What Happens if Your Heart Rate is Too High During Exercise?
When you exercise, you try to reach a target heart rate, but what if your heart rate rises beyond your target heart rate and even your maximum heart rate? Find out what you should know.
When you exercise, you try to reach a target heart rate, but what if your heart rate rises beyond your target heart rate and even your maximum heart rate? Find out what you should know.
Training frequency is one variable you can manipulate to jumpstart your strength-training gains. Could more frequent training offer a greater benefit than working out at a low frequency? Here’s what science shows.
Certain orthopedic conditions can make exercise more challenging. One of those is hip arthritis. In this article, you’ll discover how to exercise safely with hip arthritis and still get the most out of your workouts.
Are you not making the muscle and strength gains you expected? This article looks at eight common strength-training mistakes that can cost you muscle growth and strength gains.
Scientists have discovered a gene that plays a role in muscle growth and strength gains. Find out more about this gene and how the genes you inherit affect how strong you are and how easy it is for you to build muscle strength and size.
If you take a course of antibiotics, can it affect your exercise performance? Antibiotics affect your exercise microbiome, so it’s not surprising that antibiotics could have an impact. Here’s what science says.
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is one of the best ways to improve your fitness level fast. Now, a new study shows that changes occurring at the level of the muscle cell explain these benefits. Here’s what’s happening inside muscle cells when you do a HIIT workout.
The deadlift works almost every muscle group in the human body. Which is your favorite? This article looks at five types of deadlifts, how they differ, and the pros and cons of each.
After a strength-training workout, muscles need time to recover. You might wonder whether there are gender differences in muscle recovery – do women or men recover from a strength training workout better? Here’s what science says so far.
What time of day do you work out? A new study shows that whether you work out in the morning or evening could affect the benefits you get from your sweat sessions. Here’s how the benefits of exercise vary with the time of day.
What you drink after a workout matters, especially if you did a high-intensity workout or exercised in a warm environment. Here are five of the best recovery and post-workout beverages to sip and why.
Push-ups are one of the best exercises for working your upper body, but if you want stronger triceps, there’s a push-up variation you should consider. It’s the triangle push-up. Here are the benefits of including this push-up variation in your strength-training routine.