Eccentric exercise involves lengthening muscles which increases size by adding stress. Concentric moves shorten muscles for gains with less soreness.

Once reserved for athletes, eccentric exercise is becoming increasingly popular in everyday training and physical therapy—especially for people with musculoskeletal conditions like Parkinson’s disease ...

The prescription of eccentric loading is considered as a mainstay of non-operative rehabilitation programmes for mid-substance chronic Achilles tendinopathy. Such exercises have some degree of ...

Once reserved for athletes, eccentric exercise is becoming increasingly popular in everyday training and physical therapy—especially for people with musculoskeletal conditions like Parkinson’s disease ...

Lowering, as opposed to lifting, your weights, with an eccentric strength training regimen, could make your workouts more efficient. If you’re looking to maximize your time in the gym, you might ...

A study finds part of the reason people love Lady Gaga and Vincent Van Gogh is that these are very eccentric artists, and people have strong, unconscious stereotypes that eccentric artists are better.

Are you trying to get in shape for a big sports event or race? Do you want a bikini beach body this summer? Try eccentric muscle training – there’s a lot of evidence to suggest it is more effective ...

This is Your Quick Training Tip, a chance to learn how to work smarter in just a few moments so you can get right to your workout. What many guys don’t realize, however, is that when it comes to ...

If you tend to breeze through the "easy" part of an exercise – like lowering into a squat or letting your dumbbells drop after a curl – you might be missing a major opportunity to build strength. That ...

Background The Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) reduces the risk of hamstring strain injury (HSI). It is unknown if measuring eccentric hamstring strength during the NHE can predict risk of future HSI ...

We were astonished to see just how asymmetric this disk is,” says Joshua Bennett Lovell of the Center for Astrophysics. That ...