Heart "capsule" a myth or a reality???

Simple answer: false.

Complex answer:

Not sure where you heard this from. Your heart will grow, more specifically the left ventricle wall, in response to any exercise be it running, basketball, baseball, etc. This is known as an "athlete's heart". When you play basketball, baseball, football do you run? Yes. When training for these sports do you "run laps"? Yes. Will it grow bigger due to running? Of course, but it doesn't matter if you start at 15 or 35 it will still grow.

Alan

I heard it from former champion of Soviet Union.He has run 5000m 13.17 and 10000m 27.40!

Erik wrote:

I heard it from former champion of Soviet Union.He has run 5000m 13.17 and 10000m 27.40!

That obviously makes him an expert then.

luv2run wrote:

Erik wrote:

I heard it from former champion of Soviet Union.He has run 5000m 13.17 and 10000m 27.40!

That obviously makes him an expert then.

I would have said no also, but since Alan ageeed, I must be wrong.

Hmmm..can think of more than a few that started as soccer players and when on to become world class runners - guess their caspuled hearts did OK.

I mean that if you played soccer and you did not do aerobic runs in the same pace before and after playing?!

Those men who started as a soccer player and were able to become world class runners could born in mountains and maybe they were talented.

Erik wrote:

I mean that if you played soccer and you did not do aerobic runs in the same pace before and after playing?!

Those men who started as a soccer player and were able to become world class runners could born in mountains and maybe they were talented.

And maybe it will rain tonight.

This is the dumbest theory I've ever heard.

This theory is completely false. Your heart mycoardium will hypertrophy and atrophy with use a disuse just like every other muscle in your body.

Increased heart rate = increased stress on your heart muscle (as was said before, specifically the left ventricular myocardium) = adaptation by increasing heart muscle.

I'm no doctor, but I do have a BS in Exercise Science and an ACSM certification. I think when it comes to knowing how the body works that trumps a 13:17 5k time.

As was previously stated. The heart is a muscle. It will hypertrophy just like any other muscle. Now, your ability to handle training may diminish in your later years due to loss of strength and flexibility. So that would be an explanation why a runner who started in his 30s might not improve as fast as a runner who started in his teens.

Alan

Totally with Alan on the heart issue.

Do know some decent younger runners that prematurely ended their running careers with ankle and ACL injuries, incurred while playing soccer recreationly. Bye- bye scholarships.

I had an EKG when I was 17 due to a shitty little epidose

that turned out to be esophogeal reflux. The doctor said I had the "enlarged" heart condition and I had only been running for a little over a year. And for the record I think playing ball games in your youth is a pretty good background to start running in your teens.