Have you heard of fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers? These are the two types of muscle that are responsible for all your gains in the gym. And depending on how you train — and even your own ...

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 ...

The wall-sit test is a simple yet powerful way to gauge lower-body endurance and reveal how well your heart copes with sustained effort.

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 ...

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 ...