Pre-race yoga sessions. Training guides and support from female Olympians. Chocolate milk toasts. Tampons stocked in every Porta-potty. You’ve never seen a race quite like this before—and it’s ...

Running might burn more calories minute-for-minute than walking, but that doesn’t make it superior for fat loss. In fact, fat loss coach Katie Penland says that quitting running for walking is the one ...

Women’s muscle mass across the lifespan has been mapped for the first time by Australian researchers who found resistance ...

‘Midlife women need to train differently from our 25-year-old selves,’ says leading women’s health coach and menopause ...

Beginner runners sometimes feel like their legs are heavy, as if they don’t have the strength to push off from the ground in order to get some speed. Of course, the more they run, the less this ...

When writer, runner, and group fitness instructor Haley Shapley prepared to climb Mount Rainier several years ago, she focused primarily on endurance training. She made it to the top, felt proud of ...

For a long time, the idea of any human running a mile faster than 4 minutes was thought of as the impossible. But in the months after England’s Roger Bannister finally broke that record in 1954, ...

David L. Ryan/Boston Globe / Getty Images Myths about women in sport date back at least to the dawn of the Olympics 2,800 years ago, when women weren't allowed to compete. These myths "remain hard to ...

A pulled muscle hinders your workout routine; sometimes, it feels like it takes forever to heal. Pulled muscles are one of ...

A perfectly-timed photo of Team USA Olympic runner Karissa Schweizer is going viral as it highlights her quad muscles to an unreal degree. Schweizer will represent the United States at the Olympic ...