Muscle Building Blog

The next time you do a resistance workout, stop and clench the muscle before you finish the lift. Do it for every lift. For example, with a biceps curl, clench the biceps when your arm is curled up near the shoulder. With a bench press, clench your pecs when the bar is at the top position. Clench your thighs when you hit bottom in a squat. Clenching will work wonders for your strength.

Muscle pulls and tendon tears are a common occurrence in all sports. As you play, the muscles are rapidly contracting against resistance. The harder you play, the greater the force causing the muscle fibers to tear. In some cases, a complete rupture of the muscle-tendon apparatus is possible.

If you do resistance trainingweight liftingyoull build muscle that will eat up body fat 24/7, or so the story goes. Now, the aerobic and endurance world is saying...

Auckland took the direct approach to break down Northland's resistance and win their national provincial championship rugby match 26-13 in Auckland today.

Q: I am an 80-year-old female and have never heard of a loss of muscle tone. Can you fill me in? A: Muscle tone is what allows us to keep and maintain our bodies in certain positions. When you choose to make a particular movement, the brain sends a message to the specific muscle group involved to modify the resistance by, for example, shortening biceps muscles on the front of an arm while ...