Strength training exercises like squats, heel raises, and bicep curls can help older adults maintain muscle. Keeping strong as you age means you can more easily continue doing daily activities on your ...

Hip mobility is essential for supporting daily movement, reducing pain and injury risk, and maintaining optimal strength and flexibility.

Once again, 30-day fitness challenges are all the rage on social media. Whether it's a family workout challenge, a flat-abs-in-30-days challenge, or a popular 10-minutes-of-yoga-a-day-for-30-days ...

Eccentric exercise focuses on movements, or phases of a movement, that lengthen the muscles. Some examples of eccentric exercise include lowering into a squat or lowering into a press-up. In contrast, ...

How does walking build muscle? While walking builds some muscle, it isn't the big, bulky muscle mass that comes from spending a lot of time in the gym. Rather, walking creates a leaner muscle tone ...

Jakob Roze, CSCS, is a health writer and high-end personal trainer. He is the founder and CEO of RozeFit, a high-end concierge personal training practice and online blog. The muscles in your lower ...

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 ...

Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. MIT engineers have now found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual ...

Share on Pinterest Exercise gives the brain a boost, and may help protect against cognitive decline, but why? Image credit: NICK VEASEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Exercise can stimulate brain ...