Sweat Science
Alex HutchinsonThe latest research on endurance, fitness, and health, clearly explained with a skeptical eye.
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What’s “Good” for VO2max?
There’s a footnote to one of my recent Outside columns that I wanted to share.
I wrote about a new study exploring the difference between moderate and intense exercise for preserving VO2max in adults in their 70s. The punchline: all else b...
Introducing Sweat Science 101!
My dad was an ethicist whose work focused on how people with different beliefs find ways of making decisions together. I like to think that pluralistic spirit shows up in the way I write about sports science: the evidence is seldom definiti...
The 2026 Sweat Science Summer Book List
I have a friend who has a cottage that was built by a retired sea captain sometime in the mid-1900s. Her family bought it “as-is” in the 1970s, meaning that all the furniture and décor came with it. It has barely changed since, and one of i...
Please Tell Me What Running Feels Like to You!
I’m looking for your help: I want to know what running feels like to you.
I’m writing a book with my colleague Adam Hammond, with the working title This Is Your Brain on Running. It’s an attempt to understand what running does to our brain...
Three Science Takeaways From a Long, Hilly Race
A few weeks ago, I ran a race that has true “cult classic” status in Canadian running circles: the Cabot Trail Relay. It’s 276 kilometres around the unbelievably scenic perimeter of Cape Breton, on Canada’s east coast, divided into 17 punis...
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Author of The Explorer's Gene and Endure, Outside columnist, Globe & Mail, ex-physicist, not-quite-sub-4 miler.
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