Heart-health in youth linked to cognitive skills later in life

I spend a lot of time exercising outdoors and I need a new heart rate monitor. What should I look for?

Andean Adventure Eating dirt in the land of fire January 17, 1997 Taking a break on the road from Ushuaia to Rio Grande I remember once hearing that each human consumes 4 pounds of dirt a year on average. That being the case, in the last…

Get your protein in while pleasing your sweet tooth

I want to shed a few pounds and move closer to my speed goals, but all the recommended recovery foods are high-carb and high-calorie. Will using the Paleo Diet make it more difficult to train for the next big race?

On-the-go fitness tools for athletes

Every year, Katie Arnold spends a month at her parents' cabin on an island in Ontario. Great for relaxation, but not so much for training.

Skate time with the Telluride Snow Leopards The author's little rippers have fun on the track [Emily Shoff] In his spare time, Scholtes helps coach the Snow Leopards, a local Nordic ski group for school-age kids. The only drill he’ll sometimes run is one in which kids remove one…

I’ve been seeing a lot of oddly shaped chainrings on my group rides lately. Does everyone else know something I don’t? Are those chainrings making the other guys faster?

Last night, big-wave surfer Mark Visser gathered up a helicopter, a jet ski, a buoyancy vest tricked out with LED lights, and a surfboard  laced with submarine lighting built for NASA, and took off for Jaws. At 2:00 am local time, he caught a 30-footer off Maui for a…