Ep. 81: Whether Intense Exercise and Endurance Training Should Be Avoided (Fitness vs. Health Part 2)

In this episode we discuss:

• How to determine how much exercise is right for you

• Why working out regularly is not enough to make up for sitting all day

• Why fitness and health are not synonymous

• Whether lactic acid production, breathlessness, and fat oxidation due to exercise should be avoided at all costs

• Whether intense exercise and being highly active is always more harmful than helpful

 

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Timestamps:

2:55 – the benefits of movement and exercise 

6:41 – whether intense exercise involving lactate production and heavy breathing/breathlessness is harmful 

10:13 – whether endurance training involving fat oxidation is harmful 

18:31 – drawing a line between fitness and health 

25:06 – how to determine how much exercise is right for you

38:23 – whether intense exercise and being highly active is always more harmful than helpful

43:33 – why “eat less and exercise more” doesn’t work and ignores major aspects of our physiology