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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE – A simple blood test can predict which woman will have less muscle and will be walking more slowly later in life. It is also practical and cheaper than current methods of measuring muscle, ...

Madam Sabarina Jumarudin, a participant of the Integrated Women’s Health Programme at NUH and the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, with IWHP lead Yong Eu Leong. SINGAPORE – A simple blood test can ...

A new study published in Aging (Aging-US) introduces a simple screening approach to estimate how quickly an individual’s muscles are aging. The method, based on functional and compositional measures, ...

Editor’s note: Dana Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports, and is the author of the book “Practical ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive disease of the nervous system. It affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord called motor neurons. Motor neurons control muscle movement and ...