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 ...

It's hard to squeeze workouts in. The good news is you don't have to wake up at the crack of dawn or do some crazy at-home workout to get in shape. In fact, according to new research, as little as ...

Eccentric exercise focuses on movements, or phases of a movement, that lengthen the muscles. Some examples of eccentric exercise include lowering into a squat or lowering into a press-up. In contrast, ...

The word "eccentric", you’ll know, is most commonly used to describe someone or something unconventional – but in the world of fitness, it means something quite different. Thankfully, eccentric ...

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, ...

New research found that a few minutes a day of eccentric exercises—which emphasize muscle lengthening—can improve strength, flexibility, and endurance in sedentary people. Every day, participants did ...

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 ...

As little as five minutes a day of eccentric exercise could offer significant health benefits to those living a stagnant lifestyle, researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) found. The study, led ...

If you tend to breeze through the "easy" part of an exercise—like lowering into a squat or letting your dumbbells drop after a curl—you might be missing a major opportunity to build strength. That ...