Anyone who's active will at some point experience sore muscles. This is especially true if you're trying a new type of workout, working out for longer than usual, or increasing the intensity of your ...

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Muscle soreness is a familiar sensation for anyone who’s recently intensified their workout regimen or returned to the gym after a hiatus. This discomfort, technically known as delayed onset muscle ...

Your muscles make every pullup, press, jump, crunch, run, squat, and curl possible. But after a brutal workout, taking a single step can feel like the greatest form of punishment. Vigorous exercise ...

Heimlich is a contributor for TIME. Heimlich is a contributor for TIME. A hard workout can come back to haunt you. When you wake up the next morning and try to get out of bed, everyday motions like ...

IF THE ROAD to hell is paved with good intentions, the road back to fitness this summer after a long hiatus from our gym routines is a traffic-clogged freeway through perdition. Some trainers say ...

Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a New York City-based magazine and book writer whose work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Women’s Health, Health, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Prevention, ...

Jakob Roze, CSCS, is a health writer and high-end personal trainer. He is the founder and CEO of RozeFit, a high-end concierge personal training practice and online blog. Light activity like walking ...

You don’t have to hobble around for days after every workout to build strength. The idea that muscle soreness equals muscle growth is one of the biggest myths in fitness, and it’s keeping people from ...

Between running and strength training, my legs are always in need of a little extra TLC. It doesn’t help that I sometimes (OK, often) skip my post-workout stretch. So when I heard about Therabody’s ...