EVERYTHING Runners Need To Know About Keeping Their Heart Healthy

exactly 1 year ago i was in the hospital with 90-99% obstructed bloodvessel on 3 places, my heart was strong the cardiologist told me. I was running half marathons. No signs on the Garmin heart rate, however endurance was another story.. I see a lot of people starting to run to lose overweight, they must take into account that heart rate is only half of the story. Beware of what you eat and develop a strong discipline in doing so to keep your vessels in good shape. These are the pipes to your engine. Enjoy running, forget about schedules & goals, go where you feet will bring you and love it by ❤

Omg that helped a lot. The part of the resting heart rate jumping up when overtraining! Great advice

I pay close attention to the HRV function of my watch. Even though both my resting heart rate (44-47 at 51 years old) and heart rate during running have come down (lots of zone 2), it's not that hard for me to overdo it in training. So when my HRV becomes unbalanced, I make sure to take some extra rest to avoid getting over trained, because once that happens I won't be able to sleep 😒

Part of the promise of greater longevity is understanding how cellular dysfunction progresses from eating a less than optimal diet vs. eating an optimal diet to restore good cellular health. There isn't broad consensus on what an optimal diet is for an athletic lifestyle. How can separate the effects of aging from the effects of a less than optimal diet? Keep your vascular system healthy (think endothelium). Keep your mitochondrial healthy. These two Key Performance Indicators(PKI)s will go a long ways to keeping your heart healthy.

I’ve ran 3x a week or more, about 30-40km per week for more than a year and my HR hasn’t changed at all. 44yo

Really shows how great it is to have a good smart watch for training that tracks rhr hrv and heart rate during training. This allows you accurately track your health and heart health.

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20:09 Thank you very much for pointing out this. A lot of enthusiastic runner fanatically exerted themselves and died young when they were not feeling well but still insisted to work out in order to recover faster. This could be a death zone for them to die before their time. Once they died during exercise, their families would suffer a lot emotionally and financially. Do not run to die young, run responsibly to live a better quality life with our beloved families instead. The negative effects of repeatedly getting Covid-19 should be heeled well too by runners.

Great explanation. Thanks!

Very nice golden important video. Thank you Coach Parry

Phenomenal video! 👍🏽 Perfectly timed too having just run a 10K easy and was struggling to keep my heart rate below 140 despite pacing at only 9min/km it became clear I clearly haven’t recovered from a recent bout of flu like illness. Very topical too given the number of athletes we’ve lost over the last year 😔🙏🏽❤️

First i want to say this is seriously the best and most comprehensive set of videos ive found around heart based training, really appreciate the effort and detail you put in! Second, im 45 and vo2 max score is 44. However on my easy runs which ive been doing 3 times a week for several months. I just can't get my heart rate to the 130s and 140s like my peers can. At that range im practically walking. However when i do push higher, i find i can run for a fairly long amount of time in the red zone compared to my peers. Wth is going on my with heart? 😂 I know this one might be hard to answer but curious if any of the other commenters experience the same?

Amazing content, it was really hard for me to find such clear information on the subject from internet, thank you !!

Very good video

Useful video! What are your views on the Karvonen formula for working out heart rate zones, which takes resting heart rate into account? I am considering using them instead of the built in zones on my (Garmin) watch. I have a fairly low resting heart rate (high 30s) and it seems to give zones that are in much better accord with the usual textual descriptions.

I had an emergency surgery to repair an aortic dissection during the surgery and had several strokes. I went from standing for 3 minutes to hiking 2 hours on a 6 mile intermediate trail every weekend. Then, I started to have shortness of breath and eventually fluid in the lungs. My ejection fraction had dropped to 25%. It is now back to normal, but I'm afraid of pushing too hard. After the strokes, I worked my way up 20 squats, now I can only do 4, and I feel like I pulled a couple of muscles, so now I can't do any. When my physical therapy benefits ended, I tried to hire one out of pocket, but no one would do it because of my medical history. Even though I was cleared by my cardiologist.

Hi I had Covid in 2020 and developed High Blood pressure. It went away after about a year. I did a few marathons and Ultras the last two years, but I am back on medication. If my blood pressure is normal can I train normally as I used to?

Enjoyed the video. However, isn't it better and far more accurate to measure resting heart rate during sleep than after waking up? For me, I see at least a jump of 10 bpm after waking up, particularly if I sit or stand up. I've always believed that resting heart rate is the lowest rate observed during sleep. Must of us have watches that can record this during sleep.

Hear this speaking for 3 times. Write it down and compare this with your controlled training with garmin or other tool and important also your feeling. ❤❤❤

Amazing informational video as usual! Indeed lower HR than usual during sprint training is really bad. Sometimes when this happens I feel pretty bad and it is a sign I am not resting enough.