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Marc:
Well, with that, do you have to sacrifice your joints for your heart?

Craig:
Absolutely not. The thing is as much credit as we give to cardiovascular
exercise for improving cardiovascular health; it’s probably not the most
important thing. I mean, there’s so many other ways to improve your
cardiovascular health. I mean, the basics are don’t smoke, don’t drink
excessively, don’t be overweight and don’t eat certain foods like trans
fats; and on the other hand, do be active in activity you enjoy. Don’t be
stressed out, so make sure that you have some stress reduction tactics.
Maintain a healthy body weight and eat the right foods, lots of healthy
fats, protein, fruits and vegetables.
I mean, that’s a big, broad picture. I mean, if you think about the old
people that you know that are in good health, I bet you a lot of them
haven’t spent four, five hours a week doing cardiovascular training.
They’ve been active, they’re probably very happy, good natured people,
and they eat and live in moderation. So, I guess my answer is, again it’s
very moderate there, and you certainly don’t have to do cardiovascular,
joint pounding exercise to live long and happy and healthy without
cardiovascular problems.
And if you do too much cardiovascular training, it’s, in certain methods
obviously, you can end up sacrificing your joints, and that’s one of the
things that I refer to as the dark side of cardio. When I’ve been in gyms
with a physiotherapy office in the back, who are the people going in there
most of the time? People with overuse injuries, whether they’re desk
workers with overuse injuries, whether they’re weight trainers with
overuse injuries, more often than not, they’re endurance athletes with
overuse injuries from spinning too much to running too much. There’s
certainly, again it just comes down to common sense and having a
professional look after your program, and you’ll end up with the most
benefits with the least amount of risk.

Marc:
Well, I think you’ve probably already answered this one, but I’ll just ask it
again just in case, but does aerobic activity have to be extremely time
consuming?


Craig:
No, I don’t think I’ve covered that yet, and one thing is you do have to
look at, you know, there’s a law of diminishing results. If I do 30 minutes
of steady, say cardio, am I only getting half the results as a person who’s
doing 60 minutes? No, that’s not true. And can I get a lot of
cardiovascular benefits from doing interval training in shorter workouts?
Definitely, so it doesn’t have to be excessively time consuming to
improve your health...