You need more than strength to age well — you also need power. Here’s how to measure how much you have. By Amanda Loudin For seven years, the author has devoted three to four weekly sessions to ...

A clinical trial by researchers at Deakin University's Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN) in Melbourne, ...

Those in the peanut butter group performed better on this test. However, similar improvements were not seen in tests of gait speed, stepping tests and tests where people were asked to stand up from a ...

Sarcopenia – the gradual decline in skeletal muscle mass, strength, power, and capacity that occurs with age – is familiar to nearly all. What individuals do not know is that sarcopenia may start as ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A simple handgrip test may reveal more than muscle power in very old adults, offering insight into how ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

When I was trained as an American physician, I was never exposed to the concept of muscle strength testing that is utilized as part of the pseudo-scientific field of applied kinesiology (AK). To be ...