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It’s well known ultra training destroys your heart.

In any sport.

They tested the blood of marathon runners and found heart attack markers in many of them because the heart muscle is being damaged and healing and scarring and hardening the muscle leaving young ultra trainers with the heart of an 80 year old.

The best modern advice is don’t overtrain.

https://youtu.be/Y6U728AZnV0



Additionally recent studies have shown high duration/volumes of cardio increases plaque buildup in the arteries.

"Indeed, many studies have shown a relationship between endurance sports and higher volumes of coronary calcified plaque as determined by computed tomography."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11395881/


Wow, their "high" threshold is 150 minutes / week.

That's really not a lot, it's like 3 days / week of running a slow 10k.


Yes, given all the recent data coming out, it seems to me HIIT is a much better bet for general health purposes than LISS style cardio.

Curious what the consensus will be a few years out.


Define HITT.

I guarantee you that HITT with stupid movements is also not good for you. And you can over train HITT. Source: all the people I used to do CrossFit with that got injured or washed out from over doing it.

As always the answer is to listen to your body and don’t over do it. Running marathons is fine. HITT is fine. Lifting weights is fine. In moderation at an intensity suitable to the individual.




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