Danger of over exercise

Gyms and health workout centers are quite popular with younger generations nowadays.
Gone are the days where young people practice qigong, taichi or other form of breathing exercise. Instead, what we are seeing today is modern repetitive aerobic strenuous exercise such as jogging, weight lighting and other high intensity workouts.

Quite often, health conscious people spend on the average like half an hour or more daily in the gym workout and there are some who go to the extreme of spending almost 3 hours and beyond in daily in the gym workout.

No doubt exercise is good for health, one has to be cautious though so as not to over do it due to the fact that over exercise could just be as harmful as not exercising at all. Know your body limits and don't push nor exert yourself beyond what your body is able to take. If you experience dizziness, abnormal fast heart beat or difficulty in catching your breath or vomiting after strenuous exercise stop the workout immediately.

There has been quite a number of cases whereby healthy people otherwise supposedly in excellent health suddenly collapsed and died while exercising on treadmills or other high intensity workouts. Certainly not all deaths were attributed directly due to exercise, however it is evident that strenuous exercise in one form or another is able to trigger dangerous and harmful body reactions.

A well balance and progressively adjusted exercise is good for the heart. Excessive exercise could increase blood pressure and this may lead to uncontrollable heart palpitation and heart failure. There are contradiction findings as to whether exercise is good for heart problematic patients.
As a safety guide, light exercised lasting 15 minutes or less daily is recommended to begin with. Generally most doctors agree that strenuous and high intensity workout is harmful to those with heart complications, high blood pressure, diabetic and other

Repetitive strenuous exercise may cause stiffness and soreness of neck,shoulder, arm, joint,upper and lower back. Repetitive strenuous over exercise causes chronic muscle strain and pull. The muscle becomes stronger,tighten and pull 2 or more bones closer together and this may result in stress and strains or tears to soft tissue.

Exercise stimulate the body hormone response and reduce insulin. High intensity and over exercise can cause enormous oxidative stress and result in antioxidant insufficiency. Some of the antioxidant that are affected by over exercise are coenyzyme Q10, magnesium and vitamin E.

Severe iron deficiencies can also be noted on female that over exercise. Over exercise can cause oxidation of LDL (good cholesterol) and set a person up for cardiac events and sudden death. Supercharged sympathetic nervous system can lead to cardiac arrest and sudden death.

In summary exercise is certainly good for health when carry out in moderation and progressively adjusted to suit one's body ability and tolerance. If possible try to get a fitness instructor or doctor to advice on appropriate form of exercise that is best suited to your health condition. Over exercise and strenuous exercise is harmful and should be avoided for those who have health complications.