As a personal trainer and nutritionist, I have worked with numerous clients wanting to bulk up. Having more muscle can be advantageous for your aesthetics, overall health, and longevity. While it is ...

Justin Khan, 34, told Business Insider's Nutrition Clinic that his goals were to build strength and muscle and reduce his body fat to 15%. A nutritionist told him he had a choice of two strategies to ...

In one of my last pieces, I broke down how training frequency can drive adaptations for the everyday athlete. Today, we're exploring a powerful lever: vitamin D as a potent modulator of body ...

Building muscle seems to be on everyone’s mind lately, as it should be. Packing on lean mass has benefits for your metabolism, blood sugar, daily functioning, and longevity, just to name some of the ...

Exercise researcher Nicholas Burd says there was a long-held belief in his field that making gains in the gym required eating meat or other animal products. This wasn't a matter of bro science — the ...

We all know getting enough protein is important. Protein supports muscle growth, keeps you feeling full, aids with weight management, and supports a healthy immune system. It's even more important to ...

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Many gym influencers believe eccentric contractions lead to greater muscle growth. This stems from research showing that eccentric-only training produces larger post-workout mTOR signaling responses ...

UC Berkeley researchers mapped the brain circuits that control growth hormone during sleep, uncovering a feedback system where sleep fuels hormone release, and the hormone regulates wakefulness. The ...