ANY GUY WITH lifting experience typically reaches a metaphorical fork in the road: To cut or to bulk? Traditional fitness advice tells us you have to go through separate phases to gain muscle and lose ...

Muscle tends to come back faster the second time because when you’ve built it once, your muscle fibers retain extra myonuclei ...

THERE ARE MANY ways to train, but it’s tough to beat the basics if you’re striving to build muscle and lose body fat at the same time. That lofty goal is called body recomposition, which you can ...

YOU WANT IT all: more muscle and less body fat without spending all day, every day in the gym. Like most guys, you probably have a job, kids, friends, and family that demand your time, and maybe even ...

Text and Demonstration by Anna Maltby Visuals by Theodore Tae A lunge is a lower-body exercise that builds leg strength, especially in the quads, hamstrings and glutes. Practicing lunges can help your ...

The squat is a full-body move that is sometimes called “the king of all exercises.” It is essential for everyday movements, like getting out of a car or up off the floor. Practicing squats regularly ...

Has a therapist ever told you to “listen to your body”? Such physical attunement is a key skill for managing stress and preventing burnout. But most of us were never taught how to do this. Instead, we ...

On a special episode (first released on April 14, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: The mass media has pushed skinny on us for decades. And while doctors encourage healthy eating and lower body mass ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jess Cording is a dietitian and health coach who covers wellness. Even when you know the negative effects of working too hard for ...

A body composition scale analyzes how electrical signals flow through your body, estimating how much of your total weight is fat-free mass compared to body fat. You may not always get every answer you ...

As much as people enjoy the warm summer months, high temperatures can be hard on the human body. “As mammals, we live close to the thermal edge of life and death,” says Craig Heller, a physiologist ...

Focus on Progressive Overload YOUR DIET DRIVES fat loss during a recomp; training is what stimulates hypertrophy (the development of new muscle tissue). There’s no way around it: You must train hard, ...