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Front. Endocrinol. | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00880 Australian Institute of Sport, Australia Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Australia Exercise & Sport Research, School of Allied Health Sciences…

I had surgery two days ago. Because my own damn uterus was trying to kill me. Remember my previous post titled “True Blood ”? Feel free to go back and read (or listen) to that post but I'll recap. I learned I was severely anemic from…

Knowing she had the legal right to die helped Marieke Vervoort live her life. It propelled her to medals at the Paralympics. But she could never get away from the pain. Andrew Keh and Lynsey Addario spent almost three years reporting on Marieke…

An intersex ex-athlete who claims to have been coerced into harmful surgery that ruined her running career has been granted asylum amid fears for her life – raising major questions about World Athletics regulations governing such conditions.

Micah Herndon, 32, pictured at right above, is a retired Marine. He lost three friends when an improvised explosive device (IED) hit their vehicle in Afghanistan almost a decade ago, while he was working as the lead machine gunner in the convoy…

As a college athlete, my love for the weight room was greater than my love for the game it was preparing me for. When it came to strength training, it was the process that got me hooked. Being able to drive the human body's progress with something…

Chris Chavez Posted On December 2, 2019 Jenny Simpson has been a long-awaited guest for The CITIUS MAG Podcast and she finally sat down to run through her truly remarkable career from high school to 2019 before looking ahead to the 2020 Olympic…

OK, so you're going home for the holidays. You've packed your two most flattering black sweaters; downloaded half the Hallmark channel in case your parents' Wi-Fi is untrustworthy; triple-checked that anxiety medications are in your carry-on; and…

My mornings are the messiest part of my day. I do not rise and shine. Instead, I hit snooze on the alarm and throw the covers over my head. As I hear the early bus shuffle through my stop outside my window, my mind fills with thoughts from the…

Death threats were made against those testifying in the anti-doping inquiry into Sir Mo Farah's disgraced former coach, the man who brought down Alberto Salazar and the Nike Oregon Project has revealed. Almost two months after securing a four-year…

'COMEBACK QUEEN' METIVIER EYES OLYMPIC MARATHON TRIALS STANDARD AT 2019 HONOLULU MARATHON By Justin Britton with David Monti, @justin_britton & @d9monti (c) 2019 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved - Used with permission. HONOLULU (06-Dec) --…

One afternoon early last month, Julie Culley sat in her car and listened as Mary Cain's voice poured out of her phone. Cain, a former high school running prodigy, spoke for seven minutes in an opinion video published by the New York Times about the…

In 2014, Oiselle signed Olympian and pro runner Kara Goucher as a sponsored athlete for Oiselle - and that relationship continues today. A lot has happened in those six years: The 23-year USATF-Nike agreement The # MeToo movement The #…

On weeks like this, it helps to think back to something I learnt a few years ago from one of the all-time greats. It was March 2016, and as world U18 decathlon champion I was selected as one of four athletes to go on a training camp organised by…

Over the course of my 40-year career in the related professional fields of orthopedic and sports physical therapy and the performance enhancement training of athletes, I have been fortunate to work and associate with many outstanding, successful…

“E pluribus unum” — out of many, one — is one of America's traditional mottos. And you might think it would be reflected in reality. We aren't, after all, just united politically. We share a common language; the…

Wyoming Star Seems Poised For A Podium Finish At Nike Cross Nationals By Marlowe Hereford for DyeStat An article in the Rawlins Times from January ends with the sentence: “It's only a matter of time until the world knows who Sydney…

Gabriela DeBues-Stafford is having a good year. The University of Toronto alumna, who graduated from the Faculty of Arts & Science with a degree in psychology earlier this spring, is quickly becoming one of Canada's greatest middle-distance…

When Matt McDonald, 26, first arrived in Atlanta in 2015 to begin his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Georgia Tech University, he thought he might have to quit running. He had just graduated from Princeton University, where he won the Ivy League…

Gwen Jorgensen isn't letting go of her marathon goals. Her timeline is just changing. Heel surgery forced Jorgensen, who converted to distance running after winning the Rio Olympic triathlon, to pass up the Feb. 29 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials and…

The day Mike Posner was bit by a baby rattlesnake in eastern Colorado was the best one so far. He had been awake since 3 A.M. and had already walked 16 miles along a thin, two-lane highway with no shoulder when he felt a stab of pain and waited for…

About five months ago, Mallory Pugh and Lindsey Horan competed on soccer's biggest stage. They played for the U.S. Women's National Team and helped the team to its fourth FIFA World Cup title and back-to-back championships. On Sunday, they were…

Just the other day, in between brutal sets of squats at my local gym, I had an epiphany: training hard is really hard. You may be thinking, Yeah, that's not rocket science. But there's a difference between knowing something intellectually and…

You have probably heard people say you should “build your base” and “run mostly easy.” If you're anything like me when I started out, you put that advice in the same mental box as the people that say “pay…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — When Yale recruited Carol Roberts in 1977 to play field hockey and softball, the locker room for those sports was still about a half-mile from the women's playing fields. As Ms. Roberts recalled, both teams shared one…

