Changing your rep range and your workout intensity can help you build more muscle, says an exercise scientist with decades of ...

You don't need to struggle with intimidating weights to transform your physique; new research proves that lighter loads can deliver elite results.

Building muscle isn’t as simple as just lifting heavy things and hoping for the best. Gaining muscle is not so much about what you do, but rather how you do it. The same exercise could be used to ...

When it comes to building muscle—or any fitness routine, for that matter—most people assume that more is more. More sets, more reps, more time in the gym must mean more gains. Right? From there, ...

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If you're curious about starting a resistance training routine and not sure where to begin, start with these ...

Yes, you can build muscle while burning fat – science and real-world evidence both say so, but it’s less than optimal.

PEOPLE THINK BUILDING muscle requires only that they show up to the gym consistently and put in any type of strength training work (and guzzle a protein shake here and there) to make their desired ...

Challenging the belief that animal protein is the superior type for building muscle, scientists have shown that there is actually no difference in eating meat and dairy or plant sources following a ...

A study has tracked the acute muscle-building response in adults engaged in weight-training exercise who were fed either high-fat or lean ground pork burgers with the same amount of protein in each.

Scientists discovered that lean pork builds muscle more effectively post-workout than high-fat pork, even with identical protein levels. Using advanced tracking techniques, they found that fat content ...

Graduate student Žan Zupančič, left, health and kinesiology professor Nicholas Burd and their colleagues found that processing high-protein whole foods may alter the foods’ muscle-building potential ...