Train to get your muscles to do what you want By Pete Magill Published August 2010 Most runners don’t think of themselves as muscle-bound. That’s a term reserved for football players, weight lifters, or Charles Atlas when he kicks sand … Weiterlesen
Strategies for coping with the hardest moment in running: getting out the door By Linda Flanagan; Image by Nathan Parkel Published May 15, 2014 We love to run. But sometimes getting started feels insurmountable. We put it off in the morning, … Weiterlesen
By DAVID S. LUDWIG and MARK I. FRIEDMANMAY 16, 2014 FOR most of the last century, our understanding of the cause of obesity has been based on immutable physical law. Specifically, it’s the first law of thermodynamics, which dictates that energy can neither … Weiterlesen
First-time marathoners showed no change in knee cartilage after six months of running. By Alex Hutchinson. Pretty much every study that looks at runners and knee problems, whether it’s a multi-decade longitudinal study or a massive cross-sectional study, has found … Weiterlesen
A meta-analysis finds that 3- to 5-minute intervals produce the biggest VO2max boost. By Alex Hutchinson; Image by Marcos Chin Every once in a while, I get a reminder that Twitter really can be useful. In this case, it was … Weiterlesen