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 ...

Pyramid training systems are nothing new. I have been using this "perfect workout" since the 1980s, when I got schooled on it at my first SEAL PT run conducted by active-duty SEALs stationed at the ...

If you have ever done a pyramid workout, you may remember that your first one was a challenge, but your next few pyramids went much better. Maybe you could go higher up the pyramid (more work sets) or ...

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 ...

THERE'S A REASON why “3 sets of 10” has been a strength training mainstay since at least the 1950s: The rep scheme works. Decades of research and reams of real-world evidence prove that hefting a load ...