It’s not surprising that we lose muscle strength and size with age – but did you know the muscle fiber composition of your muscle fibers change to? Find out how these changes occur and why you need more power training.
High-rep resistance training -isn’t that for beginners or for building muscle endurance? Yes and no. High-rep training does increase muscle endurance but it has other fitness benefits as well. Find out what they are.
You have two main types of muscle fibers – fast twitch muscle fibers and slow-twitch. Most people, as they age, do more training that activates slow-twitch rather than fast twitch muscle fibers. Yet, that’s not the best approach. Here’s why.
There are lots of variables you can change with regard to your resistance workouts. One of them is the speed with which you do a rep. You can slow down the tempo or lift a lighter weight explosively. Find out how explosive training can challenge your muscles in a different way.
If you want to get the most out of weight training, it’s important to understand the size principle and how muscles are recruited when you lift. Read on and discover how this principle can help you fine-tune your training.
Exercise recommendations are usually based around aerobic exercise training – but there’s another form of exercise called anaerobic exercise. This article looks with more detail at what anaerobic training is and how it differs from aerobic exercise.
Get the low-down on fast and slow-twitch muscle fibers. The difference between the two, how they impact your training, and why it’s important to train fast-twitch fibers with intensity as you age.
Most people do high-volume ab work by doing high rep crunches, leg lifts, and other mat exercises – but is this the best approach – or could your ab workouts benefits from more resistance? Find out why a combination of the two may be the ideal approach.
If your muscles are sore the day after a workout, you may feel a sense of victory, thinking that you worked your muscles hard enough to maximize growth. But is muscle soreness really correlated with growth, and do you need to experience delayed-onset muscle soreness for maximal muscle hypertrophy? Find out what research shows.
You have two main types of muscle fibers – those adapted to strength and power and those best suited for endurance activities. You’re born with a certain ratio of these fibers, and the ratio you have may be a factor in how strong you are or how much endurance you have – but are these fibers “fixed” or can you change the ratio through training? Find out what research shows.
Muscles grow in response to overload but changes don’t happen overnight. Each time you lift weights or do any form of resistance training, there’s a lot going on at the cellular level. Find out what goes on inside your muscles after a training session and factors that influence how much muscle growth you can achieve.
How effective is exercise at slowing down aging? According to a recent study, many of the problems people experience as they age are related to lack of physical activity and aren’t inevitable. Find out what researchers discovered about aging after studying elite senior athletes.
