Hypertrophy is the increase in size and volume of muscle cells through a specific type of resistance training. Trainers ...

Understanding how muscles grow is the key difference between training hard and training effectively. Muscle hypertrophy is ...

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that a protein excreted by type I (slow) muscle fibers, key to muscle endurance, can cause surrounding myoblasts, ...

High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) has become one of the most effective fitness strategies in the United States for ...

The misconception that muscle can be lean or bulky lies in its appearance. “When people (say ‘lean’), they’re usually ...

There are a bunch of different reasons that serious endurance athletes generally don’t have big pipes. The most obvious one is that they spend a lot of time running and pedaling and so on, and very ...

Protein and fiber are key nutrients for energy, mood, weight maintenance, general health, and more. But many women don't eat ...

Most humans move a lot less than our ancestors did, a change in use which is likely reflected in the composition of muscles themselves. Understanding our muscle makeup is a key step towards improving ...

– First cross-sectional, retrospective study to describe selective elevation of fast but not slow skeletal muscle fiber injury biomarkers in BMD and DMD patient samples, published in Muscle & Nerve – ...