Abs workouts do not need to be long to be very hard, but even so when a video popped up on my YouTube feed claiming to be the "hardest abs workout ever" and it was only 10 minutes long, I was suitably ...

Have you ever noticed that two runs with the exact same pace can feel completely different? After five World Marathon Majors, a dozen half marathons, two Boston Marathon qualifying times, and years of ...

During a long run, focus on easy pace for the majority of the workout. Then accelerate to your gray zone effort for the last several miles (aiming for that 5 to 6 RPE). For example, in a 14-mile run, ...

I’ve always been partial to Dunbar, the character in Catch-22 who seeks out boredom and discomfort in order to make time pass more slowly, thus effectively prolonging his life. It’s a sensation that’s ...

A friend of mine ran for the University of Arkansas during its dynasty years in the 1990s. Each fall, a new cohort of wide-eyed recruits would show up for their first workout with returning NCAA ...

As a Portland fitness instructor for 11 years and counting, Lianne Saffer has done a lot of hard workouts. There’s bodybuilding, her years spinning at BurnCycle in the Pearl, and workouts in the famed ...

If you need a reminder of how incredibly popular the Insanity workout — a super-hard, DVD-based workout created by celebrity fitness trainer and choreographer Shaun T— was back in the late 2000s, how ...

You lace up for a workout, start your warmup, and immediately feel like something is off. Your legs feel heavy and your pace ...

Thousands of people each year partake in the 75-day program meant to build “mental toughness,” according to its creator, but health experts caution the program may be too rigid and intense. By Lola ...