What a New Study Tells Us About Heart Health for Aging Triathletes

August 15, 2024

In a world where triathletes, especially long-course triathletes, instinctively know many hours of training are required to race a five, six, or even 15-hour event, when it comes to heart health, scientists are learning that there is a tipping point for hours trained at high intensity—after which the heart benefits of exercise begin to decrease. Beyond this point, the risks of cardiac events and mortality actually start to increase again until they approach that of a sedentary individual. Triathlete