Boosting Exercise Capacity May Prolong Life

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Boosting Exercise Capacity May Prolong Life



 Improving maximal exercise capacity over time may prolong life, suggests a new study.
People who started with low exercise capacity but were able to improve to intermediate or high fitness levels reduced their risk of death during the study by roughly 40 percent, say the authors.
“Maximal exercise capacity is our ability to do work. It is dependent on the health of the heart, lungs, blood, and muscles,” lead author Clinton Brawner, of the Edith and Benson Ford Heart and Vascular Institute at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, told Reuters Health.
“More importantly, higher exercise capacity means an individual is able to complete activities of daily living, like working around the house, more easily and with less fatigue than someone with a lower exercise capacity,” Brawner said by email.
“(You’ve) got to make sure you’re safe for exercise, number one. Anyone with other complex health issues should be checked out and make sure they’re safe for exercise. That being said and for those people who are perhaps younger, who don’t have those risk factors, again, it’s a matter of getting up and doing something,” he said.
Whiteson said people should push themselves to the intensity where they’re feeling fatigued and tired.
“The more you do, the less fatigued and tired you’re going to get. That’s training; you’re becoming fitter,” he said.
Nobody gets up in the morning and runs a marathon. They have to start running the first mile, the first five miles, said Whiteson.
“When you to do five miles the first time, boy you’re going to feel it. But once you’ve done it six or seven times it gets a little easier, that’s the training process,” he said.
SOURCE: http://mayocl.in/2lbvG5G
Mayo Clin Proc 2017.

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