Throughout my years of coaching and training on my own, the subject of pushing to failure (or beyond) with heavier weights or higher reps has been either the goal or something to avoid. A new ...

Physical skill transcends sport and can be recognized in its absolute form—speed, power, coordination—across a variety of athletic endeavors. But less visible, and perhaps less considered, is the ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. New perk: Easily find new routes ...

Nick Heil is a contributing editor at Outside and the author of Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The implications are huge. If ...

The concept of "threshold" is pretty intuitive in endurance sports. Below threshold, you feel like you could keep going indefinitely; above threshold, fatigue rises rapidly and forces you to stop. But ...

If your joints howl in agony every time you bench heavy, or your elbows wince at the idea of another max-effort row, there’s a smarter, more joint-friendly way to build serious muscle—one that top ...

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Recent statistics pointing to employee training fatigue, particularly in the context of IT and security training, highlight a growing concern about the effectiveness of training programs and their ...