Whether you’re looking to maximize muscle gains or improve your body composition and health, resistance exercise is essential to meeting your goals. While compound exercises work multiple muscle ...

Physical therapists are doctorate level trained health care providers who are experts in exercise, function movement, and performance. In practice, physical therapists use a three main muscle ...

Time under contraction is not directly measured in a typical weight training program. Most people really don't even think about the number of seconds a given muscle is forced to work. Indirectly, ...

Correspondence to: Dr Kang Department of Health and Exercise Science, The College of New Jersey, 234 Packer Hall, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08628, USA; kangtcnj.edu Objective: To examine the ...

This is a common strength training technique that involves manipulating the muscle lengthening portion of an exercise, usually by slowing down the movement. Share on Pinterest Getty Images/Eugenio ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with a fixed flexion contracture should be carefully evaluated and educated on stretching exercises and ...

The word "eccentric", you’ll know, is most commonly used to describe someone or something unconventional – but in the world of fitness, it means something quite different. Thankfully, eccentric ...