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Meredith Tribble sets no limits on her demanding lifestyle. Married and mother of two young children, a full-time job, involved in her church, and all with the years steadily creeping up. There's room in there for more, she felt, as long as the day…

“Life isn't about what you have but the gifts you are given.” Those are the words echoed by 17-time Paralympic medallist Tatyana McFadden. Tatyana McFadden at an event held at Okura Sports Center in Setagaya, where the U.S. Olympic…

I'm staring at the sad remnants of a stir-fry: three shriveled pieces of bell pepper, a spoonful of sauce, and mouthful after mouthful of dry quinoa. I sigh, dump it into a bowl, and put it in the microwave. A week ago, I would have tossed these…

Betsie Van Der Meer via Getty Images I have yet to send out my Christmas cards this year, but the various steps necessary to complete this task have been weaving through my mind for months. I booked a session with a photographer at the end of…

There's nothing more frustrating than having to be side-lined because of a running injury. That being said, sometimes you might not always be helping yourself, and this is the last thing that you need when you have so much on the line. Telling…

On Saturday, November 9th, I completed my second 100 mile ultramarathon. This is the first race that I signed up for almost a year prior to the race. I had ample time to prepare. I started my year off in January with training for the Bayshore…

While running the London Marathon might be on the top of most runners' marathon wishlists, according to recent data collected by The Sole Supplier, London is only number 11 on a list of the best marathons in the world. Looking at course data, The…

Regular exercise throughout adulthood may protect our muscles against age-related loss and damage later, according to an interesting new study of lifelong athletes and their thighs. The study finds that active older men's muscles resemble, at a…

On my Thanksgiving morning run, I alternated between feeling nostalgic that I'm no longer in Piedmont, California, for the annual Turkey Trot 5K, and grateful that I faced no self-imposed pressure to race fast. I flashed back on all the years I…

The holiday season brings with it festive treats, sparkling lights, and The Radio City Rockettes. And, for many of these high-kicking dancers, running throughout the year ensures they can perfectly execute their routines multiple times a day all…

Running is typically a choice for Susanna Sullivan. It's been her sport since she was at George Mason High School and her hobby even longer. But as the October sunset started to overtake her in Maine's Acadia National Park, the darkness forced her…

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The news that – according to a recent survey of 2,000 people in the US – people feel they are too old to start exercising at 41 would raise a few eyebrows in Fauja Singh's house. He took up running at 84, and ran his first marathon…

In 2014, Simon Wheatcroft ran the entire way from Boston to New York, covering 260 miles from Beantown to the Big Apple in nine days. The British runner has also run 83 miles through the Cotswolds, attempted the 155-mile Four Deserts Marathon in…

Months after Alison Mariella Désir founded her NYC-based urban running and community service group Harlem Run in 2013, she reached out to other leaders in the running community for guidance, support, and recognition. But instead of help, the…

Last month, running coach, journalist and podcaster Justin Horneker's tweet “What's your most controversial opinion about running?” has generated some interesting debates about training. Last week we mentioned 24-hour world…

IBS and Exercise: How Should Runners Cope? www.runnerclick.com Running with irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS can be challenging. There are many things that contribute to IBS on a run, but there are also tactics to help make it manageable so the…

The Philadelphia Marathon, a popular Boston qualifier with around 24,000 finishers every year, removed 147 entries from its 2019 results when it was clear that those people cut the course. A notice on the race's website gives them the benefit of…

It's the most simple question that can be asked to assess the usefulness of a training concept: did it work? However, is that always the right question to ask? What if it appears that it did work but for the wrong reasons? What if it appears to not…

What drives a runner to become a marathoner? In our new film series, we follow three people from around the United States as they prepare for the New York City Marathon. Each of them came to running for deeply personal reasons – but the…

You CAN run through the winter! Winter is here! At least in this part of Wisconsin, it seemed to arrive on Halloween this year and hasn't let up since! That means it's time, if not a little late, for your annual reminder: winter running can be safe…

While in a New York prison for almost 20 years, Huwe Burton started running to cope with the tragedy of being wrongfully incarcerated for the death of his mother. Less than a year after being exonerated for a crime he didn't commit, Burton…

I can't pinpoint exactly when I started to think of myself as anti-diet, but I can tell you it didn't happen quickly. I spent years believing that dieting and weighing less would solve most of my problems and lead to otherwise inaccessible health…

There's a reason no one reads university theses – they are often out of touch with reality, argument-driven to a fault, full of confirmation bias and reek of ivory tower penmanship. A PhD thesis by Carys Egan-Wyer, from Lund University in…

Self-described age group: I'm 32 years old Occupation: Registered Dietitian Why you run: I started running as a way to stay in shape, and I keep running because I enjoy working towards a goal. There are always limits to surpass and more PRs to set…

Just like road marathons are the new 10K, 100-milers are the new marathon. But loving the trails doesn't mean you need to run ultra distances. A few months ago, David Roche reminded the trail community that being a trail runner does not necessarily…

Every year around the holidays, that tired joke about having to “run off” Thanksgiving dinner rears its ugly head. It's the kind of aside that's become so normalized, we don't even think about how harmful the inherent food shaming can…

MK Fleming Love the sentiment, LOATHE this headline.