Tiny battery-powered skin patches are being used to keep muscles healthy in people unable to exercise because of broken limbs or other injuries. Musculoskeletal injuries - damage to bones, joints, ...

A rider on a group trail. Use it or lose it. What does that mean? Muscles adapt for the function they are used for. If you don’t need the power of muscles for function, our bodies shift the energy to ...

Do you ever feel like you can’t stop moving after you’ve pushed yourself exercising? Maybe you find yourself walking around in circles when you come off the pitch, or squatting and standing and ...

Visual feedback is just as important as a sense of body position when it comes to the involuntary reflexes that activate muscle movement, says a new study in eLife. The findings provide insights into ...

Isometric, isotonic, and isokinetic exercises refer to the different techniques for activating and strengthening muscles. Isometric exercises, like planks, involve activating muscles with no movement.

Too often, the muscles on our backside are relegated to the domain of Instagram models, “booty bands,” and bikini bootcamps. To be clear: there’s absolutely nothing wrong with showing off your butt, ...

Bat mouths are already pretty much completely awesome, thanks to their amazing echolocation abilities. So this almost seems like overkill: bats are the first known mammals to possess superfast muscles ...

With schools and colleges closed and the majority of pupils stuck at home, Mark Wright is on a six-week mission to encourage 11- to 16-year-olds to get active. Monday is Muscle Movers, where Mark ...

During intense exercise we need to burn more fuel (oxygen and glucose) and this can make the body produce lactate much more quickly than it can clear it. When lactate accumulates in the muscles it may ...