Marathon running is becoming more popular. Even people with whom one would have suspected the motivation to extreme effort ever, suddenly there. And one of us, which moves in these hot summer months at most times, and occasionally drumming otherwise prefer the sea is rising and the arms look a bit, then immediately look pretty old.
And now a growing number of older athletes are here, facing this challenge. For the doctors, this development has raised some concern. Because they suggested that therefore the hearts of my not so young generation might be expected of a harmful excess of physical stress.
let Fortunately, new studies by a group of cardiologists at the Berlin Charité appear this concern as unfounded. They have carried out a total of 167 participants of the Berlin marathon just before the start and ten minutes after the race and then again after two weeks of a thorough examination, including ECG and echocardiography. The average age of these well-trained amateur runners who had in her life already completed several long-distance running was 50 years.
Immediately after the marathon, however, were typical episodes found the long-term stress, such as including tachycardia (The tachycardia means to exceed the old usual physiological heart rate, eg about 100 beats per minute in an adult), dehydrogenation (or dehydration: means "drying out": the body loses fluid, without same time to take an appropriate amount of liquid) and a decrease in renal function. But joined the echocardiographic examination, despite this increase in any of the participants, a change in the hearts. no evidence of a right or left ventricular dysfunction were present, Dr. Fabian Knebel reported at the European Cardiology Congress in Stockholm.
The conclusion for the doctors: After a marathon is the power of the heart in older athletes get full.
So, keep exercising if you feel concerned. But remember to leave at all sporting ambitions do not regularly check. It should be available before the big challenge has done anyway.
And then on 17 October it's that time again: the great TUI Marathon Palma. I wish you all the motivation in the world that you bring himself to conquer your weaker and then really it can be because you are in top shape.
And who is not who should sit and watch at least once. Perhaps the motivation anyway? It does not have to be marathon running, but who knows ...?
Source: aerztezeitung.de
Source: aerztezeitung.de
