Dr Norman Swan
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26,995 appearances
288 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2006
last heard 15 Sep
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So Teegan, you're my go to for fitness.
Am I?
Gosh, I'm so sorry.
Well you're always hanging off a wall or doing something that I could never conceive of doing.
Do you do it continuously?
It's like you'll do a climb up a wall one day and you'll do it the next or what's your what's your what's your routine?
What's your what's your
Yeah, 'cause one of the big debates is should you have a wee rest between these things that you're doing to allow your muscles to recover, or is that just a bit of a myth?
The show where we answer the health questions that everyone's asking.
Yes.
Or what happens between rest days, which is the exercise bits and then whether whether or not a rest day makes sense.
Yeah, and it's important to separate the two.
So there is evidence that when you do aerobic exercise for forty five minutes lifting your heart rate such that it's hard to have a conversation, for the next four days your coronary risk actually drops.
You're outrunning death and you slowly come back up to where you were before and then you take exercise and it comes down.
So in other words, the effects of physical activity are almost immediate on the body and protective.
But relatively short-lived.
But relatively short-lived.
Although you are on a track to becoming fitter.
In other words, over time, if you keep on doing it, your general level of fitness improves.
Yes, we do need to separate those.
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