Fitness pros explain how to read your body’s cues, prevent overtraining, and maintain long-term progress.

Admittedly, percussive massage devices look pretty intimidating, but using one can help increase blood flow to support your muscles’ natural recovery process. To use, simply float the device over the ...

If you feel stuck in an exercise routine that still feels hard, learn the overlooked reasons workouts fail to get easier over ...

Building muscle doesn’t always look the way you'd expect. Even if you've been consistent with your training, sometimes ...

In my last column, we discussed that current scientific evidence doesn’t suggest that stretching prevents injury in the sport or activity immediately following the stretch. However, we also covered ...

Plus, exactly how to train to sculpt your muscles.

Massage has been used to treat sore, injured muscles for more than 3,000 years, and today many athletes swear by massage guns to rehabilitate their bodies. But other than making people feel good, do ...

It might be more than you think.

Building and maintaining muscle mass is important for everyone, regardless of age — and one of the strongest predictors of long-term health.

If there’s one familiar sound whenever a volunteer tries out an interactive device that uses electrical muscle stimulation, it is probably laughter. Even for experienced users of the technology, the ...

Massages feel good, but do they actually speed muscle recovery? Turns out, they do. Scientists applied precise, repeated forces to injured mouse leg muscles and found that they recovered stronger and ...