Fitness and health are different
wanderinjack
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Great article from the journal of sports medicine.
http://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-016-0048-x
http://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-016-0048-x
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The article agrees with my experience of overtraining. I used to compete in sports and dance, and always thought more was better when it came to training. Now that I take active recovery days, more than once a week, and only train hard 3x a week, I don't get those nagging injuries that won't quite go away.
Nice article, btw!1 -
Rules of thumb I use:
We can neutralize about an hour of oxidative stress, so I limit my exercise sessions to an hour or so.
"Athlete's heart" (exercise-induced cardiomegaly ) is associated with > 3 hours per week of exercise, so I use that as a limit too.2 -
Rules of thumb I use:
We can neutralize about an hour of oxidative stress, so I limit my exercise sessions to an hour or so.
"Athlete's heart" (exercise-induced cardiomegaly ) is associated with > 3 hours per week of exercise, so I use that as a limit too.
Well crap. Do you have some links for that? Do I have to fit cardio AND lifting into that? And does non-exercise activity, and light exercise like walking count?0 -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1767992/
Figure 1 shows that it takes more than three hours of exercise per week to observe changes in heart rate, aerobic power, and left ventricular mass.
Good article on oxidative stress here:
http://www.completehumanperformance.com/exercise-oxidative-stress/
There's some evidence that we can handle more than an hour if trained, but I like to be conservative.
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Seems like I could actually build an enjoyable plan of activities around that model. I like it!1
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1767992/
Figure 1 shows that it takes more than three hours of exercise per week to observe changes in heart rate, aerobic power, and left ventricular mass.
Good article on oxidative stress here:
http://www.completehumanperformance.com/exercise-oxidative-stress/
There's some evidence that we can handle more than an hour if trained, but I like to be conservative.
I'm glad that walking isn't on the oxidative stress list!2
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