Erin Beresini is the author of Off Course: Inside the Mad, Muddy World of Obstacle Course Racing. She lives in Los Angeles with 10 bikes and a dresser full of spandex.
She won Olympic gold in a sport that chose her. Can she do the same in the one she truly loves?
The perfect summer day in this California beach town
Forget about counting reps in your head. This clever jump rope uses embedded LEDs to project that number in front of you.
American churches are building first-class gyms to get followers in shape and attract new members to the flock. Critics see lucrative businesses masked as ministries, but the programs are a spirited defense against our obesity epidemic.
On-the-go fitness tools for athletes
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How endurance athlete Patrick Sweeney puts away nearly 3,000 calories a day on the ketone diet
Goodbye crazy binges, hello almond butter?
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A crude guideline for randy athletes
A compelling case for ditching hill repeats
Inside Specialized and Stanford University’s new alliance to research cycling’s effects on kids with ADHD
The suit, filed after 28-year-old Avishek Sengupta drowned at the 2013 Tough Mudder Mid-Atlantic event, had major implications for the obstacle-course-racing industry
The secret to unlocking your athletic potential is in your genes, but scientists don’t know what they’re telling us—yet
And why they’re more susceptible to diet trends