Danish study: moderate jogging, higher benefits
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Re: Danish study: moderate jogging, higher benefits
#2TL;DR; strenuous jogging doesn't have health benefits. There isn't enough data from the study to support any stronger conclusions.
Re: Danish study: moderate jogging, higher benefits
#37mph is a speed a lot of people can't run. Those are 8 1/2 minute miles. It corresponds to a speed of 26min for a 5k.
This article
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4612823
Slower speeds might skew towards women, who naturally live longer.
Another thought is that people who run fast do so over shorter distances, and their volume isn't sufficient to see a health bump.
Re: Danish study: moderate jogging, higher benefits
#4Actually, life expectancy of world class aerobic athletes (unlike power (anaerobic) ones) is a little higher than average according to studies in US, Spain, Germany, Poland...
Could be a little lower than life expectancy of those involved in moderate aerobic activities though, I guess.
Re: Danish study: moderate jogging, higher benefits
#5Strenuous jogging is called running.
Re: Danish study: moderate jogging, higher benefits
#67mph is a speed a lot of people can't run. Those are 8 1/2 minute miles. It corresponds to a speed of 26min for a 5k. This article http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4612823 has some stats for a 5k race. The average time for men was 28min, and only 10% of the women were faster than 26min. Slower speeds might skew towards women, who naturally live longer. Another thought is that people who run fast do s…
12 km/h isn't particularly unachievable. I'm middle-aged, heavily built, run to and from work a couple of times a week and otherwise do no cardio exercise. I've built up to that kind of pace over a couple of years.
Re: Danish study: moderate jogging, higher benefits
#77mph is a speed a lot of people can't run. Those are 8 1/2 minute miles. It corresponds to a speed of 26min for a 5k. This article http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4612823 has some stats for a 5k race. The average time for men was 28min, and only 10% of the women were faster than 26min. Slower speeds might skew towards women, who naturally live longer. Another thought is that people who run fast do s…
It's easier if you run at that pace for 20 minutes, 3 times a week...
Re: Danish study: moderate jogging, higher benefits
#8TL;DR; strenuous jogging doesn't have health benefits. There isn't enough data from the study to support any stronger conclusions.
The study indicates that strenuous jogging has the same benefits as no jogging, while moderate jogging improves life expectancy.
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#9Anecdotal opinion of someone that ran 6:50ish per mile pace yesterday in the SF Kaiser Half-Marathon and thus am apparently shortening my life... Those of us trying to run faster and be competitive (whether with ourselves or others) really don't care if we lose a few years of life. Quality over quantity! These articles come up every so often and seem to just serve as reasons for sedentary people to feel smug about their life choices.
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#10The error bars for strenuous exercise in the publication are laughable. Out of a population of ~1000, only 36 were strenuous joggers and only 2 of them died.