Once reserved for athletes, eccentric exercise is becoming increasingly popular in everyday training and physical therapy—especially for people with musculoskeletal conditions like Parkinson’s disease ...

When lifting heavy weights off the floor, as in the deadlift or back squat, when the core is under constant load and pressure ...

Eccentric exercise is a trainer’s best-kept secret for building muscles faster and preventing injury. Try these five moves to get you started. Once upon a time in a gym not-so-far-away, the weight ...

QUESTION: I have been doing the same workout for a year but wouldn’t mind mixing it up a bit. Any thoughts? ANSWER: It’s been said that the best workout for each of us is the one we will do. For some, ...

Plyometric compound training is making waves in the fitness world, and it’s the potent combo of explosive, plyometric ...

Just five minutes a day of slow, controlled bodyweight exercises improves strength, flexibility, and mental health. The home-based program is ideal for sedentary people and requires no equipment or ...

If you tend to breeze through the "easy" part of an exercise—like lowering into a squat or letting your dumbbells drop after a curl—you might be missing a major opportunity to build strength. That ...

Eccentric exercise training, which focuses on muscle lengthening under tension, is emerging as a promising intervention to counteract the physiological declines associated with ageing. This modality ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Postmenopausal women at risk of diabetes can safely do a form of resistance training that allows the muscles to produce very high forces with relatively little effort, ...

Kristen Fischer has written for numerous health publications, hospitals, and medical companies, and is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. Nick Blackmer is a librarian, ...