To grow your muscles, you need to eat more. But new research shows a modest calorie surplus alongside training can help build ...

Body composition is a way to measure and monitor your fat mass and your fat-free mass. Fat-free mass includes any tissue that isn’t fat—muscle, bone, water, blood, cells, organs, and so forth. While ...

The scale has never been a friend to Mana Mostatabi. Even back in high school, when she ran a quick 100m on the varsity track team, her BMI – a ratio of weight to height – put her in the overweight ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether peripheral muscle strength is significantly different between lean and obese women controlled for age and physical activity, using an allometric approach. DESIGN: ...

Dr. Neel Raval is a board-certified sports medicine physician with Providence Health Services in Los Angeles. Dr. Raval's expertise lies in the conservative, non-surgical management of musculoskeletal ...

Strength training for women could make all the difference to your body and mind, whether it’s using body weight or dumbbells ...

Rachael Link is a registered dietitian and health writer based in San Francisco. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Central Missouri and holds a master’s degree from New York ...

Women over 50 have a unique set of health needs. You lose quite a bit of lean muscle after age 50. This is because of a number of factors, but menopause is one of the main culprits. Menopause can mean ...

Picture this: You're hitting up the weight room on the reg for strength sessions, but you're still waiting for the results. It can be so frustrating, but it's not futile. In a situation like this, ...

A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat, but muscle is denser and takes up less space. You can gain muscle and stay the same weight if you're losing fat at the same time. Muscle helps ...