Stop ignoring the critical nutrient that protein-heavy meal plans leave behind—discover how fiber is reclaiming its spot as ...

More mileage during training results in faster finish times, right? Recent research suggests that might be true for some runners—but not for everyone. Before and immediately after each training period ...

Researchers have identified the role of the large Maf transcription factor family in regulating fast twitch muscle fibers. A mouse model lacking Maf expression in the skeletal muscles exhibited a ...

If you're looking to gain muscle mass, a quick web search will tell you to "bulk" on a high-calorie, high-protein diet, progressively challenge yourself with heavier weights and rest in between ...

Plus, exactly how to train to sculpt your muscles.

Skeletal muscle is the type of muscle that controls movement. Problems with these muscles can be minor, life-threatening, or ongoing problems that make it hard to perform basic daily activities.

There are a bunch of different reasons that serious endurance athletes generally don’t have big pipes. The most obvious one is that they spend a lot of time running and pedaling and so on, and very ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have shown that the protein Musashi-2 (Msi2) plays a key role in the regulation of mass and metabolic processes in skeletal muscle. They ...

Muscle fibers resemble entire tissues "Due to the heterogeneity of its nuclei, a single muscle cell can act almost like a tissue, which consists of a variety of very different cell types," explains Dr ...