Experts detail the benefits of swimming, from strengthening your muscles to reducing inflammation and boosting your mental health—and how to get started. Swimming offers a low-impact exercise with ...

No matter your starting point, this program can help you discover the physical and mental health benefits of running.

Sleep is often treated as optional, but new nationwide research suggests it may be one of the most powerful factors shaping how long people live.

Alexis Cipoletti’s fears of attending college as a first-generation student from a rural West Virginia community evaporated ...

A recent study suggests that the most popular triceps isolation move may not be the most effective for building size—and a ...

King has worked with Mangine, a professor of exercise science in the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, since he ...

The company will launch a joint research program with the university named the Asics-Michigan Sport Innovation Center.

What you gain in a day by staying up late might be curtailing how long you live, according to a new study linking insufficient sleep to a lower life expectancy. While poor sleep has been previously ...

As the years pass, it can become harder to get a good night's rest. The most common sleep disorder in middle-aged and older adults is chronic insomnia, which for many translates to around three years ...

Exercise strengthens both the body and the mind, and researchers are uncovering the molecular messengers that make the connection. The messengers can also be transferred from an active mouse to a ...

The College of Idaho offers both a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Exercise Science, which use exercise as the lens to analyze human performance and human health. Through the ...

Cognitive functioning is not often cited as a personal goal for most exercisers, until it begins to decline. The rate of decline varies for everyone, but one thing is clear -- physical activity can ...