Hill tension intervals are a useful training method I implement with endurance athletes to help recruit more fast and forceful muscle fibers. Essentially, this improves neuromuscular capabilities, ...

Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.

Summer's just around the corner and it's starting to get warm. That means a lot of people will be flocking to the gym or spend our time exercising outdoors. We want the strength and stamina to work ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that a protein excreted by type I (slow) muscle fibers, key to muscle endurance, can cause surrounding myoblasts, ...

Researchers have identified the role of the large Maf transcription factor family in regulating fast twitch muscle fibers. A mouse model lacking Maf expression in the skeletal muscles exhibited a ...

There are a bunch of different reasons that serious endurance athletes generally don’t have big pipes. The most obvious one is that they spend a lot of time running and pedaling and so on, and very ...

Building muscle seems to be on everyone’s mind lately, as it should be. Packing on lean mass has benefits for your metabolism, blood sugar, daily functioning, and longevity, just to name some of the ...