When you begin lifting weights, it’s natural to want to see muscle gains right away. But the real magic happens during recovery. After you train, your muscles enter a rebuilding phase — repairing and ...

A recent review by researchers from Ball State looked at how different muscles respond to training in adults over 60. What they found should change how we think about exercise programming, whether you ...

After a bad fall at 67, Karen Cokely came back even stronger.

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Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and ...

Rest assured, the hype is real. Hypertrophy is, by definition, the enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in size of its cells. Not to be confused with hyperplasia, the process of ...

Building muscle after 50 is essential for feeling strong and healthy. While you’re perfecting your strength training routine and making sure to eat enough protein, you might wonder: How long does it ...

The muscles of the mice that received antibiotic treatment, and thus had an unhealthy gut, did not grow as much. If researchers are able to pinpoint which substances that gut bacteria produce can help ...