anaerobic exercise
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You Should Divide Your Apple Watch Workouts Into Segments
There’s a hidden Apple Watch feature that could change the way you log your exercise. It’s called “Segments,” and it allows you to neatly categorise different stages of your workouts. If you’re doing multiple types of routines, you’d normally log each of them as a new workout on the Apple Watch, but Segments allows you…
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How to Strength Train Faster, According to Science
If you struggle to find enough time to exercise, you’re not alone. Even though an effective workout can be long, short, or anywhere in between, we often let the time commitment exercise requires become a barrier, and figure it’s not worth even starting. Fortunately, a new review paper by sports scientists has gathered a set…
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How Long Is the Ideal Workout?
How do you know if you’re doing too much in the gym, or not enough? We’ve talked about how to manage the intensity of your exercise, but what about the actual time you clock during a workout? The optimal length of an exercise session depends on your goals, and on what, exactly, you’re doing.
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Most ‘HIIT’ Workouts Aren’t Really HIIT
High intensity interval training made headlines in the 2010s with one specific claim: that short bursts of hard work can give the same aerobic benefits as longer sessions of jogging or cycling. But the HIIT videos you can stream today have very little to do with the original model, and many of them aren’t worth…