Doing too much is apparently not good for your body...

[Ombrax]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/well ... =url-share

"Too Much High-Intensity Exercise May Be Bad for Your Health"

A new study hints that excessive HIIT may harm your mitochondria, the energy generators found in every cell of your body.

[Ripples]

The NYT article is behind a paywall. Here's another report on the same topic: https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/ ... s-bad-body

[Ombrax]

And another free site:

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opin ... tudy-68581

[jamesg]

What a surprise; but we have a range of escape routes. Take a day off, or a holiday, or even stay between the sheets in extreme cases.

This type of research reminds one of the Dr's thesis, on his wall:

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[Gammmmo]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/well ... =url-share

"Too Much High-Intensity Exercise May Be Bad for Your Health"

A new study hints that excessive HIIT may harm your mitochondria, the energy generators found in every cell of your body.

Thanks for the study - always interesting to read a new take on things. I don't think THAT many people's training would have as much or more HIT than the study cites. Whenever you push things with sport it does tend to get unhealthy. Hopefully the small number of people that truly do (and we're all different as to what level is unhealthy and indeed an acceptable risk) realise that. My view is to periodise sport throughout your life...mix things up esp once you get to the point where you're not really getting any better or it's all getting a bit boring or more obvious detrimental health effects are presenting e.g. when I was fast on a bike I was weak as a kitten and often had a bad back (i.e. it was becoming detrimental to my health). Try different things. But enjoy that period of time where you're adapting and don't know what you're capable of...indeed I *would* do Vo2max style intervals as cited in the study, but only for so long. The study also said "MAY".