Wait a minute...wasn't there a cardiologist at the height of the running boom who claimed that nobody who can finish a marathon will suffer a heart attack? (Really! A major idiot and egomaniac!)
In that case, I'm good to go for many more marathons, despite my 3 packs of unfiltered Camels a day and lots of red meat and foods high in fat in my diet. I just love that gristle with my steak!
I think that the cardiologist that you referred to was Dr Kenneth Cooper, who’s book “Aerobics” was credited as being one of the main things responsible for the running boom.
Since then Dr Cooper ( in his 90’s I believe, and still exercising…moderately… and has done so for decades) has revised his views after observations he made on hard training athletes and the various maladies that they were coming down with. He has been quoted as saying ( and I paraphrase here) that if you are running for more than FIFTEEN miles per week, then you are doing so for reasons other than your health. This is after the decades of observations taken by his Cooper clinical testing / health centre in Texas. A rather sobering, yet contradictory point of view for all those people on here who try to justify 80+ mile weeks for health reasons. It’s not, and never has been. It’s purely vanity and ego and a chance to beat your rival at the local 5K.
No. It was thomas Bossler? who ran a cardiac rehab program in Honolulu. Maybebit was Bessler?
I think that the cardiologist that you referred to was Dr Kenneth Cooper, who’s book “Aerobics” was credited as being one of the main things responsible for the running boom.
Since then Dr Cooper ( in his 90’s I believe, and still exercising…moderately… and has done so for decades) has revised his views after observations he made on hard training athletes and the various maladies that they were coming down with. He has been quoted as saying ( and I paraphrase here) that if you are running for more than FIFTEEN miles per week, then you are doing so for reasons other than your health. This is after the decades of observations taken by his Cooper clinical testing / health centre in Texas. A rather sobering, yet contradictory point of view for all those people on here who try to justify 80+ mile weeks for health reasons. It’s not, and never has been. It’s purely vanity and ego and a chance to beat your rival at the local 5K.
No. It was thomas Bossler? who ran a cardiac rehab program in Honolulu. Maybebit was Bessler?
Tom Bassler. He lived to age 79. He also drank beer during marathons
Hey. Run the way you want. But I’m often perplexed by this kind of exchange:
1. someone states something like “moderate resistance exercise 4 times /week, paired with a mix of moderate running and walking each day for a total 3-4 hours/week, is more healthful than hard endurance training in excess of 4 hours/week.
2. someone replies, “yeah but my hard endurance training is more healthful than being the average couch potato.”
Indeed. I find it much more useful to reply that you're simply wrong. There is no evidence that training beyond 3-4 hours of moderate exercise a week is more hazardous. You're just making up nonsense here. Show us the increased mortality rates or be quiet.
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