Your body type influences your metabolism and health risks. Having an apple- or pear-shaped body can affect your risk of metabolic syndrome. Body types often change as you get older and lose muscle ...

Isolating individual muscle fibers and characterizing their myosin heavy chain (MHC) content using SDS-PAGE has become an increasingly common method for describing skeletal muscle fiber type ...

Everyone is familiar, at least hand-wavingly, with the distinction between slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle-fiber types. The former are great for running marathons; the latter are ideal for ...