Increasing your run distance [www.progressionfitness.com.au]

The long run is a key part of your training program, no matter what distance you are training for. 5K runners can benefit as well as marathon runners. The weekly long run is a workout that many look forward to while others dread.

Here are ten tips to make your long runs more enjoyable and more beneficial.

Boot camp hot, Pilates not [www.progressionfitness.com.au]

 

Fit or fad … boot camp displaces Pilates as top exercise trend.

Bootcamp is hot, Pilates is not, according to a new survey forecasting fitness trends for 2011.

In fact so precipitous was the fall of Pilates, once a fitness staple, that Dr Walter Thompson, lead author of an annual poll conducted by the American College of Sports Medicine, is starting to call it a fad.

“Fads are here today, gone tomorrow,” Thompson said. “Pilates has been very strong since 2008. But for 2011 it fell off the list completely.”