Last time, we talked about what kind of energy is used for ATP resynthesis. We mentioned that VO₂max serves as a standard ...

The moment that lingered in my mind after a recent triathlon-science conference came from a panel discussion with “gold-medal coaches,” including Iñaki Arenal, head of the Spanish high-performance ...

If you told high school me that I would one day run a marathon, I would have called you crazy. I wanted to believe it, but my cardio endurance was meh. A few not-so-quick miles on the treadmill felt ...

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Over the past 15 years, there has been an explosion in fitness fads promoting all sorts of dubious concepts. Perhaps the worst of all is the idea that shorter, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) ...

In 2012, Belgian scientists published a study that concluded that repeated bouts of intensive endurance exercise at the elite level may result in the pathological enlargement of the right ventricle, ...

Even the best athletes in the endurance and strength worlds tend to excel in one area and perform poorly in the other. Even the best athletes in the endurance and strength worlds tend to excel in one ...

The neurotransmitter brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) acts in the muscle, so that during strength training endurance muscle fiber number is decreased. Researchers have more closely ...