Arnold Schwarzenegger’s documentary, Pumping Iron, brought in a worldwide revolution in bodybuilding, and it only happened ...

I was never an athlete. Or at least I never thought of myself as one. If you were a boy in Queens when I was growing up, only one thing mattered: how good you were at softball. I stunk. I couldn’t hit ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Forty-four years ago, bodybuilding wasn’t much more than just a marginal underground subculture—an ...

Enough with the grunting and groaning at the gym already. New research this week in PLoS One shows that, to build muscle, it’s more effective to lift a lighter weight many times than to lift a heavy ...