Traditional bodybuilding advice has been to push workouts to the point of failure, and that soreness is an indicator of effectiveness. But recent studies show there’s another way ...

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MIKE COLTER HASN'T always had to look swole. The 46-year-old actor describes one of his earlier notable roles, Lemond Bishop in CBS's The Good Wife, as having one real physical requirement: looking ...

You can shed fat while sculpting muscle with the right nutrition and strength training. If you're trying to lose fat while building muscle, body recomposition is the approach you're looking for. You ...

What are big muscles for? They were sidelined long ago by the Industrial Revolution; engines drive plows and hammer steel more cheaply and less complainingly. Somehow, though, they retain an ambiguous ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." THE BENCH PRESSES, cable crossover machines, and dumbbell pullovers of the world are all great for ...

Author Michael Brodeur takes the gym too seriously, and not seriously at all at the same time, in his book “Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscles” in an effort to show the readers that ...

Many of us want to get buff for aesthetic reasons, but building muscle helps health and longevity. It's a myth that you need to spend hours in the gym to build muscle. Exercises such as squats, ...

SWOLE: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle. By Michael Brodeur. Beacon Press. 256 pages. $28.95. Author Michael Brodeur takes the gym too seriously, and not seriously at all at the same time, ...