Saw this from Art de Vany's site and it reinforced what we've been
talking about (and the way we trained) for years...

This is in reverence to a well-researched article on exercise-related
deaths from Men's Heatlh.

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?
site=MensHealth&channel=health&category=heart.disease&conitem=6fe999ed
bbbd201099edbbbd2010cf

It adds new statistics and explanations for the benefits and risks of
exercise. As with nearly everything in human physiology, there is an
increasing, but concave, benefits curve; the benefits of exercise
rise, reach a peak, and then decline.

There is an optimum or a range of optima; to be below or above the
optimum range is harmful. Exercise beyond the optimal region is
destructive and dangerous. 6 METS is a good upper limit for
continuing activity. One can hit 8 or even 12 METS briefly in weight
training. The hormesis concept tells us that these very brief
stresses make us more able to tolerate the real stresses that life
brings.

Weight lifting shines for its benefits and low risk. Running can be
truly dangeous. Other aerobic endurance activities share the risks of
excessive running.

Your training should not be some long drawn out affair for
90minutes. A match or a fight does NOT last 140 minutes! (if it
did, you are doing something wrong). I remember when I was a kid an
my boxing coach made us run "1 mile for every round we are going to
fight". I don't need to tell you what a monumental waste of time
it is to jog/run for 3 miles to train for a BOXING match.

Train Hard, Get Done, go to the House.

I may write an article in the coming months entitled, "Why Running
Sucks" (to oversimplify).