Muscles
How to Do Squats Correctly
What is the single best strength-building exercise many of us could be doing right this minute but almost certainly are not? Consult enough exercise scientists and the latest exercise research, and the answer would likely be a resounding: squats. “For lower-body strength and flexibility, there is probably no better exercise,” said Bryan Christensen, a professor […]
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What Is ‘Bigorexia’?
Even if there is a long history of celebrating muscled physiques, no form of media has disrupted how young men view their bodies quite like the insatiable voyeurism and staged exhibitionism that fuels platforms like TikTok and Instagram. “Social media is really where young men experience evaluations of their appearance from others,” said Veya Seekis, […]
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Stronger Muscles in 3 Seconds a Day
The exercising volunteers gathered during the workweek at the lab for strength testing and weight lifting, of a kind. They sat at a machine called an isokinetic dynamometer, which has a long lever arm that can be pushed and pulled, up or down, with varying levels of resistance, allowing researchers to precisely control people’s movements […]
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When Is the Best Time to Exercise?
Morning exercise has very different effects on metabolism than the same workout later in the day, according to an ambitious new animal study of exercise timing. The study, which involved healthy lab mice jogging on tiny treadmills, mapped hundreds of disparities in the numbers and activities of molecules and genes throughout the rodents’ bodies, depending […]
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How Exercise Affects Metabolism and Weight Loss
Perplexed, Dr. Hall recently began to reconsider the “Biggest Loser” studies in light of an emerging concept about how human metabolism fundamentally works. This idea grew out of an influential 2012 study showing that highly active hunter gatherers in Tanzania burn about the same relative number of calories every day as the rest of us, […]
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How to Save Your Knees Without Giving Up Your Workout
In the annals of unsolicited advice, few nuggets have been dispensed as widely and with less supporting evidence than this: “If you keep doing all that running, you’re going to ruin your knees.” The latest salvo in the debate over knees and running — a systematic review of 43 previous MRI studies that finds no […]
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