If you’ve ever wondered why some people seem to adapt more quickly to resistance training, it’s probably due to the type of skeletal muscle tissue they have. Each of our muscle fibers is either ...

Ever wonder why some people seem to pack on muscle effortlessly while others spend months in the gym with little to show for it? Muscle growth isn't just about lifting weights -- it's a complex ...

There can get a point where you’re climbing mountains, navigating rough terrain, or carving fresh pow and feeling good —but ...

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the words twitch and muscle? Spasms, perhaps. You'd hardly be alone in thinking that. But when it comes to fitness, it's most commonly ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Muscle fibers, which constitute skeletal muscle, are classified into two main types: slow-twitch (Type I, red muscle) and fast-twitch (Type II, white muscle). Slow-twitch fibers are ...

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 ...

Different types of exercise encourage the formation of different types of muscle fibers, or the cells that make up your muscles. Slow twitch muscle fibers support endurance activities like ...

Most humans move a lot less than our ancestors did, a change in use which is likely reflected in the composition of muscles themselves. Understanding our muscle makeup is a key step towards improving ...

Most pastors have hobbies, hobbies that I myself am simply not mentally and emotionally cut out for. Chief among those, obviously, is golf. I play at golf (no, that is not a grammatical error) maybe ...