This 92-year-old holds four sprinting world records for women over 90 – here’s why she’s leaving scientists stunned and what ...

How many pushups after 50 signals elite strength? See standards for men and women plus tips to improve safely.

Muscle loss creeps in with age, quiet and stubborn. It doesn’t sting until everyday things feel heavier — the suitcase, the ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Muscle fibers, which constitute skeletal muscle, are classified into two main types: slow-twitch (Type I, red muscle) and fast-twitch (Type II, white muscle). Slow-twitch fibers are ...

Johnston defines muscular endurance as a muscle’s ability to repeatedly contract at a relatively high percentage of its maximal force output for an extended period of time. His philosophy on training ...

There is scientific evidence to show the running promotes muscle growth. Research published in Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, for example, found that aerobic exercise can increase skeletal ...

Maria Arellano Simpson has been on and off restrictive diets since she was nine years old. ‘As a young adult in the 2000s, cardio was the focus and I spent hours doing it to try to get smaller,’ the ...

A team of researchers from the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed a biomaterial that could change how we treat muscle ...