Here's how muscle growth, or hypertrophy, works and four ways to optimize hypertrophy including nutrition and resistance ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty/Mike Harrington Losing fat and building muscle are like the Holy Grail of fitness ...

If you're looking to lose fat and build muscle rather than just lose weight, have you heard of body recomposition? The goal of body recomposition is to lose body fat while gaining muscle mass at the ...

Can you build muscle while you are eating fewer calories to lose fat and excess weight? Learn what may help meet your goals.

Body recomposition involves a combination of strategic fitness training and nutrition to help you lose fat and gain muscle ...

Whether you want to achieve or avoid a muscular look, you should know how muscle changes your body for the better. Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a ...

A beginner in his teens up through his 30s can expect to put on two to four pounds of lean muscle per month for the first two or three months of his training An intermediate (several months’ to a few ...

Preserving lean muscle mass while losing weight isn’t always easy, but it’s important to overall health and wellness. Maintaining muscle can also help with weight loss efforts. Lean muscle is more ...

When you start exercising, the hormone that controls appetite—ghrelin—goes down, which means you don’t feel very hungry. At the same time, the hormone that controls feelings of fullness—leptin—goes up ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? Anbereen Hasan grew up swimming and dabbled in Pilates as an adult, but she ...

You might notice your weight increase slightly after starting to supplement with creatine, but this initial weight gain doesn’t necessarily translate to an increase in fat mass. Here’s what to know.

Bodybuilding legend and former seven-time Mr. Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger discussed whether muscle growth stops as we get ...