If you want to celebrate many more birthdays, new research suggests you should speed up your weight-lifting routine. Boosting muscle power, which is different than muscle strength, translated into ...

Muscles are crucial for body movement, posture, balance, and maintaining body temperature. Muscular power, the blend of strength and speed, plays a vital role in health, injury prevention, and ...

Strength is an integral part of health. It’s required for many tasks throughout the day, such as getting out of bed, carrying groceries, or pushing a broken-down car off the road. It’s defined as the ...

It’s not all about making your workouts look fancy or slick for Instagram, particularly if you’re a beginner; research shows that there’s a type of exercise that trumps most, and it’s really simple: ...

When people think of "muscle building," their first thought is protein. And while protein is the raw material for muscle tissue, it is not the only thing. If you're ignoring carbs, you are probably ...

Scientists say power—your ability to move quickly—is one of the first fitness skills to fade with age. And it’s not as hard as you think to build it back. A leg press machine at a gym in New York.

Humans may have big, bulbous brains, but when it comes to pure muscle power, we’re often considered the weakest of the great apes. Even chimpanzees, who are significantly smaller than us, exhibit ...