Endurance Exercise Can Damage Your Heart

Lazy excuses

Cyclists and marathon runners all have heart issues in their 50s, often earlier. It doesn't take a genius with a PhD or reading many books to figure that out, it's an easily observable phenomenon.

You can't improve your heart.
High intensity cardio is always going to stress your heart. You wasted your time exercising and damaging your body and you will never get that time and increase lifespan ever again. Sorry.

Wtf we cant even run now

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Can Cardiomegaly be reversed with (possibly extreme) fasting?

Ran 33 miles and a day later I had edema( swollen legs calf down), elevated legs during sleep and got rid of swollen legs for the most part, but woke up with irregular heart rhythm

Why does the human body suck so bad? : (

How is it thst everything you know to be good gets contested these days! Like just how, oats is bad, jaggery is bad, fat is bad, fat is good ..ughhh!

At this point I’m not working out🤷🏾‍♀️

Yeah and don’t forget loosing bone density as well .. pro cycling teams are regularly tested for osteoporosis .. in their 20’s no less!

Hi Dr. Eric Berg, is this still a risk if you are an endurance athlete who splita his workout in intervals, i run 4 miles everyday but split it into intervals every .5 mile same with my cycling i cycle 17 miles a day but break it down into 3 mile intervals is this still a risk?

Moral of the story

- Live life in moderation

Be it in diet or exercise or any other aspect and you will live long and happy.

According to whose statistics? I know plenty of ppl who are workout freaks exercising for hours on end & still functioning fine 🤷🏾‍♂️ plus everyone's bodies aren't wired the same so

The key to long healthy life is exercise in moderation, stay active consistently.

I was diagnosed with an enlarged heart, higher left ventricle voltage, thickened wall. I do have arrythmias and such. Been exercising all my life. Only 27. Maybe ill die early.

Nice

Coach Greg going harder than last time on the bike...

I jog everyday. 1-3 miles. It’s a must because I’m a truck driver and I might sit 11 hours a day..

He's referring to marathon runners though, not regular gym goers who jog 3 times a week for a half hour

Yo I know this I just want to know what exercises to do so my heart doesn't die when I run my heart rate goes to 200 even when I'm slow

So how much exercise should we do a week ? I’m lost by this lol

Dr. Berg misses some important endurance training points. 80-85% of training done by endurance athletes are zone 2 or low intensity training. Just research Dr. Phil Maffetone and Dr. Stephen Seiler. Yes there are training blocks that are high intensity but that makes up 15-20% of the training volume of endurance athletes. You need to do both long, sustained exercise and short, high intensity efforts to build a well-rounded heart. Both have different physiological adaptations. You also have to take into account rest days and even a week or two so the body can get back into homeostasis.

Aren't we an endurance species? Hunting animals over distance

I always knew this. I felt it... I never met a 100 year old runner. Ever! All the centurians I've met always believed in GOD and they never took medication!

I personally felt emotional worry and heartbreak are far more dangerous to heart

That’s why Sprinting is better than long distance running

I do about 1 hour of comfortable but pace 3-4 times a week and lift three times 20 min a week. Is that okay?

I used to run a lot and lift weights in my 20s.. lost about 40lbs . But then I started having chest pain when I ran and my heart rate was at 40bpm resting. I'm in my 30s now and I was diagnosed with AV heart block type 1(dropped heart beat) and my resting heart rate is 48-50bpm and 30bpm when I sleep. I see a cardiologist and electrophysiologist (rhythm specialist). Apparently I don't need a pace maker. But I realize in my 30s I don't need to do all that. Maybe just steady state cardio like a brisk walking. Not making the heart work so hard ya know ?

just tell that to Goggins who also had heart problems

So is an hour of exercise a day bad for you? Sorry I’m confused.

This is good information but doesn't apply to 99.9% of the population. Stick with 150 minutes a week...

Great video. What other endurance sports would be at risk?

Hi Dr I'm 27 year old when I run for 3 minutes my heart go of like crazy to the point I can't breathe I can't Play any games sometime during the day I can't do much activity I get mad at myself I'm 27 why tis happen to me and sorry for my English

I don’t get why professionals didn’t realize this sooner. Of course too much running is bad for you. Look at what running is from an evolutionary standpoint - something we’re only supposed to be doing occasionally as needed to escape from danger. The rest of the time, we’re meant to work moderately between conserving our energy. What kind of crazy being would actually CHOOSE to force themselves to run? It’s the worst form of exercise. Not only for how it can damage your heart, but how it damages your joints, adrenals, etc. Our bodies are obviously not made for it at the levels people push themselves for.

