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.
May 2, 2022
Running USA Launches 2022 Global Runner Survey
(May 2, 2022) /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ - Running USA, the non-profit trade organization for the sport of running, has relaunched its popular runner sentiment survey for 2022. Running events and businesses serving the endurance space are encouraged to share the survey for the widest possible response. The 2022 survey edition will...
April 28, 2022
Science in Sport set to disrupt the world of endurance fuelling with groundbreaking new scientific study
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Science in Sport’s Beta Fuel range is leading a revolution in endurance fuelling, having famously powered Chris Froome’s sensational 80km solo ride on Stage 19 of the 2018 Giro D’Italia - widely believed to be the elite athlete’s greatest ever feat on a bike. And now, Science...
April 23, 2022
Why Cyclists Can Handle Heat Better Than Runners
A team of Spanish researchers coordinated by David Barranco-Gil of the Universidad Europea de Madrid pooled eight years of data from 74 world-class cyclists (48 men and 26 women) and asked a simple question: how does air temperature affect performance? The answers offer some useful insights about the differences between...
April 22, 2022
Racing to Zero
/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – The Council for Responsible Sport, a nonprofit organization that envisions a world where responsibly produced sports events are the norm, predicts that mass participation races will soon lead the way in sports event sustainability, anticipating that 80% of the thousands of races held annually across the globe...
April 21, 2022
5 Science-Backed Mental Tricks For Getting Through The Toughest Races
As much as we can prepare physically for races, if we don’t bring our mental A-game, things can go south quickly. Luckily, there are some tried-and-true techniques we can incorporate into our daily training to build mental strength. In his latest book, Chatter, award-winning author, psychologist and neuroscientist Dr. Ethan Kross...
April 19, 2022
What Americans Keep Getting Wrong About Exercise
In 2009, New York Times writer Gretchen Reynolds discovered something big: Readers loved to click on stories about tiny increments of exercise. That June, Reynolds wrote her first story about single-digit high-intensity interval training, or HIIT. The piece, titled “Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week?,” described a study...
April 18, 2022
There’s New Data on How Your Arm Swing Affects Running
You can’t run fast without using your arms—or can you? Scientists have had a hard time agreeing on exactly why we swing our arms, and whether there are specific ways we can use our arms to speed ourselves up. The latest addition to a century’s worth of often conflicting research...
April 14, 2022
It doesn’t take a lot of exercise to fight depression, study says
The meta-analysis, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, looked at 15 studies involving over 190,000 people to determine how much exercise was needed to reduce depression. Adults who did activities equivalent to 1.25 hours of brisk walking per week had an 18% lower risk of depression compared with those who...
April 6, 2022
New study says high cushioned shoes improve exercise performance
Results indicate that a high cushioned shoe may not only improve your recovery but also benefit your performance in the absence of muscle damage. Canadian Running Magazine
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...
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