If youre a serious runner, tennis player, backpacker, skier or even ballet dancer, youve probably heard from well-meaning strangers that youre going to ruin your knee or hip joint because of all the �...
Female hormone levels change enormously during the monthly cycle. But those changes have almost no effect on how well womens muscles respond to weight training, a new study finds.
A few years back, spectators at an intramural indoor soccer game at the University of California at Davis might have seen Keith Baar, a professor of physiology and membrane biology at the university,�...
Regular exercise during midlife makes brains functionally younger. Thats the bracing conclusion of a new study of 130 inactive men and women, most in their 40s. Some began a simple, aerobic exercis�...
Whats the ideal amount of weight training if youd like to live long and well? In a new study published this month in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, scientists set out to find the sweet spot�...
Are GLP-1 weight-loss drugs hard on your muscles? That question has sparked controversy and concern among some scientists, doctors and the general public. Several large studies in recent years had s�...
Is it better to exercise in the morning or afternoon? Thats a bit of a trick question, because exercise at any time of day is better than no exercise.
As a model of successful aging, you cant beat 82-year-oldJuan López García. Really, you cant beat him.
If you need another reason to visit the gym this winter, a new study of almost 1,200 healthy, middle-aged men and women found that those with more muscle mass tended to have younger brains than those�...
Seventeen years ago, Eric Topol, a cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, set out to discover why some people age so well,�...