If you want to become a fitter and faster runner, especially if you have a target race in mind, the best thing that you can do is select and follow a structured training plan that aligns with your ...

The Swedish word for ‘speed play’, fartlek is one of the most common training sessions that I use with my athletes. The history of fartlek training dates back more than 80 years, when coaches and ...

Many inactive adults who tried a sampling of exercises preferred intense efforts to gentler workouts. By Gretchen Reynolds People who have never tried intense interval training might be surprised to ...

Maybe you’ve tried high-intensity interval training (HIIT) as a way to balance out your running and didn’t love it. But have you tried SIT? A recent study in the journal Psychology of Sport and ...

Sprint interval training leads to different adaptations in mitochondria compared to traditional endurance training Photo: Getty Images, Niels Starnick; Collage: FITBOOK How training affects cells is ...

It's been eight years since a team of Norwegian scientists from NTNU's Cardiac Exercise Research Group began collecting data on the effects of exercise training on all-cause mortality in older adults ...