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.

Let’s get one thing straight: Muscle is muscle. Despite what many fitness influencers may have you believe, there’s no such thing as "lean muscle" or "bulk muscle." It’s all made from the same stuff.

Hypertrophy, the scientific term for the enlargement of muscle fibers, may not hold the top spot on the list of training priorities for some runners. Many of us (sometimes begrudgingly) cross-train to ...

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 ...

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

In this interview, News-Medical speaks to Dr. Jyoti K. Jaiswal about his latest research into gene therapies for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2B. I am a cell biologist interested in understanding ...

Chest exercises after 50, 5 daily moves from a certified trainer to rebuild muscle with less shoulder stress than bench press ...