We jog to much, its killing us.

Twofold wrote:

Well if you didn't intentionally omit that it was a response to the poster that said, running in excess wasn't exactly healthy, then it would make a lot more sense to a fukhead like yourself.

Please think before you attack.

Well if you weren't so thick that you couldn't realize that response was to MY POST, then you're too stupid to understand my explanation concerning the irrelevance of that asinine comment.

Please disable your internet connection so you don't showcase your stupidity again.

Well here it says 50mpw is pretty damn good. They don't say anything about mortality, but still.

http://nyti.ms/J8alzb

Article cited too.

Where is much? Isn't the easy solution to stop jogging there?

I have said it for some time now that running marathons and half marathons on a regular basis is unhealthy and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to see that it places undue stress on the body. We are not designed for that. So my training program is weights and running/sprinting on alternate days and when I run competitively it is mostly 5Ks. Less stress on the body, no burnout and the training program is fun. I look better too. Because I focus on speed and not so much on distance I retain most of the muscle from my weight training sessions and I'm built more like a sprinter than a reed thin distance runner.

whatev wrote:

If it was actually proved that running too much (over 30 minutes a day) or too hard (tempos, races, etc) would decrease my lifespan by 5 years over jogging automation at exactly 1.75 hours a week at one pace, I would still do the way I want. I really don't run for health reasons to be honest.

You used "proved" which shows you know nothing about science.

A serious problem here is that participants were asked to report this information. Peoples' memories suck. I find it hard to believe that over 35 years that many more people in one group died than in another group. 10,000 v 122?

Also, it appears to the Reuters story that fox just picked up.

Ken Adian wrote:

people that dont live (eat and drink) like americans live 20 more years and their quality of lives is 80% better.

Where did you get that? According to the UN, the US ranks 38th in life expectancy at 78.4 years. Japan is first at 82.6 years. So what people who don't live (eat and drink) like Americans are living 98.2 years?

Racing too much, or running too many highly stressful training runs/distances you aren't adapted to, can cause heart damage.

But "jogging" 2.5 hours a DAY, let alone a week, is the best thing you could do to prolong your life.

How many fat people jog, or even walk over 1 1/2 hours a day?

Anything over 1 1/2 hours and your body will start to find your optimal weight over time.

Just run it at "conversational pace" and increase mileage no more than 10% per week until you hit 1 hour per day. Then move to 10% per month until you hit 2.5 hours a day (if you want).

Well known that Medical researchers and Docs are afraid of admitting just how much exercise per day is optimal for fear of scaring people from starting.

The lesson here is crystal clear. If you happen to participate in a study on the health affects of jogging, don't jog more that 2.5 hours per week over the course of the study or you might die.

The report is bombastic as it makes that says that the mortality correlation for too little - too much jogging comparable to the mortality correlation for too little - too much drinking.

There is no attempt to account for how individuals died. Did they die of heart attacks, car accidents, lung disease, suicide? Suppose Johnny is an excessive jogger. He goes to the gym 6 times a week, jogs on the treadmill for 30 minutes at 12 minutes a mile, then drives to the gas station to get a Snickers and some chocolate milk. He pulls out of the gas station while glugging down his milk and BAM, Johnny gets t-boned and dies. Dang Johnny, you shouldn\\\'t have jogged so much.

Tons of confounding variables in the study.

For example, are those who jog over 2.5 hours per week more likely to die because excessive training is harmful?

Or are they more likely to die because they are more likely to suffer from eating disorders and other obsessive behaviors associated with intensive exercise?

ankle injury wrote:

The report is bombastic as it makes that says that the mortality correlation for too little - too much jogging comparable to the mortality correlation for too little - too much drinking.

I'm pretty sure that if I jogged 2.5 hours a day, I'd get hit by cars a lot more frequently :D

And by the way, running does increase life expectancy a bit. The greatest thing it brings though is delaying onset of disability, 16 years later when running about 2.5h a week (not days). It compresses all bad stuff to right before we are supposed to die.