The heart is a wonderful muscle. Your body needs blood that is rich in nutrients and oxygen to stay alive. This fist-sized powerhouse beats 100,000 times per day, pumping about 2,000 gallons of blood per day, or five to six quarts per minute. For the sake of your heart’s health, it’s crucial to learn everything there is to know about it. Please keep reading for more details if you’re curious about the heartbeat.

Where Is Your Heart

The heart is situated between your lungs, just to the left of the sternum, and under the rib cage.

The heart is a muscular organ, as can be seen by looking at the outside of it. Blood is pumped to the rest of the body by contraction (squeezing) of the strong muscular walls. The coronary arteries on the outside of the heart carry oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle.

The pulmonary veins, inferior vena cava, and superior vena cava are the three main blood vessels that enter the heart. The pulmonary artery leaves the heart and travels to the lungs to carry blood deficient in oxygen.

With its exit, the aorta supplies the rest of the body with blood that is enriched in oxygen.

The heart has four hollow chambers on the inside. A muscular wall known as the septum separates it into the left and right sides.

Two top chambers called the atria, which receive blood from the veins, and two bottom chambers called ventricles, which pump blood into the arteries, further dividing the right and left sides of the heart.

Together, the ventricles and atria contract and relax to pump blood from the heart. A valve is passed through by the blood as it leaves each heart chamber. There are four heart valves within the heart:

• Mitral valve
• Tricuspid valve
• Aortic valve
• Pulmonic valve

Atria and ventricles are separated by the tricuspid and mitral valves. Between the ventricles and the main blood vessels leaving the heart are the aortic and pulmonic valves.

Similar to one-way valves in your home’s plumbing, the heart valves function in the same way. They stop blood from flowing the wrong way.

A set of flaps known as leaflets or cusps are present on each valve. Two leaflets make up the mitral valve while the other valves have three. The annulus is a ring of hard, fibrous tissue that surrounds and supports the leaflets. The valve’s proper shape is maintained by the annulus.

In addition, strong, fibrous cords known as chordae tendineae support the mitral and tricuspid valve leaflets. These resemble the ropes that hold a parachute in place.

The papillary muscles, which are a small type of muscle that are a part of the interior walls of the ventricles, are connected to them by the valve leaflets.

How Many Times Does Your Heart Beat Per Day

60–100 heartbeats in one minute are normal, but it is not so simple. On the one hand, our resting state is the reference value. For instance, when we run, our heartbeat needs to be higher than this. When our heartbeat cannot increase while we are running, something is wrong.

Our heartbeat can reach 230 beats per minute while exercising. The ideal heart rate during sleep, or deep sleep, can be as low as 40 beats per minute. As a result, we cannot merely state that our heartbeat is within the normal range of 60 to 100.

Our heartbeat should be either fast or slow, and that is normal. When sleeping, it might be 50 times slower than when running, for instance.

How Your Heart Works

Your heart contracts, then relax, pumping blood throughout the body. Similar to clenching and unclenching your fist, this action. Blood is forced through your arteries with each heartbeat. You get your pulse because of this.

• Your body’s muscles, organs, brain, and heart pump blood depleted of oxygen into the right atrium. The right atrium fills to capacity and contracts. The tricuspid valve between the right atrium and the right ventricle opens as the atrium contracts. The right ventricle is where the blood enters.
• When the right ventricle is full it contracts and pumps the blood to the lungs through the pulmonary valve
• Fresh oxygen is added to the blood while carbon dioxide is expelled into the lungs. Now the blood is full of oxygen. The left atrium then receives blood that is rich in oxygen.
• The mitral valve between the left atrium and left ventricle opens as the left atrium contracts. Blood enters the left ventricle.
• The aortic valve in the aorta allows the left ventricle to send oxygen-rich blood to the rest of your body.
• Your body’s circulatory system carries oxygen-rich blood everywhere. The body with low oxygen content is returned to the right atrium by veins. Blood that lacks oxygen fills the right atrium. Repetition of the cycle.

Heart Rate

Between 60 and 100 beats per minute is the typical resting heart rate. Because your body needs to pump more oxygenated blood to your cells during exercise, your heart rate rises.

Your heart will beat at least 4,560 times in an hour and 109,440 times per day if your average resting heart rate is 76 BPM.

Wow, did you know that your heart pumps so vigorously? Let’s continue: your heart will beat at least 39,945,600 times in a year, and it could beat at least 3,195,648,000 times in an average lifespan of 80 years.

You might have a significantly lower heart rate if you’re in the excellent physical condition and an athlete. Some athletes have a resting heart rate of just 40 BPM. Your cardiovascular system’s performance is what determines all of this.

Several variables affect how effective your cardiovascular system is. Your stroke volume is one indicator of your efficiency. Per heartbeat, this amount of blood is pumped.

The stroke volume of professional athletes is larger than that of the “average” person, which pumps more oxygen into your body.