Excessive exercise

[gingerjedi]

There was a theory a few years ago that you are born with a pre-determined number of calories to burn once you have burned them that is it. Sounds fairly obvious especially when you consider ex professional sports people seem to die earlier than average.

Its all to do with 'free radicals' and 'oxidising' which are bad but are increased with exercise, doing enough to keep the flab off and no more is probably the best bet for an average person, also people who eat minimal calories live longer which backs up your point.

[TimberWolf]

May I respectfully suggest to any of you that are determined to carry out the dying procedure to carefully consider the consequences of performing this act, especially at an early age, and consider doing the next most decent thing instead and just disappear. Failing that, to leave a euphemistic note suggesting that you may be gone for some indefinite period of time. Good luck with whatever you decide. Canoe man.

[SueEllen]

What I always wonder is are you better off doing exercise but generally eating carp, or eating healthily but lazing around barely moving.

Your suppose to eat healthly and do the exercise.

And if exercise is so good for you, how come professional sporty types are always injured?

The word here is "professional" normal people who have jobs or are sitting around on the dole don't do 100 mile plus weeks of training to run a marathon.

Just off for a run along the Thames....

[SallyAnne]

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(that doesn't mean call the Mods)

Mods's pet.

[Bagpuss]

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[SallyAnne]

What I always wonder is are you better off doing exercise

Comeon you rlot, use your heads here.

Yes we read about a few stories each year about people who die while jogging.

if it was news worthy, how many would we hear about who died sitting on the sofa?
eating pies?
in their sleep? (Oh no, sleeping is bad for you!!)

Come on man, think about it.

[Bagpuss]

There was a theory a few years ago that you are born with a pre-determined number of calories to burn once you have burned them that is it. Sounds fairly obvious especially when you consider ex professional sports people seem to die earlier than average.

[VectraMan]

What I always wonder is are you better off doing exercise but generally eating crap, or eating healthily but lazing around barely moving.

And if exercise is so good for you, how come professional sporty types are always injured?

[AtW]

Anyway it's only a half there easy if you do the training.

What suprises me is that people are shocked after every marathon someone dies. Looks like noone seem to remember that the original guy in Greece who run this distance to delivery the message did so and died pretty much straight away. That's why marathon actually became known - had he not died then it is likely that there would have been something else (but also with dead guy at the end).

So, if you run marathon then take out life insurance and check the small print.

[SueEllen]

The only marathon he is doing is in his wild imagination in which he is also a successful property guru.

Stranger things have happened........

Anyway it's only a half there easy if you do the training.

[AtW]

Which reminds me ex smoker SASguru is doing a half marathon

The only marathon he is doing is in his wild imagination in which he is also a successful property guru.

[Bagpuss]

He was a nice guy but obsessed with exercise. Which reminds me ex smoker SASguru is doing a half marathon

[Dow Jones]

Thank you Bagpuss

They go from one extreme to another, don't they?
Like an ex-con being a priest, or a lap dancer becoming a nun.
Repent ye all for your sins (whatever).

[SueEllen]

Rather than hijack Snaw's thread...

Apparently that bloke died from a heart attack when his aorta was blocked by furring of the artery that flaked off . He used to have an unhealthy lifestyle a decade or so before he became a keep fit fanatic and dislodged some of the damage he had done in the past.

That''s why the advice if you are middle aged and want to start doing loads of exercise is to go for a medical before starting.

BTW he would have died soon anyway.

There is some statistic that exercise only adds about 5-7 years on to your life.

However it does mean you can eat more chocolate and cakes, and fit into your clothes in those years.

[Bagpuss]

On a different note, what is it with those middle-aged executives that keep running near the river in the City at lunchtime? Just go to a f'n gym, I said to someone that nearly pushed me over! Can they not afford the membership?

Rather than hijack Snaw's thread...

Apparently that bloke died from a heart attack when his aorta was blocked by furring of the artery that flaked off . He used to have an unhealthy lifestyle a decade or so before he became a keep fit fanatic and dislodged some of the damage he had done in the past.