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I don't think a blanket exercise regimen of more is the way to go. I feel miserable when I exercise more than 5 times a week because it takes me at least one day to recover so piling on more exercise just keeps me in a constant state of recovery which is quite counterproductive. That being said I wonder what kind of diet those 100 mile a week runners are on to have such stamina.

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If you require more than a day to recover you should either be doing less strenuous exercise or you should be lowering your number of workouts per week.

I used to sit next to a 100+ mile/wk runner and he ate nothing out of the ordinary, just more of it (100miles of running is a 10-14k net calorie increase, depending on who you believe).

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