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Formula One drivers race sitting down.
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They're driving, after all.
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So why do they have to work out like this?
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Driving an F1 car requires incredible cardio ability, stamina, and a shocking amount of strength.
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Every driver would qualify for the National Hockey League.
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They would all qualify for the Apollo Space Program, which is pretty amazing.
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A lot of people assume that winning an F1 race is just about having the fastest car.
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But the physics of driving an F1 car put massive demands on the human body.
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Every lap, the car is trying to pull their head sideways, slam them forward, and cook them inside a cockpit that can be over 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
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If you or I did it, it would be life-threatening, as in we would probably pass out, you know, faint, and have a crash.
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And if the driver can't withstand those forces for an entire race, they just can't win.
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So I wanted to see what F1 drivers do to train their bodies to withstand those kinds of physics.
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Since F1 is such an international sport, there aren't many specialized trainers in the US.
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So with the help of Pete McKnight, an F1 performance expert currently based in the United Arab Emirates, I'll be working out with David Dunlop.
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David works with NFL players and told me
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that the training regimen for F1 drivers isn't actually that different than what football players do.
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With Formula 1 training, we're still looking to get them generally physically prepped the the same way we would with most other athletes.
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I can train an F1 driver, I can train an NFL player, and 80% of the things can be the same.
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Formula One drivers are strong guys because they have to work their full body to be generally athletic.
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But what really sets F1 drivers apart from other athletes is their neck strength.
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An F1 car is under pressure that you never experienced while just driving around the block.
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They're driving around really tight corners at really high speeds.
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Let's take turn one at Suzuka, the F1 course in Japan.
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When an F1 car rounds that turn, it generates centrifugal force, pushing sideways and outwards.
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On this turn, drivers are experiencing 5 Gs of force, meaning five times the normal force of gravity.
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So a driver's head, which weighs an average of 11 pounds, feels like it weighs 55.
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So as you go around the corner, you need to work against the force that is kind of trying to throw your head and neck out outwards.
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And the importance is you need to keep your head in a neutral position because by moving your head, it changes your vision and your line of sight, which changes your racing line.
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And that could impact their speed or even cause them to crash.
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Resist, resist, resist.
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Keep fighting, keep fighting, keep fighting.
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We usually don't isolate the neck that much, even in football.
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That's because we can usually get the traps in the other neck muscles by doing heavy compound movements like deadlifts, shoulder movements, overhead, any sort of thing like that.
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When it comes to F1, we're trying to keep their relative body size small so
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that they can fit in the car and weigh as little as possible, while still giving them the best chance for their body to withstand the G-forces that are common in F1.
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For context, I'm struggling to lift 10 pounds here.
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An F1 driver can do a lot more than that.
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On average, these guys can lift about 90 pounds.
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And these guys are not big guys.
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They're like 5'7 to maximum 6''.
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If you're bigger than that, you can't fit in the car.
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They weigh about 170 pounds, but they've got the neck strength of like a rugby prop forward or a lineman in football.
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Building the strength to withstand 5Gs of force is just one part of racing.
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To survive in the cockpit, drivers need cardiovascular endurance as well.
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In general, a driver's training would be made up of two-thirds cardiovascular training and one-third strength training.
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Roughly, despite the fact that you're sat there in a seat, kind of strapped in, your heart rate is elevated for the whole duration of the race,
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and the race lasts between 90 minutes and two hours.
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They end up burning about 1500 calories in a single race.
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That's roughly the equivalent of what you burn while running a half marathon.
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And that comes from a few different areas.
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It comes from the danger of the sport, that cognitive demand of having to be zoned in
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and concentrating the whole time because you're driving super quick
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and there's 21 other cars on the track and there's a high level of jeopardy.
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If something goes wrong you're in trouble.
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And while this mental strain builds, their body is also heating up.
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Our data indicates that probably the primary stressor placed on drivers is heat.
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So when drivers race, they wear a fire protective suit, which is great because it protects them in the event of a fire,
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but it is so it actually inhibits their themselves through the pr evaporation, which means inside a cockpit,
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which c from 100 to 130 degrees F get very hot.
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Drivers are these temperatures becaus exercise they do when you and you're exercising,
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your heart rate will go up.
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So it's taking blood from your core that is hot and put it into your extremities, like your arms, your skin, to help cool yourself.
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One way of measuring cardio fitness is called VO2 max, which refers to the amount of oxygen your body can use during exercise.
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The higher your VO2 max, the more efficiently your heart, lungs, and muscles work.
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So if you have a higher VO2 max, you will also have a higher heat tolerance, So you can cool yourself and you can do the work to drive the car.
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So that's why most professional race car drivers have a VO2 max somewhere between 60 and 72 milliliters per kilogram per minute,
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which is very similar to elite level cyclists, runners.
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It's getting borderline Olympic athlete level, which is very cool.
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And then right before a race, F1 drivers practice their reflexes to be able to make those split-second decisions while driving over 160 miles per hour.
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Okay, so I'm not going to give you any sort of heads up here.
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Oh, so I have to imagine that it's 130 degrees.
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I've been driving for two hours and I have to be able to react this quick.
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Yep, exactly.
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Okay, great.
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I didn't crash the car, I think.
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This video is presented by the Ford Motor Company.
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Ford has been studying the brutal physics of F1 for decades.
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From 1967 to 2004, the Ford Cosworth DFV engine won 176 races,
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and every one of those victories led to insights that were implemented directly into the cars everyday drivers take on the road.
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After a 22-year break, Ford is back in F1, because they know true capability is proven in the extremes.
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To build better cars, Ford tests them on the most demanding circuit in the world.
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Check the link in the description to learn more about Ford's latest lineup of vehicles.
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Now Ford didn't have any editorial input on the content of this video, but their support does make videos like this possible.
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Race day impacts drivers in ways even the best training can't prepare them for.
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Normally, they will lose somewhere between 4 and 6 pounds of sweat.
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In some cases, that's over 2 to 3 percent of your body mass.
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The American College of Sports Medicine says if you've lost that much, you're in trouble.
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That sounds dangerous.
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It is.
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dehydration builds, cognitive performance can decline.
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As you get dehydrated, you're losing electrolytes, you're losing blood volume, and that will reduce blood flow to the brain.
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As your core temperature heats up, your ability to respond correctly and fastly is compromised.
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And this is why we say that heat is the greatest threat to drivers.
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It just drained.
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Get out of the car and you are empty.
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You've got nothing left to give.
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The overall exhaustion is something that's hard to quantify, but you've got to remember these guys have been driving like 10 or 15 years,
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they're very well conditioned to the heat, they've been driving in hot countries and hot conditions, although there have been occasions where they've got out of the car and they've collapsed,
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we haven't recorded any instances of people passing out behind the wheel and there being a bad crash because of that.
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F1 can look effortless.
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Fast cars, champagne, and races are some of the most glamorous events in the world.
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But underneath that is a constant fight against physics.
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Every lap demands strength, endurance, focus, and the ability to do all of that while your body is literally being pulled in multiple directions at once.
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In a way, an F1 driver's job is keeping the laws of physics from winning.
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I think there's a reason why there are only 20 Formula 1 drivers in the world, because there's probably only that number that can actually do it.
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