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Article: Learning to match goals with limits
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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There's a fine line between being a well-trained recreational
endurance athlete and an ailing one.
Renowned runner Frank Shorter, who has logged more than 100,000
miles, has boiled down the issue to a battle of two concepts:
exercise quotient vs. orthopedic limit.
An exercise quotient is the amount of exercise a person needs to
do in a particular session before feeling satisfied, Shorter writes
in the foreword to a new book, "Running Injuries," edited by
Milwaukee orthopedic surgeon Gary Guten. In addition to Guten, who
writes a chapter on leg injuries to runners, several other Milwaukee
sports medicine experts wrote chapters.
Very often, an exercise quotient exceeds what is ...