Once reserved for athletes, eccentric exercise is becoming increasingly popular in everyday training and physical therapy—especially for people with musculoskeletal conditions like Parkinson’s disease ...

Push-ups are great for building strength and muscle, and can be modified for all fitness levels. To start working up to push-ups, practice eccentric and incline exercises, a personal trainer says. As ...

QUESTION: I have been doing the same workout for a year but wouldn’t mind mixing it up a bit. Any thoughts? ANSWER: It’s been said that the best workout for each of us is the one we will do. For some, ...

Just five minutes a day of slow, controlled bodyweight exercises improves strength, flexibility, and mental health. The home-based program is ideal for sedentary people and requires no equipment or ...

Push-ups are a mainstay of upper-body workouts. You'll find them in most workout plans but, despite what some personal trainers suggest, they are actually not the easiest exercise to do. A push-up ...

Eccentric exercise training, which focuses on muscle lengthening under tension, is emerging as a promising intervention to counteract the physiological declines associated with ageing. This modality ...

There are five compound exercises I believe you should be able to perform, whether you’re in your 30s, 40s, or 50s. As a personal trainer, I can tell you that your body doesn’t just suddenly give up ...

Weight training is essential to good physical health and is especially important for aging well. A study by Harvard researchers found that middle-aged men who could do 20 push-ups had better heart ...