Endurance Athletes Bath in Cortisol: Dose-Dependent Elevations in Hair Cortisol of Triathletes and Runners.
Image 1: There are two types of endurance exercise - the one that is healthy for obese diabetics and the one that chronically stresses and, in the worst case, eventually kills healthy but overambitious hobby athletes; the photo shows a collapsed runner at the 2007 London Marathon, where 22 of his comrades died (source thisislondon.co.uk ) In view of the fact, that the series of blogposts on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) I made in the course of the last weeks were pretty popular, I thought it may also be of interest that there are interesting new results on the effects of resistance training which goes beyond the common "we took 12 obese sedentary post-menopausal women and had them ride a stationary bike for 45min three times a week" approaches , as well. One of these studies happens to come from a group of German scientists from the Universities of Dresden, Marburg and Hamburg ( Kirschbaum. 2011 ); and the results underline my previous comments on the differe...