strength and muscle size
We think of cardiovascular risk markers, like blood pressure, lipids, and blood sugar, as the main markers of how healthy we are and how likely we are to survive in the upcoming decades. Now, a new study shows that another marker is just as important, if not more, so. That marker is physical fitness!
Sometimes you need to work your muscles a bit differently to get them to continue growing. Here’s an advanced strength-training strategy called rest-pause you may not have tried that can help you push through a plateau.
Unfortunately, your muscles adapt to training over a period of time. That’s when you have to introduce new challenges to make them work harder and push them a little beyond failure. Here are five advanced strength-training techniques that allow you to do that.
It’s no surprise that you need protein to build muscle and you need it throughout the day – but what about at bedtime? Can consuming protein before going to sleep help you build more muscle by increasing muscle protein synthesis?
You can take a variety of approaches to improving your aerobic fitness and building strength and muscle size. You can also approach it in an integrated manner. In this article, you’ll learn about an approach called integrated concurrent training and discover what its pros and cons are.
Aging muscles? Yes, they age along with the rest of you – but how? This article looks at the three main things that happen to your muscles as you enter the second half of life – and what you can do to prevent these changes.
Once you’ve worked hard and developed a certain amount of strength and muscle mass, you don’t want to lose it. How hard do you have to train if you only want to maintain muscle strength? Find out what research shows.
