Training, mythology, and the stories of those who already have their medal.

Poor sleep won't help you burn more fat, but it will cost you strength and turn your usual effort into an uphill slog. What to do with your session after a bad night.
A study of 14,689 people and more than four million nights puts a curfew on hard sessions. If you go to bed at 11.30pm, here's your timetable.
Twelve weeks, two groups and an awkward result: those who went to the gym improved their power; those who did strength work only on the bike didn't. Here's the routine.
Every time a headline reports a cardiac arrest at a local race, we all think the same thing. Here's what cardiology actually knows, without alarmism or embellishment.
The American College of Sports Medicine has updated its resistance training guidelines seventeen years on. Here is what they say in figures you can use on Monday: how many days, how many sets, how much load, and why the gym has become optional.
A meta-analysis of 27 trials and 970 adults puts figures to exercise snacks: bursts of under a minute spread through the day. They improve fitness, blood pressure and cholesterol. The scales, however, do not notice a thing.
The 61st Behobia-San Sebastián is run on Sunday 8 November. Fourteen weeks to go — not many, not few: exactly enough. Here is the plan, block by block, with the climbs, the descents and the taper in their proper place.
Six in ten Spaniards played sport last year and one in four does something every day, according to the 2024/25 Sports Habits Survey. We look at the numbers for what they are: a portrait, not an exam.
On 31 July we released version 2.5.0. Metal coins you earn, a challenge with no finish line, 5 € for you and your friend, and an app rebuilt from top to bottom. Here is what changes and why.