In the short-term, hypertrophy training causes microtrauma to the muscle, making it break down and leading to tiny tears.

Understanding how muscles grow is the key difference between training hard and training effectively. Muscle hypertrophy is ...

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If you're training for challenging special ops selection programs like BUD/S, you must have a full, well-trained arsenal of fitness elements. That means you need to have strength and power, endurance ...

WHEN medical terminology was less precise the expression "strained heart" was employed at times to describe obscurely but ominously diseased hearts. This diagnosis is no longer made, but currently the ...

New treatments for cardiac hypertrophy, a thickening of the heart in response to pressure overload, could potentially treat or even reverse the condition after a new breakthrough discovery identified ...