When you’re using machines, you also reduce the recruitment of the surrounding stabilizing muscles. Take bench presses: With free weights, you need to activate more of your deltoid muscles to hold the ...

Our bodies move in various directions to perform tasks such as picking up a child, carrying luggage, or getting up and down from the floor. Functional core workouts strengthen the core muscles in all ...

Physical therapy is routinely recommended for knee pain attributed to a degenerative meniscal tear, but its efficacy has not been established. We randomly assigned participants 45 to 85 years of age ...

Assisted living communities should increase their efforts to encourage more residents to engage in physical activity, and activity directors need to be trained better in moderate- and high-intensity ...

Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation has been slowly gaining momentum for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but access is still a challenge. "The science shows that there is greater benefit ...

Functional strength is key to everyday life. It helps you seamlessly perform movements like standing, sitting, squatting to tie your shoes, and twisting to look behind you. Improving strength is your ...

A demographic shift toward an aging population is occurring worldwide. Commensurate with this trend, age-related diseases are also rising. Although aging is an immutable part of life, biological aging ...

Clinical guidelines broadly recommend exercise training for patients with heart failure (HF). This review examines clinical benefits of exercise training across HF subtypes, focusing on clinical ...

The Air Force is likely to up its fitness standards, including the addition of a 2-mile run and twice-yearly testing, Air Force officials confirmed to Task & Purpose. “Yes, PT changes are coming,” ...

Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) leads to motor and non-motor impairments, contributing to sarcopenia and reduced functional independence. While functional strength exercises can help manage these ...

People in a guided exercise program experienced a 28 percent drop in their risk of colon cancer returning and a 37 percent lower risk of death, a new study found. Colon cancer survivors who adopted a ...

Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that supervised exercise therapy improves functional status, walking performance, and quality of life in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) ...