Running=Longevity
Below is courtesy of Hal Higdon's website, Hal is an elite masters marathon runner, I have been training for this year's Chicago Marathon alone unlike before when I trained with a running group. And, I have ended up using tips and the training schedule on Hal's site as my guideline. I found the below fascinating, hard evidence that running leads to extra years of life.
"The Mother of All Longevity Studies, the one most quoted by those promoting exercise, is that conducted by Dr. Paffenbarger on Harvard Alumni. Dr. Paffenbarger's data suggested that if you started exercising at age 35, you extended your life 2.51 years. For all ages between 35 and 79, the extension averaged 2.15 years. Also, longevity was dose related. As you increased energy expenditure from 100 to 3,500 calories a week, your risk declined. How you exercised also affected longevity. "The dose-response relationship of exercise vs. coronary disease," reported Dr. Pafffenbarger, "was not merely a matter of total energy output per week but also reflected intensity of exercise."
What is the best, most convenient and least expensive exercise for most individuals? One involving some intensity. Walking is good; running is better.
How do you get from the two-plus years in the Harvard study to the six-to-nine years suggested above? Dr. Paffenbarger concedes his projections were conservative. As an epidemiological researcher following a paper trail, he dealt with numbers as much as people. In contrast, at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D. has hands-on data involving 80,000 patients, seen by his staff of 18 physicians over a span of three decades."
"The Mother of All Longevity Studies, the one most quoted by those promoting exercise, is that conducted by Dr. Paffenbarger on Harvard Alumni. Dr. Paffenbarger's data suggested that if you started exercising at age 35, you extended your life 2.51 years. For all ages between 35 and 79, the extension averaged 2.15 years. Also, longevity was dose related. As you increased energy expenditure from 100 to 3,500 calories a week, your risk declined. How you exercised also affected longevity. "The dose-response relationship of exercise vs. coronary disease," reported Dr. Pafffenbarger, "was not merely a matter of total energy output per week but also reflected intensity of exercise."
What is the best, most convenient and least expensive exercise for most individuals? One involving some intensity. Walking is good; running is better.
How do you get from the two-plus years in the Harvard study to the six-to-nine years suggested above? Dr. Paffenbarger concedes his projections were conservative. As an epidemiological researcher following a paper trail, he dealt with numbers as much as people. In contrast, at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D. has hands-on data involving 80,000 patients, seen by his staff of 18 physicians over a span of three decades."
posted by CW at 9:21 AM
2 Comments:
What is the reference to 6 to 9 years?
Thanks!
SMF
Those are good too, any form of exercise is good. This guy isa masters runner, he trains runners for the olympics and marathons, so his focus is running.
I think the main thing is that RUNNING stgarting at age 35 consistently, adds 2-3 years to your life, keep on doing it in earnest and you can add 6 to 9 years supposedly based on those Harvard studies.
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