Muscle Building Blog

Muscle cramps can make completing a workout painful and sometimes impossible. Find out what causes muscle camps and learn how to stop them in their tracks. What causes muscle cramps during exercise? * Working harder than necessary * Fatigue * Dehydration * Being out of shape *...

Although humans and chimpanzees move quite differently, muscle attachment sites at their thighbones are similar. This result, which has recently been published by anthropologists of Zurich University in the scientific journal Anatomical Record, has major consequences for the interpretation of fossil hominid finds.

(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem describe in C. elegans the process leading to a rare form of Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, a disease caused by a mutation in lamin A in man. Lamin A not only gives shape to the nucleus, but here it is shown that it controls the positioning of genes in ...

Jason Momoa's only the latest star whose physique earns him parts. Taylor Lautner, Chris Hemsworth and others were also cast for their shape more than their acting skills.

It's the start of a new term and once again Dixon is packed day and night. The beginning of winter term is always especially crowded, as many students have set New Year's resolutions to get in shape or work out more. As frustrating as it can be to deal with the crowds in the gym, these intentions are commendable as it is now common knowledge that a very large percentage of our population is ...