Fartleks are a well-known and popular running workout—or at least they’re something runners talk about all the time. But how many of us have gone out and said “I’m doing a fartlek today” and actually ...

There seems to be a new walking workout trend doing the rounds on a weekly basis, so much so that it can be a challenge to keep up. With the Japanese interval walking method, the 12-3-30 walking trend ...

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The Swedish word for ‘speed play’, fartlek is one of the most common training sessions that I use with my athletes. The history of fartlek training dates back more than 80 years, when coaches and ...

The Halftime Fartlek is a versatile, effort-based workout you can do throughout your training program. I like to use with athletes who are returning to serious training after some time off and want to ...

Setting out to be on the treadmill for a flat amount of time, say 30 minutes at a steady pace, can be challenging when it feels like you’ve been running forever, but the treadmill’s timer is just ...

FARTLEK may sound like rude word but it is in fact a Swedish workout style. From the Scandinavian country which gave us hygge, then lykke and lagom comes Fartlek – but what exactly is it? Fartlek ...

Fartlek workouts are not only fun to say out loud, but they're fun to run. Fartlek is Swedish for "speed play," and that is exactly what it’s all about. Developed in the 1930s by Swedish Olympian ...