STUDIES
Want to stay up to date on the latest press releases and news about studies in the running, cycling and triathlon industries? Scroll below to view all endurance sport studies.
April 5, 2022
How This Simple Breathing Exercise May Improve Your Endurance
When you’re working out, you may be neglecting one group of muscles that can be key to your performance: those that help you breathe. New research presented at the American Physiological Society annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2022 finds the benefits of certain muscles that control our breathing may extend...
March 29, 2022
ASICS Experiment Reveals Just One Week of Physical Inactivity Has a Similar Impact as a Week of Broken Sleep on Our State of Mind
Today, the impact of physical inactivity on our mental state has been revealed for the first time in the Mind Racei – an ASICS experiment in which regular exercisers paused their normal fitness routines for one week. The impact on their state of mind was found to be similar to...
March 24, 2022
Study: stay fit to prevent Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s and other dementias affect more than 740,000 Canadians, and unfortunately, science has not yet found a cure for the debilitating disease. The absence of an effective treatment puts even greater emphasis on the importance of prevention, and recent research shows that runners are already giving themselves a leg-up. Canadian...
March 16, 2022
How Outride’s Riding for Focus Youth are Pedaling for Social, Emotional and Cognitive Health
MORGAN HILL, Calif. [for immediate release] /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Outride, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of youth through cycling, is pleased to announce the release of its long-awaited report, Riding for Fun, Friends, and Fitness: Advancing Youth Health and Well-being through Outride's Riding for Focus Program. Drawing from youth...

March 14, 2022
Registration opens for 2022 Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon
Biloxi, Ms. /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Runners who missed last year’s Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon have another chance to #soakuptherun. Registration for the race in Dec. 2022 officially opens Monday offering the best deals and exclusive gear for a limited time. Runners who register before Mar. 22 will not only receive...
March 9, 2022
Organs have their own pace of aging, a Chinese study finds
People are aging constantly, but individual organs have their own pace. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Cell Reports reported multiple "clocks" within the human body. An international team led by Chinese scientists measured the varying biological ages of his or her organ systems. News
March 5, 2022
Doing 30 to 60 minutes of one exercise weekly could help you live longer, study says
Strengthening exercises most benefit your muscular and skeletal health, but they could have two other big perks: helping you prevent disease and live longer, according to new research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. CNN
February 24, 2022
‘I get high to exercise’: How cannabis became the gateway drug to fitness
In a recent survey of 600 cannabis smokers by science journal Nature, four out of five respondents admitted to lighting up just before exercising. "Bring your own bud" and "cannabliss" exercise classes have started sprouting up in the UK and US, and there's a budding trend in influencers who pair...
February 23, 2022
Exercise Can Build Up Your Brain. Air Pollution May Negate Those Benefits
Work out in polluted air and you may miss out on some of the brain benefits of exercise, according to two, large-scale new studies of exercise, air quality and brain health. The studies, which involved tens of thousands of British men and women, found that, most of the time, people...
February 17, 2022
Your Brain Fatigues First In Running. Cycling? It’s Your Muscles
While the outward manifestation of fatigue—the reduction in force of muscle contraction—is universal, it turns out the reasons that fatigue accrue are different in different sports. Guillaume Millet, professor of exercise physiology at Jean Monnet University (St-Etienne, France), recently published a study on those differing mechanisms of fatigue in running...