Is Physical Exercise really good for you?

[dottypotter]

Someone I know had a heart attack while playing tennis.Someone else was telling me their friend died while playing football last month.
It got me thinking is physical exercise good for you or dangerous?

In general not exercising at all is more dangerous than smoking.
Deaths like that will be due to some sort of underlying medical reason.

This is like asking if eating vegetables is dangerous because someone once choked on a brocolli.

Do you know how dangerous it is to sit on your arse all your life and be sedentary? Very!

WTF?!?

Jesus wept. People here are so dumb.

How many people die relatively young each year who do no exercise - I don't have the stats but guessing that's considerably higher.

thousands of studies have shown exercise extends your life and keeps your heart healthy. The people you reference are the anomalies

Sounds to me like they had underlying conditions that were brought out during exercise, not that exercise itself was the cause.

In a very strong field this is quite possibly one of the most stupid things I have read on here.

Do you mean sport or exercise?
I've never played any sport (shudder) but I'm active.

Assuming you are actually asking a serious question.
Life in general is a dangerous business. Over-exertion can kill you, lying on a couch stuffing you face with pizza can kill you.
You can develop a life threatening allergy at any point to almost anything.
But to answer directly, physical exercise is generally a good thing, yes. It generally helps to promote longevity, but obviously there exceptions.
We all die in the end. Just wait.

Yes, it's fatal. I can't believe they let the Commonwealth Games go ahead, the heartless bastards.

This is the kind of question I'd imagine some be-whiskered old academic gentleman to ask in 1827 when rugby football had just taken off.

Yes, exercise is good for you!

These people probably didn't do enough exercise, that's why one game of football or tennis was too much for them...

It suits some people to believe exercise is dangerous, gives them a excuse as to not to do it.

Unfortunately people who are underactive are in for a very difficult time as they age and lose muscle mass, as well.

Have you really missed 40 years’ worth of public health information campaigns?

I’m not being nasty I just can’t see how anyone could have missed this.

I know someone who had a heart attack playing tennis

He was very overweight. You could wonder if the cause was tennis or his weight ...

Doing sport with that kind of intensity when you are obese is often Ill advised, most coaches or trainers would suggest a few months/years of gentle exercise first such as walking/swimming until you loose more weight and have better fitness

Tennis can be quite full on, especially if you are competitive

Hope your friend/acquaintance is ok OP

Tennis is awesome but you have to build it up slowly and sensibly

Wow.

Yep, believe it or not exercising is actually good for you and being obese isn’t! WHO’s have thought it?

Exercise is good for your brain, too.

The Nun Study found a correlation between exercise and dementa:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun_Study

So your anecdata trumps years and years of research?

“It got me thinking”

Pleaae be careful.

I know multiple people who have fallen down the stairs, and yet outrageously, in this country we are still building two-storey homes.

Furthermore, my downstairs neighbour tripped on a kerb (to be fair she was quite drunk). And yet people still leave the house and walk on pavements.

Life is unbelievably dangerous OP, best you take to your bed for the next 40 years.

Yes OP, sit on your arse watching telly and thank God you're not doing anything risky, like finding a passion for sport, or enjoying fresh air

Or they were on steroids…
Or they had undiagnosed heart murmurs

And what about all the people who exercise and don’t drop dead?