Traditional bodybuilding advice has been to push workouts to the point of failure, and that soreness is an indicator of effectiveness. But recent studies show there’s another way ...

SWOLE: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle. By Michael Brodeur. Beacon Press. 256 pages. $28.95. Author Michael Brodeur takes the gym too seriously, and not seriously at all at the same time, ...

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What are big muscles for? They were sidelined long ago by the Industrial Revolution; engines drive plows and hammer steel more cheaply and less complainingly. Somehow, though, they retain an ambiguous ...

Getting swole is great. But cognitive function also improves when you work a certain muscle group. “Never skip leg day” ...

You can shed fat while sculpting muscle with the right nutrition and strength training. If you're trying to lose fat while building muscle, body recomposition is the approach you're looking for. You ...

MIKE COLTER HASN'T always had to look swole. The 46-year-old actor describes one of his earlier notable roles, Lemond Bishop in CBS's The Good Wife, as having one real physical requirement: looking ...

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