Bodybuilding can be stressful. Some confuse fitness with health. Here’s an example from the marathoning world.
Dr. Arthur Siegel, director of Internal Medicine at McLean, and his collaborators analyzed the blood of marathoners less than 24 hours after finishing a race and found abnormally high levels of inflammatory and clotting factors of the kind that are known to set the stage for heart attack.
Yeah, I never ran marathons. I was a 3 mile, 3 day a week jogger. My weightlifting was intense by normal standards, but not to the level of extreme exhaustion. What I’m saying is that to believe that my physical fitness caused my heart attack is just not really believable.