muscle mass

Functional overreaching is essentially short-term overtraining where you have a goal of digging yourself into a recovery ditch. Two weeks—two ball-busting weeks. Get to work and reap the benefits.

If you want to look like a jacked, powerful, and fit person, prepare to put in the years.

It can be hard to accept, or incorporate, ideas from another area when your current group is grounded upon certain principles.

Each sport has its own requirements for body composition, and that is what makes different sporting disciplines unique.

Smart training is hard training, but hard training is not necessarily smart training.

No matter your physical pursuits, hypertrophy should be a main focus at some point for all athletes.

The more volume you do, the more you grow, but don't outgrow your capacity to recover.

If you plan to see visible muscle growth, the hypertrophic effects of eccentric training mean you can include up to 50% of your resistance training workouts in the form of eccentric exercises.

The vast majority of exercises integrated into our modern resistance training workouts focus on the concentric phase (muscle shortening/contracting) of the movement.

Exercise might not be equally effective in males and females, according to research.

A new study is one of the first to link alcohol consumption with a higher prevalence of sarcopenia in postmenopausal women.

Researchers looked at the impact of exercise and nutrition intervention on muscle mass and muscle function in subjects aged 60 years and older.

Researchers hope to create a pill that mimics the effect of exercise and protects against obesity.

Muscle mass is protection.

You might not want to be a sprinter, but you definitely want a sprinter's legs.

New research shows walking or jogging helps patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer to cope better with the side effects of chemotherapy.

Hours upon hours on the treadmill and eating like a rabbit won't get you where you're trying to go if you don't have any muscle mass.