It's revolting how ignorant some runners are about fitness. They think running is the standard of fitness and that all fitness is measured in terms of distance running ability. Half of these guys will end up fat, inactive and depressed because they get chronically injured and can no longer run to purge all the extra calories they use running as an excuse to consume.
Slow ole runna dude wrote:
http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-bodybuilding-diet-bad-idea.htmlAnd some real evidence
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8450727
Nobody said you should undertake a 'bodybuilding diet' you dolt. The argument is that resistance training is better for you than running, not that anybody needs to eat 5,000 calories a day for good health. As if a 100 mi/week runner couldn't eat the average bodybuilder under the table anyway.
This could possibly be the ONLY thread on letsrun taht everyone agrees on. Original poster, you are an idiot.
"You might suspect from the emphasis on cardiopulmonary fitness that the major effect of training is on the heart and lungs. Guess again. Exercise does nothing for the lungs that has been amply proved...Nor does it especially benefit your heart. Running, no matter what you have been told, primarily trains and conditions the muscles."
-- George Sheehan, MD, Cardiologist
(Known as the "Guru" of running. He has authored several books on running for fitness.)
"Most of the improvement in functional capacity due to exercise is not even directly related to the heart. It is due to an effect on the peripheral muscle cells whereby they more efficiently extract oxygen from the blood."
-- Henry Solomon, MD Cardiologist
(From his book The Exercise Myth, 1984)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, ISBN 0151294585.
Dennis Rogers wrote:
Exercise does nothing for the lungs that has been amply proved...Nor does it especially benefit your heart.
This is why my (our) resting heart rate(s) is/are so much lower than average, then? Because our legs are stronger (while we're sleeping)?
Dennis Rogers wrote:
"You might suspect from the emphasis on cardiopulmonary fitness that the major effect of training is on the heart and lungs. Guess again. Exercise does nothing for the lungs that has been amply proved...Nor does it especially benefit your heart. Running, no matter what you have been told, primarily trains and conditions the muscles."
-- George Sheehan, MD, Cardiologist
(Known as the "Guru" of running. He has authored several books on running for fitness.)
This is demonstrably false. Runners tend to have enlarged hearts and very low heart rate compared to the average person. Since we have the same or greater blood circulation needs as the average person, we must have a higher stroke capacity.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T10-4BW0NJT-C2&_user=10&_coverDate=07/31/1979&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1592693601&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=47c267fb0040d13ad504ad5249564f59&searchtype=aI realized OP was right when I discovered that being able to move heavy furniture for my friends was my highest and best use in life.
That was also when I bought a pickup truck because the average sedan provides very little in the way of benefits when it comes to moving furniture.
One of the problems is anyone can start a web site and be an "expert." Talk to almost all professors in exercise science and they will say that cardiovascular fitness is very related to preventing/postponing heart disease and maintaining a healthy weight.
Running is one method to achieving better cardiovascular fitness. Running fitness transfers to hiking, biking, and to some degree interval based sports like soccer and basketball. Runners will probably still be sore if they play other sports, but having that fitness helps them get up and down the field. If your main goal is health and not running performance, running twice per week, playing an interval based sport twice per week, and lifting twice per week would be a good start. Personally I think static stretching at the end of each workout is good but know many would disagree.
I actually like what they did with the weight lifting equipment on the website. There are some good ideas on improvements to the basic weight machines.
I do weight training three to four times a week and run every day, sometimes twice a day. I hate weight training. I only do it because I am getting old and am entering the use it or lose it phase of my life. Weight training is about as exciting as watching paint in cans sitting on the shelf at the Sherwin Williams store.
I do not understand why muscle heads have to make stupid claims about weight lifting being superior to running. No runner ever claimed the reverse. And it is not like you muscle heads are striking out with the chicks (at least not with the skanks at the club). Just relax muscle heads. Despite what Kenny Powers says, running is a sport and not just exercise. We like to run because it is a sport. That is all.