But building muscle isn’t necessarily the goal. However, understanding hypertrophy-focused workouts can actually balance out a runner’s exercise routine.

Below, we dig into what exactly strength and hypertrophy mean, the benefits and which is better for building muscle, so that you can decide how to train toward your goals.

The scientific term for ' building muscle ', hypertrophy simply describes the process of tissue stimulation and repair. It's the physiology of gains. On paper, the principle is straightforward.

Today, muscle atrophy is often unavoidable when you can't move due to severe injury, old age or diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple sclerosis (MS). However, Harvard ...

A new study examines how we can train our muscles in the stretched position – for partial reps – to reap the rewards and boost muscle growth by 43.3% ...

A Stretchable, Conductive Thread-Based Sensor Towards Wearable Monitoring of Muscle Atrophy. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2023; 1 DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2023.3248959 ...