Medically reviewed by Kierra Brown, RD Your body produces creatine, an organic compound that helps produce energy and keeps ...

If you didn’t already know you have different types of muscle fibers in your body, now you do. And depending on how you exercise or what sports you enjoy, you’re building and recruiting some ...

‘Between the aforementioned lower blood pressure, more type 1 muscle fibers and higher levels of anti-catabolic oestrogen (which prevents muscle damage), females are able to perform more reps and sets ...

Muscle fibers are divided into three types: slow twitch (type I) or red fibers due to the large number of mitochondria they possess, fast twitch (type IIb) or white fibers and intermediate (type IIa).