How Much DAMAGE Are You Doing To Your Ticker By Running (& Other Questions Answered)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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In this episode of the Faster Beyond 50 Podcast, Brad and Coach Lindsay Parry discuss key topics for runners over 50, including whether marathon running is harmful to the heart, how to bounce back after COVID, the importance of strength training, using the MAF method correctly, and balancing triathlon training as you age. Lindsay shares insights into his personal training experience and provides actionable advice for listeners on structuring their training while minimizing the risk of injury. Key highlights include detailed explanations of how to adjust training intensity, incorporate strength training, and prioritize recovery for optimal performance.
The heart thing reminds me of the rubbish spouted by non-runners when they find you're a runner... "You'll ruin your knees/back/hips..." being the most common.
Most of the people I know who have bad joints don't use them.
What a relief, my heart is safe. I ran my first marathon on Sunday!! Hit the wall hard and finished in 4:07. Not too bad for 55. No junk food and no more than a couple of beers and wine per week.
Cardiologists! I wanted to get a CT Calcium Score test done at 55. I had to force my cardiologist to let me do it, because as I was very fit and had only mildly elevated cholesterol he didn't want to do. He gave in and was shocked to find very bad blockages = calcification.This was all bad genetics, so off for an angiogram as he didn't believe the results. It got worse, we found my biggest heart artery (LAD) was 100% blocked. Both cardiologists were again shocked. Why wasn't I dead? Answer: many years of endurance exercise, cycling and running. Although the arteries were blocked due to very bad genetics, it happened slowly over my life. So all the smaller arteries grew much bigger as the bigger arteries slowly blocked due to calcified plaque, which is very common from many years of long endurance training. So now, I'm on very strong drugs to manage cholesterol, but I can run as hard and as fast as I like. Yes intervals are fine too: Assuming annual and biannual check ups. Running and very long hours of endurance exercise saved my life, even with horrendous genetics. So get medically checked first and then exercise!
Dr Caldwell Esselstyn shows the research that heart disease can be reversed if you are interested. Available on you tube and has a book.
I'm 57 and had long covid since march 2020, every run fells like I've never ran before, its absolutely horrible, my legs and arms hurt and my heart fells like it wants to burst. I've resorted to only doing only 2 miles, at the beginning I couldn't even run a few hundred meters without stopping.
This is horrible
Thank you so much guys @ Coach Parry for answering my question! Wendy Berdan here! You showed me the whole picture by sharing your story Coach Parry! As someone who had a stroke at 41 I did get a bit paranoid about running 🤪🤪 although my heart scans showed nothing that caused it. I do eat pretty healthy now AND I will NEVER watch another video like that again! I’m going to have so much fun being a Marathon Warrior as long as I can! 🎉❤
Have you measured your lipoprotein “little” a or Lp(a)? I’m guessing you’ve had these discussions with your GP, but you do want to understand your overall risk and take appropriate precautions (e.g., low dose aspirin if not contraindicated)…
Cooper Institute in Dallas followed thousands of marathon runners and while they found more calcium deposits in their coronaries (compared to stationary controls) they also found that their calcified coronaries were NOT associated with higher risk a assumption here is that protective part of running (e.g., building collateral vasculature, wt. control, BP control), offsets any drawbacks (e.g., higher coronary calcification)…
As a rule of thumb, exercise and good nutrition will decrease your risk of heart disease. But if you have heart disease, there are few metabolic tests as rigorous as a marathon to bring it out. Kudos for seeing your cardiologist after not feeling right unexpectedly. There are plenty of case reports of aging athletes who ignored the signs. Jim Fixx comes to mind.
As someone with serious heart disease, I couldn’t disagree more. Running helped save my life and my cardiologist 100% agrees. It helped me reverse damage and improved my heart function. It can be hard on the lower body for sure, but it is typically great for the cardiovascular system if you are healthy enough to do it and reasonable about your efforts.
Love your heart ❤️ story!
It’s true,
Many people running marathons are not totally healthy.
I don’t drink alcohol, but love chocolate and coffee!
I m 69 and have trained like an elite most of my life and had a job as a stonemason so always been active.
My most annoying problem is I can’t cope with the cold.
Does this apply to most older female athletes, and why?
I really think a lot of these comments are over analysed. Just listen to your body and enjoy your running! A lot of this content would concern me and put me off if I was a novice runner!
Can Lindsay tell us if he got to the bottom of his tiredness and why his marathon performance was under par?
Hey @garywise1378 we did a video on it here:
ua-cam.com/video/ZECA8v582BU/v-deo.html
@@CoachParry Thank you, I've watched that now. Actually, the last two times I went to give blood, they turned me away because my haemoglobin count was under 13.5 g/dl, the baseline for donating. Mine was 12.9, which they said was not low enough to be considered a problem, just not high enough to donate. However, I have been feeling low in energy, although this is often a day or two after a run. I'm now 58 and ran London in 3:26 in 2023. My mileage has dropped over the last 2 years due to other commitments, but I have been running 5 to 8 miles, 3 times a week, and I was intending to raise it up again to aim for a London "good for age" entry (sub 3:45) when I hit 60. My heart rate tends to average around 153 on the runs even when I feel easy. Do you think iron level is a factor? Thank you.
Great talk thanks! But chocolate is not junk food! Food of the gods!
Chocolate and Red bulls are a daily thing for me. No alcohol though. My arteries must be clogged lol
Interestingly, the 190-age gives me the same Z2 max level as using Karvonen
It is a shame that Wendy did not tell you the whole story of the cardiologist on TED. While we are at it don't criticize a TED talk on UA-cam when you are dispensing advice on UA-cam. What the cardiologist said was that anything over 25k a week will scar the internal muscles of the heart, the heart recovers but it is scared. Take from that what you wish, but as a runner, the cardiologist said he would now not do more than 25k a week. He also said nothing about clogging arteries but said if he took a blood sample from a marathon runner at or near the finish and gave that sample to another cardiologist to look at without that person knowing where it came from. There would be markers that would indicate a heart attack.
25k/ week is nothing!
Most runners do more than that.
I ran 90 miles / week for some years when racing marathons.
But I didn’t do ultra running.
It will be interesting to see the effects the current ultra running Popularity, and ultra bike packing has on people’s heart health, and if it leads to more Atrial fibrillation and heart abnormalities
@@lydiagould3090 I think it is important to put this info into the mix with everything else we know. We don't need to overreact. It is not as if 5 out of 10 runners die from heart issues every day. Like you, I run lots of miles every week, not as much as you. 20 years later I enjoy miles in the bank and a resting heart rate of 48.
Long periods of endurance running may lead to a-fib.