Right we came from the caveman and the Neanderthal DNA is not you didn't get running runners of caveman they weren't chasing after pray their hunters they they hunted intelligently setting traps or do it means of capturing pray not by chasing down pray all day long this would cause damage to the body yeah we have to go by evidence of your DNA and we came from primordial man that caveman we came from the neanderthal and this is we ate meat we ate nuts berries the tip we ate a diet which was rich in protein and these prehistoric man was muscular it was very strong because he lifted things not because he was an endurance runner these people are way too thin I can't find a caveman that thin there's no evidence of that

Right you're getting in large heart you're getting right ventricle it gets bigger while the left ventric looks smaller all all evidence is showing damage to the heart distance running and high impact running is causing permanent damage to knees your foot ankles throughout these body is damaged permanently

Leaner stronger athletes bigger athletes this is leading to a better health overall athletes are doing weight training resistance training and then doing lighter running this is because this group of three groups tested now extensively group three with the resistance training is definitely way more beneficial and healthy than group a or one which was just long distance running which is showing that people just don't have any muscle in their body so early at all after long distance running even walking person had very little muscle on her body at all this is not good because when you get older you you lose more muscle due to age and your muscles deteriorates for lack of use you should be increasing muscle density doing resistance exercises that increase muscle on the body to lower your basal metabolic rate since you burn more calories while resting than a runner that's a fact

Clinical studies are out now that the right ventricle gets damaged it gets larger also the rejective parts of the neuron the brain are definitely showing symptomatic negative symptoms to negative rejection to long distance running the fact is that the group three of resistance runners who lift weights are living longer less damage the body more musculature and lower basal metabolic rate in other words dieting is not good when you're running because you're diary is not good for you at all in fact you should be eating more calories working out more the weights and then adding light aerobic exercise possibly to your workouts but not extensive long distance running young people have been dying from part failure

Sorry makes no sense, athletes perform certainly more than an hour each day and live 5 years longer (including endurance athletes) than the average American.
What could be the problem is athletes also take care of their bodies in other ways when someone overdoing it in the gym isn't.

I looked under the cover, this book only has a handful of case studies. You can't conclude anything from cherry picking 5 patients from the general population of athletes.

Here's an actual paper that states AF prevalence is higher in athletes.

Recent studies have shown that the prevalence of AF is higher in individuals who are involved in intense short-term training and long-term sports participation compared to general population of the same age

From
Atrial fibrillation in athletes, 2012

It doesn't say how much higher, and notwithstanding athletes live longer.
And as covid sporting incidents has shown if you have something that can cause heart problems then stressing that organ might be not a good idea. Rather than claiming sport causes problems.

Intuitively it is not surprising to me that a small percentage of a professional class could be stressing their bodies beyond limits or letting the body not properly recuperate, in a very competitive setting. I mean it would be surprising to not observe higher mechanical problem cases in the athletes group than the general population.

Started developing an irregular heartbeat after i started doing cardio but not after a full year . Had to cut the cardio by half , seems that problem is fixed now

I don't bother with endurance cardiovascular trainings. BUT I Definitely do hell lot of endurance muscular exercises. Nothing will take that away from me. 0 issues ever and keeps me young...

HALF N HOUR EXERCISE IS GOOD FOR MY BODY N HEART. ITNA KAFI HAI ENOUGH

Concreters are fkd. Probably more average testosterone nothing compared to what it was a few decades ago.

Specially if u are vaccinated.

At least i can die fit 🤸🔥

Um...It's called aging.

How many people do you really think are doing MORE than an hour of endurance exercise 5 days per week, every single week?? Isn't America one of the most obese countries in the world?

Weight lifting and running are excellent exercises for heart if done in moderation. Some people do too much workout. I read so many painful stories of athletes suffering from cardiac problems. Anything in excess is bad. There is a need to spread this message. Thanks to berg for informing people to be careful.

What? So now endurance / high intensity training is bad? @greg Doucette make a video!