Mercey Livingston is a health and wellness writer and certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. She's written about fitness and wellness for Well+Good, Women's Health, Business Insider, and ...

In the world of exercise, variety abounds. You can lift light weights, or heavy weights, or no weights at all. You can run fast, or run slow, or strap on a pair of roller skates. If you don’t exercise ...

Resistance training has long been the go-to method for men looking to build up muscle mass or tone their physique, but the debate has raged on about how best to do it. Some extol the values of ...

Bro wisdom says that if you want to get big, you have to lift heavy. But emerging science begs to differ. In a new study from McMaster University, researchers put experienced lifters through a ...

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This is a tale of three studies — two scientific, one decidedly less so (but still fun). The first, a study published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, found that participants with low ...

If lifting really heavy weights has always been the one gym activity that seemed too scary, intimidating, or intense for you, you’re not alone. I used to be a hardcore cardio person who was obsessed ...