It’s a problem that affects almost everyone – from someone attempting their first 5K to elite endurance athletes.
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There’s no single explanation for Tadej Pogačar’s dominance. His greatness lies in possessing all of cycling’s major weapons at once.
Gels can provide a quick source of energy – but they can also come with downsides.
A new study casts doubt on the simplistic idea that carbs ‘fuel’ our muscles during exercise.
Endurance athletes have a four times higher risk of atrial fibrillation.
Women are closing the gap on males in many ultra-endurance sports because of a mix of physiology, metabolism, and strategy.
People who regularly engage in significant amounts of exercise, as endurance athletes do, may develop enlarged hearts. While athletic heart is adapted for performance, it can be cause for concern.
Sports gels and protein powders can meet the increased nutritional needs of endurance athletes in a convenient form. But they do pack downsides too.
Try to avoid eating an hour or two before a workout.
Heart block typically isn’t serious, but can cause the heart to beat more slowly or skip beats.
The sport of trail running is one of the fastest growing in the world, but now is facing two major challenges at the same time, the Covid-19 pandemic and ecological crisis.
Here’s how elite endurance athletes differ from the rest of us.
Those with the condition could take several weeks, months, or even years to properly recover.
Training data collected by fitness trackers may be useful to predict marathon performance
I wanted to see whether this extreme example of a team effort could tell us anything about the workplace.
A new study suggests Neanderthals may have lived in woodlands rather than tundras, meaning they were most likely sprinters.
An ultra-marathon runner and exercise physiologist describes what it’s like to take part in an ultra-endurance event, and the consequences it had on his body.
New research aims to better understand the bodies of runners, so that ‘smart’ nutritional supplements can be developed.
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.
In July, Scots cyclist Mark Beaumont will attempt to cycle around the world in 80 days, smashing the world record by 43 days. Here’s what he has to get right.
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