If you didn’t already know you have different types of muscle fibers in your body, now you do. And depending on how you exercise or what sports you enjoy, you’re building and recruiting some ...

On the other hand, slow-twitch muscle fibers are smaller and intended to help you sustain long periods of cardio such as long distance running, swimming, cycling and any type of endurance training.

“In practical terms, eccentric movements happen during the 'lowering' phase of an exercise. They are important for muscle strengthening, as they can create more muscle damage in a controlled way, ...

Muscle fibers in children with SMA type 1 show substantial differences in components of the myosin protein called heavy ...

A fitness expert breaks down how rest-pause training works and why it's a beneficial method for building more muscle.

Eggs pop out of ovaries. But what propels them has been unknown. Now, researchers from the University of Connecticut explain in an article published in the September 18 issue of the Proceedings of the ...