Understand the science of lifting versus lowering to optimize your training and break through your next plateau.

We tend to focus on the upwards part of movement, but what happens on the way down can be just as beneficial.

“Eccentric training trains your muscles and tendons to be fatigue resistant, more resilient, and stronger,” Bui says. “If you can prevent that fatigue from happening earlier in a race, the better your ...

Plyometric training taps into your body’s natural stretch-shortening cycle to build explosive power, speed, and agility. From vertical jumps to box jumps, these movements challenge your muscles to ...

New research from Edith Cowan University suggests that eccentric exercise—movements where muscles lengthen, such as lowering a weight—can build strength and muscle size with less effort than ...

A new class of soft, electrically activated devices is capable of mimicking the expansion and contraction of natural muscles. These devices, which can be constructed from a wide range of low-cost ...

4 Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Sports Medicine Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Correspondence to Dr Patrik Danielson, Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Anatomy ...

5 College of Health Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA Context Clinical trials have demonstrated that preventive neuromuscular training (PNMT) can be effective to reduce ACL ...

We get it: Postrun stretches can sometimes feel like a waste of precious time. After all, they don’t leave you sweaty, breathless, or sore—perhaps leading you to think they aren’t a “productive” way ...

Making love regularly is an essential part of a healthy relationship, yet many couples are unaware of how much their bodies change during sexual intercourse. During love making the body goes through ...