Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Extreme exercise and heart health

"Each time the suggestion that too much exercise is harmful makes the news 'it invariably rockets around the cybersphere powered by schadenfreude.'"

As this article in the New Yorker concludes, the jury is still out on how much exercise is too much. However, this medical study of 18000 runners in Copenhagen, "published in theAmerican Journal of Epidemiology, confidently concluded that, when compared to non-joggers, runners lived, on average, five to six years longer." 

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/extreme-exercise-and-the-heart

The evidence suggests that there may be a diminishing return to vigorous exercise, beyond about 45 minutes per day.

And when it come to more extreme forms of exercise, like the marathon, preparation is key: "the degree of detectable damage was lowest, or completely absent, among those who had trained by running more than forty-five miles a week, as opposed to those who ran thirty-five or fewer." 


2 comments:

  1. Your body requirements enough time for it to heal as well as remainder. Nonetheless, once you exercise an excessive amount of people location a fantastic pressure on your own human body, specially on your own muscle tissue as well as ligaments. When you work, frolic in the water, press weights or perhaps stroll you're burning yourself Suffering from too much exercise physically. Overusing yourself physically could lead to muscle mass inflammation and also muscle mass holes [read more]

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  2. Extreme exercise is one which damages your joints.you need positive energy to eat after extreme excerse,so that you may not loss your muscle mass.

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