Related to my article underneath we would like to ask you 3 questions that may indicate how serious heart problems among endurance, and triathletes in specific may be. As immunity is one of the pillars of a healthy heart the first 15 answering our questionnaire shall receive a Biest Booster Race Package, a massive boost for your immune system !
Myocarditis is one of major threats to the heart of an endurance athlete
If we consider how long a heart is able to beat without taking a break, this muscle can be called robust without any doubt. But during a life time this muscle is exposed to many risk factors beside the fact that congenital defects of different extent may play a crucial role in initiating cardiac issues sooner or later in life. Basically, a good life style of which physical activity is one pillar, is strengthening and securing your heart’s condition, but if the muscle is stressed too much and you overlook the early symptoms of overreaching, then the consequences may be serious or even lethal. The following chapter is meant to give an idea about the heart’s robustness on the one hand, and its fragility on the other. Continue Reading →
But how are they linked?
Everybody who has experienced sickness knows the feeling of being ill and not feeling well that may come along with indisposition, fatigue, lassitude, headache, drowsiness, shiver, muscle and limb pain, lack of motivation, loss of appetite as well as sleeping disorders. Also those among you who pushed their training too hard or have been on the edge to overtraining know these symptoms. Continue Reading →
I think that especially the very early signs of overtraining – when overreaching turns into overtraining – are very easily overlooked. We tend to do more, if our performance level drops. We often prematurely draw the conclusion that we did not train enough. But if our “diagnosis” is wrong than more intensive training sessions can very quickly bring about heavy legs during exercise … Continue Reading →
As I observe it since several years in triathlon “Food” its 4th discipline is flooded by sloppy scientific facts. Study results telling you their truths are available in huge amounts. Critical, controversial and incomplete are the underlying theories, that present the matrix for interpreting the data. Data remains until today fluffy and inconclusive. This applies first and for all for carbohydrates the pillar of nutrition for all athletes. Continue Reading →
We very much thank your for taking part in our first survey. Continue Reading →
The posts before have shown the dramatic outcomes of too much exercise and training. In between, I would like to take another perspective on the whole topic to encourage your efforts, and perhaps give you more cues at hand to make the detrimental results of too much training and racing more understandable.
Modern exercise physiology and biology put a lot of work into studying the healthy body. That has not been the case for many decades where scientists only looked at sick bodies. Exercise physiology gives an amazing insight into the body’s “normal” way of functioning. Continue Reading →
As many of you are heading for Kona and therefore are in their very hot phase of training I assume that the most helpful post would be to summarize the essential but discrete signs you have to watch out for to avoid overtraining.
Especially from studies that dealt with the effects of human growth hormone – a substance that is definitely on the WADA’s list and considered as doping – we know that performance enhancement is very closely related to recovery times. Continue Reading →
