Have you heard of fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers? These are the two types of muscle that are responsible for all your gains in the gym. And depending on how you train — and even your own ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

What if you could easily test the strength of your bones and muscle functionality at home, instead of undergoing expensive tests at the doctor’s office? Researchers from the Mayo Clinic have developed ...

Editor’s note: Dana Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports, and is the author of the book “Practical ...

Muscular endurance tests can help you gauge the effectiveness of your workout and provide clues about your overall physical fitness. When it comes to measuring progress in the weight room, muscular ...

Chronic muscle loss doesn't simply make a person physically weaker. Among other things, it increases the risk of serious falls … and even death. A new urine test, however, could allow it to be ...

Throughout my years of coaching and training on my own, the subject of pushing to failure (or beyond) with heavier weights or higher reps has been either the goal or something to avoid. A new ...

ASMAs were first discovered in 1965 in people with chronic active hepatitis. Usually, your immune system will attack foreign bodies like a parasite or a virus with the antibodies made for defending ...

Mastery of a skill comes only with consistent and deliberate practice over time. But a new study suggests that practice serves another crucial purpose as well – though this variety of practice comes ...

The clinical distinction between myopathic and neurogenic disorders of the motor unit is often difficult, since both lesions appear as flaccid, areflexic paralyses, often with variable muscular ...