female Tori Boggs 367 both done in 2007• The most revolutions of a jump rope "skipped" by a dog in one minute is 63, performed byOlive Oyl• Ashrita Furman from New York, USA, achieved 130,000 skips on a rope in a 24-hourperiod in Badung, Indonesia, on January 23–24, 1999.• A Washington inventor has come up with the perfect piece of exercise equipment Acordless jump-rope! The device consists of two plastic handles with a moving weight insidethat simulates the sound and rhythm of a jump-rope when held in the hands of a jumpingperson.