Whether you’ve been lifting for years or you’re just getting started, if your goal is to build muscle, you need to first understand that gaining size and gaining strength are two distinctly different ...

Fatigue is a double-edged sword in strength training. On one hand, it's an unavoidable part of hard training; on the other, ...

With normal aging, the nervous system lose motor neurons, leading to a loss of motor units, reduced muscle mass, less strength, speed and power. That process speeds up substantially past age 60.

High-altitude training has long been embraced by athletes seeking a competitive edge, primarily because of the body’s ...

Trainer: This Old-School Workout Technique Instantly Makes You Stronger originally appeared on Men's Fitness.

Elevated motor unit amplitudes recorded by an EMG represent reorganization of the motor unit innervation pattern secondary to injury. Loss of an axon supplying a group of muscle fibers results in ...

Greg Nuckols, who holds both degrees in exercise science and three all-time world records in powerlifting, says there is some evidence that EMS can wake up fast-twitch motor units (which refers to ...

Such spinal elements include the spinal motor neuron (lower motor neuron) connection to the muscle as well as the afferent connections of sensory fibers originating from the muscle (motor unit ...