Van Vossel K, et al. Evidence for simultaneous muscle atrophy and hypertrophy in response to resistance training in humans. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 2024.

This is the first paper to look at what happens to muscles that are not exercised during resistance training. These authors had 21 participants perform resistance training for 10 weeks in which they performed specific exercises to target their biceps, hamstring, and...

Bowed Legs and Knee Arthritis: The Importance of Maintaining Hip Strength as You Age  

Click Here to download a PDF of this article Tibial varum, or bowed legs, is a normal alignment pattern in toddlers that typically corrects itself by about age 2, when the knees gradually straighten and shift to a slight valgus alignment. A common cause for the...

How to Prevent and Even Reverse the Formation of Bunions Without Surgery

Click Here to download a PDF of this article Listen to Podcast Even though the word bunion is widely used to describe the condition in which the big toe angles out while the first metatarsal angles in, the technical name for this condition is either hallux abductus or...

Chang, Yi‐Chieh, et al. The effects of a preconditioning vibration rolling warm‐up on multidirectional repeated sprinting‐induced muscle damage. European Journal of Sport Science 24.1 (2024): 36-44.

Athletes have been using foam rollers to warm up before exercising for the past 20 years, and recently, foam rollers that vibrate at specific frequencies are being used to relax muscles and potentially improve performance (Fig. 1). While prior research shows that...

Kinoshita M, et al. Triceps surae muscle hypertrophy is greater after standing versus seated calf-raise training. Frontiers in Physiology 14 (2023): 1272106.

This interesting paper evaluated the best ways to produce hypertrophy in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles. The authors emphasize that these important muscles are notoriously unresponsive to strength training and they list several studies showing that while the...