Run Long, Run Healthy — April 25, 2024
You Can Run (And Hide) From Chronic Disease; What NOT To Eat Before Races; Beware The “ANTS” In Your Head
PLUS: Breathe strong to run strong; Why women runners need strength training; How to beat calf pain; 7 habits of optimal health
You Can Run, AND You Can Hide (From Chronic Disease)
Here’s a great and important new exercise paper that produced some numbers and ratios we’ve never seen before. It aimed to establish the relative effectiveness of different activities to reduce your risk of “cardiometabolic disease” — heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. The large group of researchers included many global authorities.
In particular, it looked at walking, running, stair climbing, standing, and sitting times. How much is required to reduce disease risks? Or, in the case of sitting, at what point does too much sitting increase risks?
To accomplish this impressive dose-response goal, the researchers used thigh-based accelerometers on more than 12,000 subjects. Subjects wore the accelerometers for 7 days. They came from the U.S., Great Britain, Australia, Denmark, and the…
