running

What is it? Moderate intensity exercise is somewhere between walking and sprinting, easy and hard. A common example is running/ jogging a long distance at a...

What is it? Interval training alternates periods of intense exercise (e.g. sprinting) with periods of recovery (recovery here means going slower such as jog...

What is it? Fartlek training – this funny word is Swedish for speed play and describes a variable pace workout where you run/cycle/row at different speeds a...

What is it? Tempo training – also known as Fast Continuous Running (FCR), lactate-threshold (LT) or anaerobic threshold training (AnT). As the glut of names...

What is it? Long slow distance exercise – LSD (!) for short – is the type of training most people associate with cardio. As the name cleverly suggests, LSD ...

While many runners never feel even the smallest tinge of boredom, for some of us - as much as we love running - it sometimes just gets a bit same ol’ same o...

The American College of Sports Medicine and other medical institutions link cardiovascular fitness with a reduced incidence of high blood pressure, heart at...