[ConservativeMind]

This was an association, but what I find interesting is the sickness issue with doing seven or more muscle strengthening exercise sessions, which gave a 41% higher risk of death.

What people don’t appreciate is that muscles are torn down and need repair, when doing strengthening exercises. We really need this exercise, but too much leaves our bodies unable to properly catch up, heal, and then naturally overcompensate, which is how our muscles grow.

Let your body properly recover. Seven plus sessions of weight workouts a week could also be indicative of people with possibly unhealthy habits, perhaps steroid use or over-reliance on protein/supplements to “fix” the damage the workouts cause.

Stick to six or fewer good weight workouts, and you appear to be fine.

For aerobic sessions, approaching 600 minutes a week, and no more, was best.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Macoozie]

Exercise is good for you.
Who knew?
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[sauropod]

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[goodnesswins]

Gotta keep your lungs working

[cdcdawg]

600 minutes per week? That is quite an investment of time.

[tflabo]

One thing I now avoid is doing jogging in the winter outside and getting sweaty in cold weather. In the past it tends to reduce my immunity protection to getting colds/upper respiratory illnesses. Plus drinking beer in the winter. So that plus this past winter also I took Vitamin D every day and went virtually illness free the whole winter. I do a fair amount of airline travels too.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Taking Vitamin D and C as well as some zinc balanced with some copper as well as some daily exercise supercharges your immune system.

[AnonymousConservative]

It is probably also like you see in BJJ or Judo or wrestling. Muscle eats oxygen. The more muscle you put on, the faster you will burn out when fighting, so you have to gas up a lot more, finding ways to keep as much unflexed as possible at all times, and only use the strength to push in specific attacks.

When you get a respiratory infection your lung capacity is cut. And the lungs of a body builder are not really bigger than those of a skinny guy, so they are the limiting factor, even if you build up the heart and blood pathways. Whether you are a marathoner, weigh 350lbs of pure muscle, or do nothing and weigh 110 lbs, those lungs are very similar to each other. They do not grow.

If there is a ton of muscle eating oxygen, and just rolling over in bed you are moving 220lbs, compared to a guy whose whole body weighs 150 lbs, those lungs can’t lose as much capacity and still feed the system, without things like corticosteriods beginning to climb and crush immunity.

I think you are seeing muscle makes it tougher to deal with insults to the lungs.