Matt Fitzgerald

Take your health, fitness, and performance to the next level in 2022 with our comprehensive four-week plans.

Eat (and drink) these items to up your carbohydrate intake and reap their endurance performance benefits.

Is there a special quality shared by top athletes who triumph over great challenges? And can anyone acquire it?

This total-body strength workout is ideal for runners of all levels. Start with one round and work your way up to two to three sets.

This powerhouse in a bowl can be served as a smaller side with meat, chicken, or fish.

When your 13.1 race is a month away—but you haven’t exactly been “training”—this plan is perfect.

Remember when we spent the early months of pandemic life baking up a storm? Those times may have past, but banana bread is still delicious. Change up the add-ins with our two recipes to give it a sweeter taste or different texture.

Sharpen your speed and build high-intensity fatigue resistance with this simple cut down track workouts designed for improving 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon times

Carbohydrates are a key part of ensuring you're performing your best.

Making wild salmon at home doesn't need to be complicated. This recipe uses fewer than five ingredients to bring healthy protein to the table.

If you’ve never run before, 26.2 miles can feel like an impossible distance—but it’s more than doable with our zero to 5K to 10K to half to full marathon training plan.

These pancakes are delicious on their own, but you can top them with syrup or additional sliced banana if you like.

Advanced training methods proven effective by scientists, coaches, and athletes.

New to strength training? Harness the power of your own bodyweight to build practical strength that will help you become a better runner.

Psychological skills training can significantly reduce stress and negative thoughts before and during a marathon — that’s important for your time, and for having a good time.

New science shows a disconnect between injury and pain, and suggests we may be better able to self-manage training pains than we think.

Training in the African running powerhouse of Ethiopia may look completely different, but their practices reflect universal principles you can use.

Jenny Simpson's final race as a college runner was a fascinating example of how the mind can limit the body.

The psychological characteristics that lead to over-reliance on data, and 3 ways to teach yourself how to trust your own perceptions and judgments more than you trust your watch.

Why marathon pacing is so hard, and how can you improve your ability to pace optimally and not to hit the wall hard during the 26.2-mile challenge.