First, check in with your weekly routines. Are you hitting the six major muscle groups—chest, shoulders, back, arms, abs, and legs? Or are you maybe skimping on those not-so-favorite moves? Even if ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the end of the day, all runners want to get better at their sport and prevent injury. Symmetry plays a crucial role in ...

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 ...

A muscle strain is when you damage a muscle or the tendons attached to it. (Photo credit: PhotoAlto Agency RF Collections/Getty Images) A muscle strain is an injury that happens when you overstretch ...

An intra-rater (between-day) and inter-rater (within-day) design was applied. Each participant attended two assessment sessions. At each occasion both examiners assessed the participant. Intra-rater ...