If you follow the run/walk method, you know alternating run and walk intervals can save energy and ultimately improve your overall pace. And if you progress those run/walk intervals the right way, you ...

Whether you ascribe to polarized training, pyramidal training, or sweet-spot training, ultimately all different training philosophies come down to mixing up easy training with hard training in various ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. New perk: Easily find new routes ...

Interval training has become very popular these days, thanks to high-intensity interval training, or HIIT. Proponents of this type of exercise say it delivers many of the benefits of a much longer ...

The phrase “putting the hammer down” commonly refers to drivers smashing the accelerator pedal to pick up a burst of speed, often to beat a waning yellow light. Runners use this idiom in much the same ...

Anyone that follows me on Strava might be used to seeing some micro-intervals in my workout reports. In addition to making cool looking reports, research has shown that these workouts are highly ...