If you decide to start following a structured training plan to improve your running or aim for a target race, you’ll probably soon come across the term ‘interval training’ . But if running is still ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I first heard about a fitness routine that promises the heart-pumping benefits of a sweaty bike ride in seven minutes, I brushed it off as little more than hype. I was wrong. Turns out it's ...

(Reuters Health) - Workouts that mix up a variety of intense exercises with brief recovery periods in between may help people lose more weight than chugging along at a steady pace on a treadmill or ...

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 ...

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 ...