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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...