Alcohol is a banned substance the in competitive shooting world

Alcohol is a banned substance the in competitive shooting world

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, Day day, day, day, do dude
doo de. Today's fact of the day is about, well,
it's heart rate week. Yes, fact of the day. It's

(00:22):
going on. I've got an interesting fact about what can
lower the heart rate, and thus has been banned. It
has now added to the banned substance lists of shooting
rifle like competitive Sure, I think you're gonna say, do
you remember that game show that they had your heart rate? Yeah,
the hot seat was at yeahgie, I think it was.

(00:48):
And yeah, you had a timer and when your heart
rate when above a certain from the timer went faster.
So you just stay relaxed, and they do things like
set of fire and stuff around you to try to
get hot women and then old men's heart night, old
men's heart rates and people. I was gonna say it
was the early two thousands. Wouldn't surprise me if that. Now,

(01:10):
I know the two of girls aren't doing anything. Calling
the big guns. It's time for that gym beam gud wow.
Get a couple of red bull girls in there, a
couple of already boos ready, so you know how you're
like what you know how when you're playing pool or
darts or and you're just like, I'm just gonna have

(01:30):
a couple of beers, take the edge off, and you
relax a little bit. You find your golden zone. Is
that sweet spot where you're actually good at Paul lowers
the heart rate, Yeah, like nervous about it. Well, that's
why alcohol is banned from shooting because it lowers your
heart rate, and you're like, being able to control your
heart rate is advantageous in like distance shooting because you've

(01:52):
got to be relaxed and you pull the trigger. Yes,
you're gonna go breathing out, surely. It's also so that
you're of sound mind that you don't just sort of
turn it around and this is fun. You're not allowed
to have any alcohol in your system. It's one of
the things they test for at any event, like at

(02:13):
any sort of games, whether the middle any other drugs
that do that and relax you hate them to them,
but for a long time, have a couple of eggs
and then they're like, well done, bulls, and you're like,
you're right, he's fine. So you're not allowed to have
any alcohol in your system at time of testing. Now,

(02:35):
that is because alcohol lowers your blood, lowers your heart rate.
Unless you're Asian? Really you are? You are familiar with
the alcohol flush often called a flush very red a
couple of drinks, very red cheeks. My father in law
gets it, shocking really yeah, hasn't passed it on to
his daughter. I have friends that get that for sure,

(02:58):
that the Asian flyes Asian? Is it that one friend
that goes really okay? Yeah, because they are just East
Asians that have it, But it's predominantly appearing in East Asian.
It's a L D H two hydrogesonius. Oh that's yeah,
of course that's what it is. Show it shows the reaction.
One one of the reactions is the facial flush that

(03:21):
we see, nausea, headaches, and an increased heart rate. Okay,
so this is for a very particular audience. Oh I
don't even know if they listen to the podcast. But
if you are a Chinese representative at the twenty twenty
four paras Olympics in the rifle shooting, they're listening what
else they listening to? Alcohol is not only going to

(03:41):
get your band, it's absolutely not going to help you soever,
because your heart rate's going to have gone up, gone
up crazy also can worsen asthma the reaction. I mean,
it is heart rate week and it does pump up
the heart rate when it lowers everybody else's heart rate.
The lack of the enzyme that can process interesting. So

(04:04):
today's fact of the day is alcohol is a banned
substance in the competitive shooting world