The Claim
Endurance athletes exhibit higher stroke volumes than non-athletes during exercise under conditions of severely reduced diastolic filling time.
What the research says
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During exercise, trained endurance athletes have a greater volume of blood pumped per heartbeat than untrained individuals, even when the heart has less time to fill with blood between beats.
See the scientific wording
Endurance athletes maintain higher stroke volumes than non-athletes during exercise, even when diastolic filling time is severely reduced.
The heart of an endurance athlete becomes larger and more elastic, allowing it to fill with more blood between beats even when the time between beats is very short. This extra blood stretches the heart muscle, making it contract more forcefully with each beat, so it pumps out more blood per beat. The heart also relaxes faster after each contraction, which helps it fill more quickly. This combination lets the heart maintain a high output even when beating very fast.
What the research says
2 studiesStudy: A race against time: timing constraints of cardiac filling and athletic performance.
Trained endurance athletes have hearts that pump more blood with each beat than untrained people, even when their hearts are beating so fast they have less time to fill up with blood. Their hearts are just better at squeezing out more blood quickly.
Trained athletes can pump more blood per heartbeat even when their heart has less time to fill up, because their hearts are stronger and stretch better to squeeze out more blood.
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