Endurance exercise training exerts many positive effects on health, including improved metabolism, reduction of cardiovascular risk, and reduced all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Intense endurance exercise causes mild epithelial injury and inflammation in the airways, but does not appear to exert detrimental effects on respiratory health or bronchial reactivity in recreational/ non-elite athletes. Conversely, elite athletes of both summer and winter sports show increased susceptibility to development of asthma, possibly related to environmental exposures to allergens or poor conditioning of inspired air, so that a distinct phenotype of “sports asthma” has been proposed to characterise such athletes, who more often practise aquatic and winter sports. Overall, endurance training is good for health but may become deleterious when performed at high intensity or volume.

Morici, G., Gruttad’Auria, C., Baiamonte, P., Mazzuca, E., Castrogiovanni, A., Bonsignore, M. (2016). Endurance training: Is it bad for you?. BREATHE, 12(2), 140-147 [10.1183/20734735.007016].

Endurance training: Is it bad for you?

MORICI, Giuseppe;GRUTTAD'AURIA, Claudia Irene;BAIAMONTE, Pierpaolo;MAZZUCA, Emilia;CASTROGIOVANNI, Alessandra;BONSIGNORE, Maria Rosaria
2016-01-01

Abstract

Endurance exercise training exerts many positive effects on health, including improved metabolism, reduction of cardiovascular risk, and reduced all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Intense endurance exercise causes mild epithelial injury and inflammation in the airways, but does not appear to exert detrimental effects on respiratory health or bronchial reactivity in recreational/ non-elite athletes. Conversely, elite athletes of both summer and winter sports show increased susceptibility to development of asthma, possibly related to environmental exposures to allergens or poor conditioning of inspired air, so that a distinct phenotype of “sports asthma” has been proposed to characterise such athletes, who more often practise aquatic and winter sports. Overall, endurance training is good for health but may become deleterious when performed at high intensity or volume.
2016
Settore BIO/09 - Fisiologia
Settore MED/10 - Malattie Dell'Apparato Respiratorio
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Morici, G., Gruttad’Auria, C., Baiamonte, P., Mazzuca, E., Castrogiovanni, A., Bonsignore, M. (2016). Endurance training: Is it bad for you?. BREATHE, 12(2), 140-147 [10.1183/20734735.007016].
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