Have you heard of fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers? These are the two types of muscle that are responsible for all your gains in the gym. And depending on how you train — and even your own ...

Muscular endurance tests can help you gauge the effectiveness of your workout and provide clues about your overall physical fitness. When it comes to measuring progress in the weight room, muscular ...

Take this 30-second pushup test to see if your upper-body strength and endurance are years younger than your actual age.

(CNN) -- Editor's note: Dana Santas, known as the "Mobility Maker," is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports, and is the author of the book ...

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 ...

Test procedures for the CCFT, the NFME tests and the NET entailed each test only being performed once. This was done to replicate a clinical setting, where limited consultation time and the patient's ...

Improving performance and reducing the risk of injury during exercise is not just a matter of building your strength or endurance. Efficient movement also plays a role, and that comes only with ...

Mastery of a skill comes only with consistent and deliberate practice over time. But a new study suggests that practice serves another crucial purpose as well – though this variety of practice comes ...

An intra-rater (between-day) and inter-rater (within-day) design was applied. Each participant attended two assessment sessions. At each occasion both examiners assessed the participant. Intra-rater ...