energyandstruct
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idk about data but anecdotally, I was a pretty solid distance runner in high school and ran probably more than is healthy, from the time I was in middle school more sporadically, to intense running schedules when i was in high school. did this on and off more sporadically in college but wasn't sedentary, although there were many stressors in college that could've weakened me. Lyme was initial trigger of CFS. I know there's a lot of iffy stuff with various lyme tests and some quacks in the field, but this was really just an open-and-shut lyme case, with fever, bullseye, positive tests.Maffetone training seems to be a solution then, ie monitoring your heart rate during exertion and making sure it stays below around 180 - age, and not increasing the intensity of your workouts over time more than that your heart rate stays in this range. I'm guessing that the reason graded exercise therapy has not been very effective for CFS in general is because it does not consistently emphasize heart rate monitoring to make sure people stay in their true aerobic zone.
Is there any data about the background of people who develop CFS, if they are athletic or sedentary to a greater or lesser extent than the general population?
decent percentage of ppl on CFS forums seem to have been bodybuilders or active in some way.