Protein is the main component of all your body’s tissues, including your muscle tissue. Lifting weights causes damage to your ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You've probably heard big guys at the gym tossing around the word "hypertrophy" when they talk about ...

Muscle hypertrophy involves repairing muscle fibres for growth after training. Beginners can bulk safely by focusing on ...

I’ve always been bookish. I spend most of my time in the lab rather than running, jumping or climbing. But I still have super strong muscles. They’re way bigger than when I was a young. I asked my ...

When you train your muscles (either by lifting weights, running, or doing resistance work), you create tiny microtears in your muscle fibers. While this might sound detrimental, it’s actually a good ...

Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and ...

Why some of us have sculpted, toned and visible muscles and some of us carry a little more flab depends on a lot of factors. Part of it is how and how much you work out, explains Todd Schroeder, ...

Here’s something we don’t talk about enough: aging doesn’t shrink all your muscles evenly. Just like getting stronger isn’t a one-size-fits-all deal, neither is getting older. A recent review by ...

MIT scientists find that motor neuron growth increased significantly over 5 days in response to biochemical (left) and mechanical (right) signals related to exercise. The green ball represents cluster ...