For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

Researchers demonstrated a magnet-based system that can track the location of muscles and could be used to help people control prosthetic limbs and other wearable robotic devices. Using a simple set ...

What if you could easily test the strength of your bones and muscle functionality at home, instead of undergoing expensive tests at the doctor’s office? Researchers from the Mayo Clinic have developed ...

You’ve dialled in your programming, you’re pushing yourself at the end of your sets, and you’re consistent with your training split. But, if you’re not paying attention to the length at which your ...

A new study published in Aging (Aging-US) introduces a simple screening approach to estimate how quickly an individual’s muscles are aging. The method, based on functional and compositional measures, ...

Range of motion (or movement) is a term you may have heard frequently used on the gym floor. It's one of the key variables to optimise your lifts, muscle growth and also (while not quite as exciting), ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Using a simple set of magnets, MIT researchers have come up with a sophisticated way to monitor muscle movements, which they hope will make it easier for people with amputations to ...