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What Happens to Your Body When You Try to Lift Your Absolute Maximum
4+ hour, 45+ min ago (793+ words) What Happens to Your Body When You Try to Lift Your Absolute Maximum'outsideonline.com New Research Suggests There's a Better Way to Track Strength Training Than the One-Rep Max If there's one concept in strength training that even an endurance…...
You Don’t Need Sit-Ups—Try This 5-Minute Core Workout Instead
1+ week, 3+ day ago (335+ words) Engage your core" is a common cue in exercise classes, but core activation is actually a pretty automatic process. Unlike other common ab exercises, such as crunches and sit-ups, that primarily just work your rectus abdominis (the front-side ab muscles…...
Your Training Plan Could Be Missing Something Simple
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (844+ words) Mental fatigue is one of the big ideas in modern sports science. We've always known that tired muscles slow us down; now we recognize that a tired brain can do the same. But we shouldn't confuse "big ... This Is the…...
Why Your Hardest Workouts Might Be Overkill
2+ week, 4+ day ago (761+ words) Why Your Hardest Workouts Might Be Overkill'Outside Magazine Why 7 Out of 10 Is the Effort Sweet Spot for Running Workouts A friend of mine ran for the University of Arkansas during its dynasty years in the 1990s. Each fall, a new cohort…...
Knee Pain When You Run? Here's How to Stop It.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (613+ words) To help you stay on the road and trails (and out of the doctor's office), we lay out everything you need to know about avoiding knee pain when you run, so you can continue logging miles for years to come....
One Long Run May Be More Dangerous Than You Think
3+ week, 17+ hour ago (678+ words) Back in 2019, the researchers behind this study examined how running injuries actually develop in real people. They asked 5,205 Garmin watch users to upload their runs for 18 months and promptly record any running-related injuries that occurred during that time period. After…...
This Advice from Search and Rescue Experts May Someday Save Your Life
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1148+ words) Search and rescue (SAR) missions aren't all helicopter hoists and cliff hangs. During most rescues, SAR teams hike into the backcountry to help tired, cold, and underprepared people who planned to be back home by dinnertime. Typical rescues aren't epic,…...
These Bindings Solve Snowboarding's Most Annoying Problem
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (477+ words) As a young 20-something living in San Francisco, I had the good fortune of having friends who worked for snowboard binding company Switch. They got me gear'a used Rossignol board, and Switch boots and bindings'and we'd all head up to…...
Scientists Say Exercise May Not Burn as Many Calories as You Think
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (848+ words) Back in 2012, an evolutionary anthropologist named Herman Pontzer published some baffling data from his time among the Hadza, a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania. Using a sophisticated technique ... Does Exercise Actually Burn Calories? Back in 2012, an evolutionary anthropologist named Herman…...
How Cheering Can Make Runners Faster, According to New Research
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (299+ words) This is a good protocol to use when you're in a lab cheering on someone who's doing a VO2 max test on a treadmill. It's not so good on the sidelines of a marathon, where you don't have the option of…...