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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background Hamstring injury is a prevalent muscle injury in sports. Inconclusive evidence exists for eccentric hamstring strengthening to prevent hamstring injuries. One reason for this discrepancy ...

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 ...

We’re living longer than in previous generations, with one in eight elderly Australians now aged over 85. But the current gap between life expectancy (“lifespan”) and health-adjusted life expectancy ( ...

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 ...

We all know the stereotype of artists being a little ... you know, different, but two researchers are now saying that if you're perceived as being eccentric, people will think you make better art.

Eccentricity often comes with the image of someone who is strange, weird, or a complete oddball, but that’s not necessarily true. Along with peculiar, bizarre, freakish, and odd, eccentric can mean ...

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