How did a professional Football player at the age of 27 get a Stroke?

Question

Footballers are one of the fitest people on earth. Can being too fit be bad for your body.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, a stroke is not a respector of age or fitness. Like many things it strikes when you least expect it. Anyway I hope Sol gets well soon as I remember him from his days at Swindon.
Best of Luck for a full and speedy recovery.

Answer 2

Footballers are NOT 'fitter' than other people.

'Fit' doesn't mean 'hard', 'fearless' or 'unstoppable'. It actually means 'suitable'. The demands of many sports are not suitable for the healthy human body.

Physical activity is needed by the body, like a vitamin or water. Overdosing on vitamins or water is possible, and it has been done by people who think that if some is good, then more must be better.

Sport is the OPPOSITE of fitness.

Sports require sacrifice; the greater your level of achievement, the more sacrifice is involved. Hard training puts you at risk of injuries that wouldn't otherwise happen. Most high-level sports players retire with permanent injuries, and many are actually playing through barely healed injuries during their professional career. The idea is that the available glory is worth the sacrifice; often health is what you sacrifice, for results. Fitness is something that you USE UP to achieve those results.

Fitness is internal, and the achievements are internal and personal. It works like saving up money.Fitness can INCREASE throughout life, if you put a little bit away very regularly, and use it sparingly. You can get away with using a huge amount all at once, IF you do this rarely. You can get away with 'borrowing' from your future, but it puts you at risk of all kinds of injuries.

Just as saving cannot protect you from financial disaster, physical fitness cannot guarantee perfect health.

Stroke is caused by so many things, that you can increase your risk by over-exerting yourself, OR by under-exertion.

Fitness can protect you in several ways, but assuming that athletes are fitter than others, or less vulnerable, can be dangerously misleading.

Answer 3

strokes have nothing to do with age. They are brought on by many factors , usually blood pressure has some part involved in them. And even if a person looks healthy does not mean they are healthy.Cholesterol is a major factor in today's lifestyles which clog arteries. Then theres a weak vein in some that is never detected. realize some of the fittess people have major heart attacks or strokes as they are not diagnosed with anything as they show no symptoms. They have a defect from birth and it will never show up until physically challenging exercise brings them into play by the person having a stroke or heart attack.

Answer 4

Fitness is a very misunderstood word. Having bigger muscles or endurance or speed doesn't ensure that you are fit. In most sports, people concentrate on one aspect of health. In football, depending on position it is either strength or speed. Judging from their appearance you can the offensive linemen are not very healthy!.

Fitness can be defined as the measure of how efficiently your body functions - the nervous system, circulatory system, the respiratory system, the digestive system and metabolic mechanism work. Exercise and diet can help improving this. Strength, endurance, flexibility and cardio ability are only some of the ways to measure these

Answer 5

To be fit is never bad for you. But...it is the supplements that you take with it that can have an effect on your health and your live! Professional sports people have a lot of pressure on them to perform and be GOOD. so they sometimes use things to boost their performance, illegal things in some matters, but mostly it is things that give them more energy. this makes the hart pump faster and if you use to much of it too often....it can cause your live!! so don't take any energy boosters when exercising, stay fit and drink water!

Answer 6

there is no such thing as being too fit, being fit means being able to cope with whatever your life style throws at you, he obviously failed in that. The case is overworking yourself and pushing yourself too far damages your body as getting fit should be a steady progression, not a huge body killing over night thing.