I heard Indurain had a big beer belly because his lungs were so large that his organs got pushed down his abdomen.
Also on the rumour front. Ive heard some professional cyclists have blood so thick that they sleep with heart monitors on so if their heart rate drops too low they are woken up.They then have to perform exercise to bring the rate up again. If this really is caused by "thick blood" how would that effect their freediving? Could their heart rate drop too low while diving? At depth the blood thickens doesn't it? If so this could also cause problems.
After hard runs trainers would always get us to hold our breath. This seemed to reduce heart rate and allow more rapid recovery. Could this be related to the static increase after exercise effect?
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