Building muscle isn't just for powerlifters and body builders. These experts explain how some resistance training, even just at home, can impact how we experience ageing.
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Building muscle isn't just for powerlifters and body builders. These experts explain how some resistance training, even just at home, can impact how we experience ageing.
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To live a long and healthy life, you need plenty of muscle. But we all start losing it in our 50s. Can a 60-year-old man build himself up – and maybe even get a little ripped?
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Existing weight-loss drugs can cause muscle loss, but the next generation could allow patients to gain muscle instead.
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A stiff and sore body can be an unpleasant side effect of exercising. Here are some tips to prevent pain and avoid injury.
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New research shows even one muscle contraction a day, for five days a week, is effective at improving muscle strength if you keep it up for a month.
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What Does It Mean if Your Quadriceps Are Twitching?. You may not remember exactly when your quads started twitching, but that tic in your quadriceps is now top of your mind. Muscle twitches are involuntary and can drive you crazy if they don't go away within an hour or two. Typically twitching muscles are a minor
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For men at least, entering middle age with plenty of muscle may lower the later risk of developing heart disease by more than 80 percent.
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Want to get strong, but don’t have time for a gym? Here we’ll teach you a simple 9-minute long strength training program that you can complete in your own home. All you need is a set of dumbbells (or another type of weight) a clock and the goal of a stronger body.
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A study published in The Journal of Nutrition found that adults with the highest levels of vitamin C had more skeletal muscle growth.
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It is unknown if adult human skeletal muscle has an epigenetic memory of earlier encounters with growth. We report, for the first time in humans, genome-wide DNA methylation (850,000 CpGs) and gene expression analysis after muscle hypertrophy (loading), return of muscle mass to baseline (unloading), followed by later hypertrophy (reloading). We discovered increased frequency of hypomethylation across the genome after reloading (18,816 CpGs) versus earlier loading (9,153 CpG sites). We also identified AXIN1, GRIK2, CAMK4, TRAF1 as hypomethylated genes with enhanced expression after loading that maintained their hypomethylated status even during unloading where muscle mass returned to control levels, indicating a memory of these genes methylation signatures following earlier hypertrophy. Further, UBR5, RPL35a, HEG1, PLA2G16, SETD3 displayed hypomethylation and enhanced gene expression following loading, and demonstrated the largest increases in hypomethylation, gene expression and muscle mass after later reloading, indicating an epigenetic memory in these genes. Finally, genes; GRIK2, TRAF1, BICC1, STAG1 were epigenetically sensitive to acute exercise demonstrating hypomethylation after a single bout of resistance exercise that was maintained 22 weeks later with the largest increase in gene expression and muscle mass after reloading. Overall, we identify an important epigenetic role for a number of largely unstudied genes in muscle hypertrophy/memory.
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You don’t have to lift like a bodybuilder (or look like one) to benefit from resistance training. And the best part is that it’s never too late to get started.
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In older people, the combination of shrinking muscle and declining immunity (often compounded by excess fat) is a perfect storm for a compromised immune system.
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Weight training prompts changes in the nervous system that prime the muscles to get bigger and stronger.
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“Building and maintaining strength is one of the most important things you can do at any stage of life, and it’s extremely important after age 50,” a sports medicine physician said.
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The study finds that, for men at least, entering middle age with plenty of muscle lowers the subsequent risk of developing heart disease by as much as 81 per cent.
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For men at least, entering middle age with plenty of muscle may lower the later risk of developing heart disease by more than 80 percent.
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First wave of Myth Busts from Cal State East Bay Kinesiology students. Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Whether its playing Chopsticks on the piano, riding a bike or repeatedly mistyping the same few letters, chances are you've experienced muscle memory. But there's considerable disagreement about where that 'memory' is stored.
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In his TEDxUCD 2014 talk Brendan explains the importance of maintaining muscle mass as we age.
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A new study shows muscle memory doesn't last when people take substantial time off exercise.
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Think of it as the muscle equivalent of osteoporosis. Just as our bones tend to become weaker and more brittle as we get older, our muscles are predisposed to wither with age. Starting as early as age 30, muscle mass begins to decline by about 1 percent—about a third of a pound—a year.
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Experts feel that a potentially dangerous obsession with bodybuilding is rising among men in the recent times. Muscle dysmorphia is the condition that is just the opposite of anorexia that would make the people suffering from it to believe that they do not have enough muscles. This disorder is fondly known as bigorexia but only fewer facts are available about this condition, as medical practitioners recognized it only in 1997 by doctors. .
If you thought anorexia was bad, well so is bigorexia. Its when you think you dont have enough muscle and want to get bigger(ripped). This situation is mostly on guys who are bodybuilders, they want to presume and show off that there strong. Some of these men over do their workouts by hitting the gym 6 days a week for 6 hours. Bigorexia is a bad disorder you shouldn't want to become addicted in doing. This is basically the opposite of anorexia, because these guys do eat but just make sure they burn all the calories they ate, and are forced to workout to get stronger. Because as men they want to precisely show that they can do anything(lift).
Men are just like women when it comes to their image. They think they have to look a certain way.
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Several striking new studies provide some clarity by showing that exercise seems able to drastically alter how genes operate, perhaps altering the risk for problems like obesity and diabetes.
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Scientists have discovered a new truth behind big muscles, turning 50 years of knowledge on its head.