Cardiovascular Exercise ???

[billt]

I hold on to the hand holds. I don't pump my arms like when you see people walking, carrying those weights.

[Solus]

Bill, can I ask (probably a silly) question, please?
On the treadmill, are you holding on to the handle bars, or otherwise resting your arms/hands on the front of the thing? I got the third best results in the history of those things at Ft. Riley at the time. I'm not in that kind of shape, and never have been. When I'm holding onto the handles, I can go on forever on the thing without feeling it.
Don't know if that helps, but that was the observation I made at the time..
Peanut gallery signing off!! 

There is a risk in that type of exercise.....going forever with no strain tells your body that that level of development is all it needs to maintain. It will allow your cardiovascular performance to deteriorate to that level.

Going "all out" for a few moments, at what ever level that is for you, resting and repeating for for 30 minutes a day might work better for you. 

[billt]

First it was Jim Fixx, who died at 52 of a heart attack. Then there was "Pistol Pete" Maravitch who died at age 40 of heart failure. Now Darryl Dawkins has died at 58 of a heart attack. I'm really starting to wonder about all of this "staying in shape" crap? None of these guys had an ounce of fat on them, and were active as hell throughout their lives. What good did it do?

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/08/27/report-darryl-dawkins-former-basketball-player-dead-at-58/?intcmp=hplnws

[Big Frank]

If you're in great shape you may live a couple of extra years but they might just be a couple of drooling like an idiot diaper wearing years. I don't know if it's been mentioned but always talk to your doctor before starting or changing an exercise routine.

[billt]

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/09/13/moses-malone-nba-hall-famer-dead-at-60/

Just read that yet another long time NBA star, Moses Malone just dropped dead at 60.

 "Fellow Hall-of-Famer Calvin Murphy said Malone died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack, according to FOX26 sports director Mark Berman."

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[lhprop1]

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/09/13/moses-malone-nba-hall-famer-dead-at-60/

Just read that yet another long time NBA star, Moses Malone just dropped dead at 60.

 "Fellow Hall-of-Famer Calvin Murphy said Malone died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack, according to FOX26 sports director Mark Berman."

Sad, but not unexpected.  The bigger you are, the harder your organs have to work just to keep you going.  It's like putting a 4-banger in a race car.  It'll get you around the track, but the harder you step on the pedal, the sooner it's gonna blow.

I see this with a lot of my friends and fellow competitors on the strongman circuit.  Add in the PED's that some of them are most undoubtedly taking, and it's a ticking time bomb.