Is endurance training bad for you?

(Saarland University) In 2012, Belgium scientists published a study that concluded that repeated bouts of intensive endurance exercise at the elite level may result in the pathological enlargement of the right ventricle, which, according to the article, is associated with potential health hazards including sudden cardiac death. Sports medicine physicians have now tested these conclusions. The team could find no evidence that years of elite-level endurance training causes any long-term damage to ...