question. He's the director of Stanford University's Prevention Research Center and a man who's been at the epicentre of important health-fitness debates for 30 years. "Those first studies failed to eliminate some people who were thin because they smoked

Runners are divided into two camps: those who love numbers and those who don't. Members of the latter group prefer to focus on the Zen of running - they're always talking about the running "experience". This experience, they contend, is the essence of running – not mileage total...

-hour endurance warm-up, and then asked them to sprint hard for as long as they could. The results showed that the subjects who drank a C+P product lasted 36 per cent longer in the sprint than those who drank a C-only beverage, but Ivy used that early design again

in training distances, anaerobic capacity, and strength." A chapter in the International Olympic Committee's 1992 book Endurance and Sport reported a study of runners who did 12 weeks of regular training, plus "hill training with ‘bounce running'." After

, because it already exists. In the USA, Curves fitness gyms for women are springing up like weeds – 8,000 at the last count – selling just such a 30-minute programme.As ever, my question when I heard about this was: what’s in it for me? So I contacted a

During Endurance Exercise, in which he noted that the condition appeared to be caused "by voluntary hyperhydration". Yet if anyone read the paper beyond Noakes’s immediate family, there was little indication of it. Runners and Ironman triathletes kept

Like so many of the other firsts in my life – first school, first kiss, first child – I remember my first “runner’s high” as if it were yesterday. It came on a perfect October afternoon while I was running near a cider mill near my childhood home. A warm sun trickled through the ...

For as long as I’ve been running – and I recently passed the four-decade mark – I’ve been practising certain key principles of our sport. Run long to develop endurance. Run fast to build speed. Take recovery days as necessary. Sleep well. Eat a

hills at threshold) will build your endurance and strength ready for the second half of the race. Q. I've put together my own training schedule, and intend to run 27 miles four weeks prior to the race. Is this OK to do? Russell Gardham A. No

-burning, which gives you more endurance for long runs and marathons.Running shorter and faster burns more total calories per minute or mile, which helps you lose weight, including body fat. Faster running also