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 ...

The PT pyramid is a classic go-to workout system that continues to help people build a solid base of stamina and endurance with common calisthenics-testing exercises today. By design, it is a warmup, ...

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 ...

To most of the world, pyramids are synonymous with ancient Egypt, but to fitness buffs it’s the favored form of resistance training. The name may be foreign to some, but pyramid training has struck ...

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 ...

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