Training intensity distribution is all the rage. If you walk into a crowded auditorium of exercise physiologists and announce your feelings on it, you might start a fight or an orgy. People are ready ...

Runners throw around the term “tempo run” like confetti. It’s confusing, even for well seasoned athletes, because it’s not a cut-and-dried definition like a lactate threshold workout. Frequently, ...

It’s a training method associated with seemingly superhuman elite athletes: Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the Olympic Champion in the 1500 meters and 5000 meters; Australian record holder in the mile ...

I wrote last week about the benefit of rest-based interval workouts and briefly touched on the fatigue threshold. This week is all about understanding what this threshold is and how it can help you ...

This week, I’ve mostly been googling ‘Norwegian Singles’. It’s not a dating search term, but the buzziest of training philosophies. Its creator, James Copeland, a former time trial cyclist turned ...

The total training load overlaps with some of the research on the optimum adaptation stimulus for lactate threshold in very trained runners, and splitting it into two sessions allows for more ...