Aging and Possible Benefits or Negatives of Lifelong Endurance Running: How Master Male Athletes Differ from Young Athletes and Elderly Sedentary?

Matej Vajda, Ľudmila Oreská (), Alena Černáčková, Martin Čupka, Veronika Tirpáková, Ján Cvečka, Dušan Hamar, Feliciano Protasi, Nejc Šarabon, Sandra Zampieri, Stefan Löfler, Helmut Kern and Milan Sedliak
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Matej Vajda: Hamar Institute for Human Performance, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius University in Bratislava, 814 69 Bratislava, Slovakia
Ľudmila Oreská: Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius University in Bratislava, 814 69 Bratislava, Slovakia
Alena Černáčková: Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius University in Bratislava, 814 69 Bratislava, Slovakia
Martin Čupka: Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius University in Bratislava, 814 69 Bratislava, Slovakia
Veronika Tirpáková: Institute of Sports Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Slovak Medical University, 831 01 Bratislava, Slovakia
Ján Cvečka: Hamar Institute for Human Performance, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius University in Bratislava, 814 69 Bratislava, Slovakia
Dušan Hamar: Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius University in Bratislava, 814 69 Bratislava, Slovakia
Feliciano Protasi: Center for Advanced Studies and Technology (CAST), University G. D’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Nejc Šarabon: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Primorska, SI-6310 Izola, Slovenia
Sandra Zampieri: Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Stefan Löfler: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rehabilitation Research, 1100 Vienna, Austria
Helmut Kern: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rehabilitation Research, 1100 Vienna, Austria
Milan Sedliak: Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius University in Bratislava, 814 69 Bratislava, Slovakia

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 20, 1-11

Abstract: Regular physical activity, recommended by the WHO, is crucial in maintaining a good physical fitness level and health status and slows down the effects of aging. However, there is a lack of knowledge of whether lifelong endurance running, with a volume and frequency above the WHO limits, still brings the same benefits, or several negative effects too. The present study aims to examine the protentional benefits and risks of lifelong endurance running training in Master male athletes, as this level of physical activity is above the WHO recommendations. Within the study, four main groups of participants will be included: (1) endurance-trained master athletes, (2) endurance-trained young athletes, (3) young sedentary adults, and (4) elderly sedentary. Both groups of athletes are strictly marathon runners, who are still actively running. The broad spectrum of the diagnostic tests, from the questionnaires, physical fitness testing, and blood sampling to muscle biopsy, will be performed to obtain the possibility of complexly analyzing the effects of lifelong endurance physical activity on the human body and aging. Moreover, the study will try to discover and explain new relationships between endurance running and diagnostic parameters, not only within aging.

Keywords: seniors; endurance runners; physical fitness; muscle aging; body system deterioration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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