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 ...

Muscular endurance tests can help you gauge the effectiveness of your workout and provide clues about your overall physical fitness. When it comes to measuring progress in the weight room, muscular ...

What good is muscle if it's not usable? All those lunges and leg presses, with isolated quad and hamstring conditioning, need to be good for something. Right? Wouldn't it be nice if there were some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your muscles move when nerve signals from the brain tell them to get to work. Electromyography (EMG), a diagnostic test, measures how well your muscles respond to those signals. Movement is a complex ...

Improving performance and reducing the risk of injury during exercise is not just a matter of building your strength or endurance. Efficient movement also plays a role, and that comes only with ...

An intra-rater (between-day) and inter-rater (within-day) design was applied. Each participant attended two assessment sessions. At each occasion both examiners assessed the participant. Intra-rater ...

Mastery of a skill comes only with consistent and deliberate practice over time. But a new study suggests that practice serves another crucial purpose as well – though this variety of practice comes ...