As you start to learn more about fitness and resistance training, there can be a lot of terms and methods that are outright confusing. You may have heard about muscular strength and muscular endurance ...

This simple bodyweight test, recommended by top sports medicine experts, may reveal far more about your heart health than you ...

Get your workout on! These easy exercises help strengthen and tone your muscles. How many times have you paused to thank your muscles for everything they do for you? Probably never, but they deserve ...

Think you always need long, slow strength sessions to build strength and burn fat? Think again. New research suggests that high-intensity circuit training—workouts that pack multiple strength moves ...

Building muscle strength takes time and consistency, but the benefits last a long time. (Getty Images) Whenever muscles are mentioned, most people call to mind images of hulking bodybuilders and ...

The core components of health-related fitness include cardiovascular and muscular endurance, flexibility, and your body’s ratio of fat compared to muscle and bone. It’s well known that being ...

New research has identified the enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase 1 (GLUD1) as a new therapeutic target for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). In preclinical DMD mouse models, investigators demonstrated ...

Elite pushup standards after 45: men 30+ strict, 40+ exceptional; women 20+ strict. Learn what it means and how to improve.

Real strength after 50 isn’t about lifting the heaviest weight in the gym—it’s about moving well, staying independent, and ...

You’ve heard it before: Strength training a few days a week will help build the muscle you need to become a stronger and faster runner. But a new study shows that lifting on the regular has a larger ...

It takes just two weeks of physical inactivity for those who are physically fit to lose a significant amount of their muscle strength, new research indicates. In that relatively short period of time, ...