For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

What good is muscle if it's not usable? All those lunges and leg presses, with isolated quad and hamstring conditioning, need to be good for something. Right? Wouldn't it be nice if there were some ...

What if you could easily test the strength of your bones and muscle functionality at home, instead of undergoing expensive tests at the doctor’s office? Researchers from the Mayo Clinic have developed ...

After 50, strength doesn’t come from luck. A simple timed pushup test can reveal more about your real fitness level than most ...

You can zap your muscles—literally send an electric current down to nerve fibers, fire your motor neurons, and stimulate a strong muscle contraction. It’s called NMES, neuro-muscular electrical nerve ...

In a recent episode of The Huberman Lab Podcast, Dr. Andrew Huberman, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine, speaks at length about the science of muscle growth ...