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Running for Health vs. Running for Performance: Can You Have Both?
Episode 142
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In this episode, you will learn:
✅ Is there such thing as too much running?
✅ On the colon cancer and running study
✅ Is too much running bad for your heart?
✅ Does running help with mood disorders and mental health?
✅ Age-related declines
✅ Creating a training plan for running for health
Field Tests for our Listener Question:
- Cooper test: After a 10-20 min warm-up, run as far as you can in 12 minutes. Record distance and enter into this calculator.
- 1.5-mile run test: After a 10-20 min warm-up, run as fast as you can for 1.5 miles. Record distance and enter into this calculator.
- Lactate threshold test. After a 10-20 min warm-up, run 30 minutes as fast as you can (self-paced, even effort). Your average pace over the final 20 minutes is your velocity at second LT (60-min race pace) and your average HR over the final 20 min is your LTHR.
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References:
🔬 https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/244806
🔬 https://www.onlinejacc.org/content/75/1/60
🔬PMID: 28450347
🔬 PMID: 26301178
🔬 PMID: 25128074
🔬PMID: 31691927
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