Threshold workouts are an important addition to any training plan. Their primary purpose is to boost your aerobic capacity (VO2 max) as well as increase your lactate threshold. These adaptations will ...

After the USA Track and Field Championships in August, Emily Infeld – who won the national title in the women’s 10,000 meters – told reporters she incorporated double thresholds into her training once ...

Carl Leivers began his career at Emory University where he coached the men’s cross country and distance track runners. During his time there, he earned multiple coach of the year honors and placed two ...

Training intensity distribution is all the rage. If you walk into a crowded auditorium of exercise physiologists and announce your feelings on it, you might start a fight or an orgy. People are ready ...

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Training and improving your lactate threshold is a common goal for cyclists—and for good reason. It helps you ride faster and harder for longer. Your threshold power also helps you get through hard ...

Runners all have different goals. But one goal that’s common for all is running for an entire race or workout. Sometimes that means shaving a couple of seconds, or perhaps minutes, off their current ...

Learn starts his training day with threshold running intervals, which he says are the most challenging part of his training. In a HYROX race, athletes run a total of 8 kilometers (about 5 miles), so ...