Separate studies by German and Swedish researchers found that extremely intense physical activity every week could actually be more harmful than helpful for some people with a history of heart conditions
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Separate studies by German and Swedish researchers found that extremely intense physical activity every week could actually be more harmful than helpful for some people with a history of heart conditions
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Regular intensive exercise can slow the heart to risky levels, scientists warn. - New Zealand Herald
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The links between advancing age and deaths during gruelling exercise are strengthening.
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I think it’s going to be a slow process, but ultimately, the truth prevails. Runners will find they don’t need to drink as much as they thought they did. Performances are actually improved when they drink to thirst and they don’t become waterlogged because they overdrank. I don’t know what industry is going to do. I don’t know if they’re going to completely ignore it, and continue on their merry way, promoting overdrinking. Or they might just attack me, but I don’t think that’s a really good way to go about it, because that will just draw more attention to it and more people will read the facts and more people will realize where the truth lies.
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Dr. Tim Noakes discusses his new book, "Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports"
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Hamish Carter is the latest in a series of elite endurance athletes to have encountered heart problems. An electrical charge was recently used to shock it back into normal rhythm.
Now emerging scientific studies are finding evidence that appears to support that. "Running too fast, too far and for too many years may speed one's progress towards the finish line of life," concluded a December editorial in British journal, Heart.
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Almost immediately after enduring a new, intense workout on a Tuesday afternoon last March, Kelly Becker began to understand that she and her Ohio State women’s lacrosse teammates had not performed just another conditioning drill.
Another sad example of too intense training causing damage to athletes through Rhabdomyolysis. The list of incidents at the bottom of this article is sobering reading. All trainers, coaches and athletes should be aware of the dangers and the signs of Rhabdomyolysis to prevent this happening again.
Rhabdo wird in einschlägigen Foren auch immer wieder mit CrossFit in Verbindung gebracht. Es ist sicher kein CrossFit Spezifikum, aber tritt dort wegen der hohen Intensitäten wohl doch so häufig auf, dass auch in CrossFit wohlgesonnenen Medien und Foren von Zeit zu Zeit darüber berichtet wird.
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The long bouts of hard exercise done by triathletes and marathon runners may be trimming years off their lives by causing tiny tears within their hearts, emerging research suggests...
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At the other extreme, hyponatremia is a dangerous and potentially fatal condition generally caused by drinking too much water. And, while it is unlikely to be an issue during your regular 5-10 kilometre workout, it can be a problem in longer sessions like a marathon.
Diversi's advice to avoid the risk of hyponatremia is to drink "from thirst" while running and ensure you hydrate properly afterwards.
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In most every part of modern life - in how much we eat, sleep, work and play - moderation is the mantra.
And in recent years, that mantra has extended to exercise. Science is increasingly telling us that we need to work out only a few hours a week to fight heart disease and cancer and ageing in general. For instance, researchers say, just 16 or 24 kilometres of easy running could add years to our lives.