Jeg har lest dr. Mercolas innlegg Ny studie om trening;

Det er viktig å trene riktig og forvisse seg om å få tilstrekkelig hvile og tilheling. Dette er like viktig som selve treningen. Variasjon i trening er nødvendig, men utover det er det nå overveldende bevis som indikerer at konvensjonelle langdistanseløping er en av de verste former for trening. Undersøkelser har ikke bare bekreftet urovekkende funn, men også konkludert med at langdistanseløping er en av de minst effektive former for trening.
Her følger et intervju mellom dr. Mercola og dr. McGuff, en tidligere "treningsnarkoman" som lærte mye om helsemessig- og helsefarlig trening da han studerte medisin.
Like you, I was actually drawn into medical school by an interest in exercise that began when I was a teenager.

I ended up in emergency medicine, because I found that's where my natural talents lie, and also because I could not find any specialty of medicine that I felt was giving an appropriate representation of what exercise should be.
I originally became interested in exercises when I was about 14 years old. I was in a sport called bicycle motocross or BMX, which is a type of sprint race done offroad on bicycles. At the time, I was just starting in it and found myself quite weak in the sport. In particular, there were certain sections that involved a large hill climb that I could not make. My brother had just one of these seaman plastic barbell sets in the garage. I decided to break out the manual for that and give that a try. Within one month, I was literally astounded.

I essentially went from last-place to untouchable. I tried for the better part of the year to keep my training activity a secret. That sort of launched me to a level on the sport, where I was doing really well. Ironically, I made it to the professional level by the time I was 17. It was my passion for highintensity training as advocated by Arthur Jones that probably kept me from going as high in that sport as I should. At that level, they start to feel that if I‟m resting, someone else is training.

I actually overtrained. I was doing three very hard sessions per week religiously, in addition to the racing schedule. I just winded out. I think, in retrospect, if I want to have the insight to pay attention to the recovery side of the equation, I would have done much, much better. That's kind of how I evolved this interest in high-intensity exercise and kind of took it on from there.
Hele intervjuet varer i ca 2 timer.




Hele intervjuet er også å lese i pdf format.