The heart of cool athletes is sick! All because it has one pathological feature, characteristic of many serious heart diseases. Hypertrophy is a thickening of the muscle wall of the heart (myocardium). In athletes, it occurs compensatorily, so that the heart has more "power". After all, during physical activity, it is necessary to pump much larger volumes of blood. In addition, the volume of the heart chambers itself increases. Therefore, this condition sounds completely as eccentric hypertrophy.