Endurance Exercise and Longevity – BionicOldGuy

I’ve talked prior to now (right here and right here) in regards to the idea of whether or not there’s a level past which train turns into an excessive amount of of a great factor. Since I’m all the time tempted to push the envelope on this, I made a decision to ask Google Gemini deep analysis to research it for me: Endurance Exercise Volume, Intensity and Human Longevity. It got here up with this report, which is summarized in this podcast derived from the report. It is an fascinating replace. In the previous some research have appeared to point out a “U-shaped curve” of longevity vs train quantity: Exercise reduces all-cause mortality, with the profit rising with extra train, up to a degree. After that, mortality danger will increase once more. This just isn’t born out in meta-analyses of nearly all of research, nonetheless. Instead, all-cause mortality continues to go down irrespective of how a lot you train. But past a sure level, we’re at greater danger of growing sure cardiac abnormalities like Afib or scarring of the guts. This appears to be extra probably for these doing a number of excessive depth coaching.

So should you’re like me and revel in a number of endurance coaching, it’s a good suggestion to observe a system like polarized coaching the place most of your coaching is at straightforward depth, with a minority of exercises at greater depth. Other suggestions are additionally given in the report like probably present process cardiac screening to reduce the danger of cardiac abnormalities. Because I had a heart-valve substitute prior to now I’m underneath the continued care of a heart specialist, and am glad to get periodically screened.