As limitless as we like to believe human resilience to be, biology really does impose a hard stop on how hard you can go. Which bigs the question: Where does the limit lie? In 2017, a brave group of ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. Within a single half-hour period a ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs have revealed a fundamental limit to human endurance, a metabolic ceiling that caps sustained calorie burning during prolonged physical activity. This limit, which is ...

No matter how hard an athlete trains or whatever the activity is, there's a maximum possible level of exertion that a human being can sustain. Humans can only burn calories at a rate 2.5 times of ...

What is the limit of human endurance? For years, scientists have been attempting to understand how far we can push the human body. Herman Pontzer of Duke University is a professor of evolutionary ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. On a frigid Saturday night in the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Sure, the human body can do amazing things: run hundreds of miles ...

They run hundreds of miles over days, push through pain and defy fatigue; however, even elite ultra-endurance athletes can’t escape the body’s natural limits. Researchers from the Massachusetts ...

Just in time for the games in South Korea, a U.S. Olympic cross counter skier and a sports science writer on what it takes to push the boundaries... How To Push The Limits Of Human Endurance With ...