Eric Fleishman, celebrity fitness trainer, dead at 53

Robert59

Robert59

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Now I live in Tennesee. Did live in Michigan.
A lot of professional athletes and body cultists do not necessarily live longer than the rest of us. Professional and even amateur practitioners of contact sports can pay a terrible price for their passion in terms of joint and even brain damage…
 
Fyrefox said:
A lot of professional athletes and body cultists do not necessarily live longer than the rest of us. Professional and even amateur practitioners of contact sports can pay a terrible price for their passion in terms of joint and even brain damage…
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I think you are right, overdoing it can be harmful.

However few of us come even close to overdoing it, and some exercise is good for the vast majority. From an interesting study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395188/ :

Regular physical activity reduces the risk of and/or improves many diseases and conditions including arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, dyslipidemia, obesity, coronary heart disease, chronic heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In addition, the risk of colon, breast, and possibly endometrial, lung, and pancreatic cancer is reduced

and

the conservative estimate of the net increase in life expectancy with physical activity is about 2–4 years but presumably even greater because of the positive influence of physical activity on major risk factors for mortality

I think it also makes us feel better for the years we do live.
 
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