The Locker Room
Training, nutrition and recovery, explained simply. Short reads you can use in your next session.
TrainingLand training for young swimmers: what one review of 37 studies found
A new review compares core, plyometric and resistance training for developing competitive swimmers. All three showed positive average effects, but the strength of evidence varied.
TrainingDoes adding nutrition to exercise help frail older adults? One review says the evidence is unclear
A new review of trials in older adults finds structured exercise consistently helps frailty, but whether nutrition adds anything on top is still an open question.
TrainingSprints plus heavy squats may beat sprinting alone, one study suggests
A new study compared sprinting alone with sprinting plus three styles of strength training. Heavier squats stood out, but this is a single exploratory study.
TrainingMix it up: why exercise variety may help you live longer
In two long-running studies of more than 111,000 adults, people who did the widest mix of activities had a 19% lower risk of early death, even at the same total amount of exercise.
TrainingWeekend warriors: do one or two active days still count?
Device data from almost 96,000 adults suggests that fitting your weekly activity into one or two days may protect your health about as well as spreading it out.