Timeline for Does running, short or long distance, cause muscle loss?
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| Aug 9, 2015 at 15:59 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 6, 2015 at 17:21 | comment | added | John Doucette | In chat, we concluded that pericles316's objections were caused by a misunderstanding about what the question being asked was. The bold text at the end of my answer was deemed a satisfactory answer to the question "Does running cause muscle loss?", which we believe was the asker's intent. | |
| Aug 5, 2015 at 9:56 | comment | added | pericles316 | Regarding the claims (jogging and anaerobic training) mentioned in the Tnation article, more information is present here-sportsci.org/encyc/adaptex/adaptex.html and here-plusone.ideafit.com/fitness-library/a-primer-on-muscles | |
| Aug 5, 2015 at 9:03 | comment | added | pericles316 | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Aug 5, 2015 at 8:52 | comment | added | pericles316 | @Nomenagentis-I agree that muscle loss and hypertrophy are opposites. However, slow twitch muscle fibers are used for low intensity activities such as jogging and high repetition, low intensity exercise, such as distance running also mainly uses slow twitch fibers. Successful distance runners have a high proportion of slow twitch muscles. So in a way doesn't running short or long distance relate to endurance athletes having more slow twitch fibers in their active muscles and less of fast twitch fibers when compared to strength athletes and sprinters ? | |
| Aug 5, 2015 at 7:33 | comment | added | pericles316 | @John Doucette- The same paper quotes "A hockey player wanting to increase leg strength during dry ice training may want to avoid running and instead select a cycling exercise, which more closely approximates the demands of skating." and "Running has a high eccentric component, whereas cycling consists of primarily concentric activity. These differences in contraction types (eccentric vs. concentric) may create greater damage in running than in cycling." This means leg strength of a ice hockey player using running as his exercise will not be increased due to muscle fatigue. | |
| Aug 5, 2015 at 7:19 | comment | added | pericles316 | @Nomenagentis-The question is about short or long distance running causing muscle loss and not about effects of endurance/concurrent training on strength, power, or hypertrophy. Its already known that some individuals experience strength decrease after concurrent training, whereas others experience substantial increase. This quoted metanalysis talks about concurrent running vs. cycling and also "long distance running causes large increases in muscle damage". A causal relationship between exercise induced muscle loss and muscle hypertrophy is yet to be established. | |
| Aug 5, 2015 at 1:40 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | I confess I haven't looked at your reference. Does it conclude causality, or merely correlation? Either way, I would emphasize that more in the answer. | |
| Aug 4, 2015 at 21:07 | history | answered | John Doucette | CC BY-SA 3.0 |