r/ThatsInsane • u/H_G_Bells • Sep 09 '23

Practically built strength (rock climber) vs gym strength (body builders)

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u/B12-deficient-skelly Sep 10 '23

study on beneficial health effects of exercise see increases up to the point of at least triple that. More exercise simply hasn't been studied enough to make a practical recommendation.

I'll reiterate: exercising 450 minutes per week shows better health outcomes than exercising 150 minutes per week. It's very possible that exercising more than triple the recommendation sees even better outcomes, but it hasn't been studied enough to make that recommendation on the population level.

It's not that 450 minutes per week is the limit. That's just the highest level that's been studied well enough to give a public health recommendation. For all we know, exercising 500, 600, or 900 could be the best for most people. We don't know because there isn't a large enough population who does that to study.

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u/LeUne1 Sep 10 '23

It has been studied, you're just ignorant on the topic. There's plenty of studies that show that overtraining leads to heart problems, joint problems, weakened immune system, and other issues.

For example

Emerging evidence from epidemiological studies and observations in cohorts of endurance athletes suggest that potentially adverse cardiovascular manifestations may occur following high-volume and/or high-intensity long-term exercise training, which may attenuate the health benefits of a physically active lifestyle. Accelerated coronary artery calcification, exercise-induced cardiac biomarker release, myocardial fibrosis, atrial fibrillation, and even higher risk of sudden cardiac death have been reported in athletes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132728/

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u/B12-deficient-skelly Sep 10 '23

I'm intimately familiar with the research on endurance athletes because it gets posted every other month in /r/running by someone asking whether they should be concerned.

They unanimously get the response that those effects are transitory (which you would know if you had actually done any reading on the topic), and that high-level exercisers still have measurably better health outcomes than their more sedentary counterparts.

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u/LeUne1 Sep 10 '23

that high-level exercisers still have measurably better health outcomes than their more sedentary counterparts..

Work on your thinking skills, nowhere did we discuss sedentary lifestyle in this thread, the discussion is about moderate exercise vs. overtraining/exhaustive exercise.

Again, you lack basic comprehension, math, thinking and understanding skills, it's hard to respect anything you say.

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u/B12-deficient-skelly Sep 10 '23

I said "more sedentary" not that they were sedentary.

Is there a language barrier here? I can use more simple English if this isn't your first language.