RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Endurance training: is it bad for you? JF Breathe JO Breathe FD European Respiratory Society SP 140 OP 147 DO 10.1183/20734735.007016 VO 12 IS 2 A1 Giuseppe Morici A1 Claudia I. Gruttad’Auria A1 Pierpaolo Baiamonte A1 Emilia Mazzuca A1 Alessandra Castrogiovanni A1 Maria R. Bonsignore YR 2016 UL http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/12/2/140.abstract AB Educational aimsTo illustrate the characteristics of endurance exercise training and its positive effects on health.To provide an overview on the effects of endurance training on airway cells and bronchial reactivity.To summarise the current knowledge on respiratory health problems in elite athletes.Endurance exercise training exerts many positive effects on health, including improved metabol­ism, reduction of cardiovascular risk, and reduced all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Intense endurance exercise causes mild epithelial injury and inflammation in the airways, but does not appear to exert detrimental effects on respiratory health or bronchial reactivity in recreational/non-elite athletes. Conversely, elite athletes of both summer and winter sports show increased susceptibility to development of asthma, possibly related to environmental exposures to allergens or poor conditioning of inspired air, so that a distinct phenotype of “sports asthma” has been proposed to characterise such athletes, who more often practise aquatic and winter sports. Overall, endurance training is good for health but may become deleterious when performed at high intensity or volume.Endurance training is good for health but may become deleterious when performed at high intensity or volume http://ow.ly/4n9jR4