Scrmbir 1982 posted in May of 2015 and states it right. I'm 87 in a month and am still getting around pretty well, all be it slower. One day at time and remember Long Slow Distance really works. I don't take any supplements.
Have pain, but deal with it.
Long slow distance can work well depending on what you want to do. It is not at all efficient but if you have badly damaged joints like me long slow distance is all I can do with my right leg after 3 surgeries on the ankle and the knee. There are no good tools and bad tools it just depends on what your goal is. It is almost as stupid as someone saying a hammer is a better tool than a screwdriver. Well unless you define "better" and at "What" the answer might be ignorant nonsense or perfectly accurate.
Generally, a simple answer is for fools, the ignorant or those too busy to learn and think for themselves. Life is too short to waste time doing anything halfway or partly wrong. One of the problems with our country is that people love to consume the overly simplified things that out politicians and expert tell them about just about everything. If you attempt to explain things in detail correctly their eye's glaze over and turn off.
Long slow cardio, unfortunately, builds efficiency and increases aerobic enzymes but it does absolutely nothing for cardio capacity. In fact, long slow cardio works best by tearing down tissues and getting rid of them because excess muscle and organ mass hurts efficiency. In fact in dumbed down parlance we know know that endurance is not one thing but in crudest terms is 3 different things and 2 different energy systems at work and each form of endurance require a different form of training and has little carry over from one to the other so no single system of training will fully develop it.
World class athletes and coaches have known this for many decades it has taken researchers a long time to catch up and find a way to explain what top coaches and athletes have known.
Doctor Cooper consider the father of modern aerobic was a liar and a fraud. The idea's he put forward were never backed up by the results of his actual research, in fact, his own research went 100% against what he recommended. In fact, his aerobics theory was based on research done of Union Long SHoreman that unloaded ships on the Docks which was not at all reflective of long slow cardio.
Just like 50 years ago they knew cholesterol from your diet had nothing to do with heart disease. All the fake fats and low-fat foods they came up with where 1000X worse than what Americans had been eating before. No matter what the research actually said the public ate it up and doctors prescribed and are still prescribing drugs to lower cholesterol. You can either listen to tot he expert and be clueless or educate yourself. The truth is always out there.
That is why I seldom join groups like this or answer questions. Too many people confuse opinions with facts. Most people do not want the truth they want simple. When it comes to the human body and training for specific traits there really are no secrets left unlike most of the bodys functions when it comes to increasing speed, endurance, strength, jumping, muscle mass it has all been figured out long ago but it is anything but simple!
