A personal trainer recommends that women over 40 try this strength exercise for a strong and mobile lower body.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve been to a boutique fitness class recently, chances are you’ve heard these three little words: “long and lean.” Because that’s the promise of so many female-targeted workout trends these days ...

The fitness and health industries are not only celebrating, but also encouraging, women to add resistance training to their ...

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 ...