Ep. 80: How Much Exercise Is Too Much From The Bioenergetic View? (Fitness vs. Health Part 1)

07 Feb 2022 Ep. 80: How Much Exercise Is Too Much From The Bioenergetic View? (Fitness vs. Health Part 1)

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The harmful effects of excess exercise
Why increasing exercise beyond moderate amounts is NOT effective for weight loss
The harmful effects of excessive endurance training on cardiovascular health
How excess exercise can drive degeneration and contribute to various health issues
How much exercise is “too much”

2:37 – framing the question of where health and fitness meet from the bioenergetic view

13:12 – how excess exercise can cause degeneration and contribute to various health conditions

21:03 – what level of exercise is harmful for cardiovascular health

29:55 – how the expensive tissue hypothesis applies to exercise

45:14 – how excess exercise can steal energy from other areas of our physiology, and how this affects the calorie equation

1:08:23 - can moderate-intensity endurance training for 25 minutes 3 days per week be too much?

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Coronary artery calcium scores are worse if you exercise an average of around 1 hour per day rather than less than 20 minutes per day (1)
Expensive tissue hypothesis (1, 2)
Dr. Barry Groves's presentation on the comparative physiology and diet (video)
The starchild as a potential view into our evolutionary capacity (article)
Long-distance running can cause intestinal permeability, intestinal injury, and endotoxemia (1, 2, 3, 4) 
The constrained total energy expenditure model (1, 2)
The Mythical Calorie Equation (article)
25 minutes of moderate-intensity endurance training 3 times per week can cause overtraining in untrained individuals (1)