Researchers mapped out many of the cells, genes, and cellular pathways that are modified by exercise or a high-fat diet. They hope their findings will help guide the design of drugs that might mimic ...

Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. MIT engineers have now found that exercise can also have benefits at the level of individual ...

New research offers potential good news for those who've lapsed at the gym. The study found that mice that voluntarily ran on an exercise wheel for four weeks, stopped for four weeks and ran again for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wave of research over the past few years has made it clear that a strength training habit is really important for your health.

Maintaining strength after 50 is all about your ability to generate power, maintain balance, and move with control. Traditional seated or isolated workouts can be effective, but standing exercises ...

Try arm exercises to build muscle after 50, a daily plan designed by Jarrod Nobbe, MA, CSCS, using bands and bodyweight.

Stand with feet together. Shift weight to right leg. Hold a weight in each hand down by sides. Keeping back flat, core engaged, and shoulders down and back, hinge at hips by sending glutes straight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those stiff, painful spots can take up to two weeks to go away on their own. Sophie Walster/iStock via Getty Images Plus Imagine ...

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Dame Helen Mirren reveals the 12-minute workout developed by the Canadian Air Force that she's done daily for the past 60 ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Exercise is well-known to help people lose weight and avoid gaining it. However, identifying the cellular mechanisms that underlie this process has proven difficult because so many ...