The first rule of scientific fight club is that you have to agree on what you're fighting about. A newly published debate on the merits of polarized training in endurance athletes, in Medicine & ...

The mantra of polarised training is ‘go easy or go hard – never in between’. But what if that’s all wrong? Rob Kemp meets the coach who says the middle is where the magic happens For more than two ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. One of the big debates in endurance ...

A study has indicated that faster non-elite marathon times are associated with a pyramidal training approach (Yui Mok/ PA) One of the largest ever studies of marathon runners has given clues on how ...

Holding a PhD in exercise, metabolism and female physiology, Dr Alyssa Olenick studies women exclusively. As a lifelong athlete, she's also completed over 17 ultramarathons and a 100 mile-run, and is ...