As you start to learn more about fitness and resistance training, there can be a lot of terms and methods that are outright confusing. You may have heard about muscular strength and muscular endurance ...

Strength training is an important part of any well-rounded fitness regimen for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the more muscle mass you have, the more calories you burn at rest.

Here are the three best exercises for building muscle, according to research (and experts): Squats “mimic many of our ...

Do you want to build your endurance so you can work all day, feel good and not be exhausted at the end of the day? Exercising with moderate weights will help create a strong lean fit body. It also ...

Endurance means a lot of different things to different people. To runners, it means being able to run for a long time, covering many miles. To weightlifters, it might mean being able to lift heavy ...

Everything you do during fire suppression requires muscle activity. Whether you are pushing, pulling, lifting, bending, holding, carrying or even just standing, your muscles are active. It is because ...

THERE ARE TWO fitness goals that are shared by most gym regulars: building muscle, and gaining muscular strength. Though the two often come in tandem, there’s a difference between gaining muscular ...

Muscular endurance refers to the capacity of a muscle or muscle group to perform repeated contractions over a sustained period without losing strength or form. In bodybuilding, this quality is ...

How are those muscles doing today? We all know that as the years go by, our bodies go through changes. Some are super obvious ...

The neurotransmitter brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) acts in the muscle, so that during strength training endurance muscle fiber number is decreased. Researchers have more closely ...

There is an ongoing debate about the merits of cardio over lifting that sometimes feels more like justifying one’s behavior ...

Objectives: To investigate the influence of regular Tai Chi (TC) practice and jogging on muscle strength and endurance in the lower extremities of older people. Methods: Twenty one long term older TC ...