Health Claims

When incline curls are added to a resistance training routine that includes multiple exercises, the upper part of the biceps muscles grows more than when only standard barbell curls are performed.

Performing different types of biceps curls, such as hammer curls or preacher curls, leads to different amounts of muscle growth and strength improvements depending on how the movement is performed.

Using blood flow restriction with light weights, both incline curls and preacher curls produce similar amounts of muscle growth in different parts of the biceps.

Among women who train recreationally, preacher curls lead to more muscle growth in the elbow flexors than incline curls, especially toward the lower part of the muscle.

When performed by the same person, incline curls lead to more growth in the main bicep muscle, while preacher curls lead to more growth in the forearm muscles that help bend the elbow.

Different bicep curl exercises lead to different patterns of muscle growth: incline curls cause more growth near the shoulder end of the biceps, while preacher curls cause more growth in the...

When performing incline dumbbell curls, the upper part of the biceps and related elbow flexor muscles tends to grow thicker than when performing preacher curls. Conversely, preacher curls tend to...

Engaging in 3,000 kcal of aerobic exercise per week for 12 weeks is associated with a reduction in how much overweight adults are motivated to seek out and consume snack foods, even when their hunger...

When overweight adults do 3,000 kcal worth of aerobic exercise per week for 12 weeks, they lose fat but do not eat more to compensate. This suggests that eating more in response to exercise is not...

Engaging in 3,000 kcal of aerobic exercise per week for 12 weeks leads to a reduction in body fat mass and percentage body fat in overweight adults, even when overall energy use and resting...

When people who are overweight increase their aerobic exercise from 1,500 to 3,000 calories burned per week, their bodies reduce energy use by a similar amount in both cases—around 950 to 1,000...

In overweight adults who are inactive, doing aerobic exercise that burns 3,000 calories per week for 12 weeks leads to measurable decreases in body fat, while exercising at half that energy...

In postmenopausal women, those who become less active in daily life—like walking less or standing less—tend to compensate more for exercise, but this link is not yet proven with certainty.

In postmenopausal women, changes in how much food they report eating do not reliably explain why some people lose more weight than others when they start exercising.

In postmenopausal women, many do not lose as much weight as expected from exercise because their bodies adjust energy use in ways that offset calorie burn, and a significant portion even gain weight...

In postmenopausal women, increasing aerobic exercise from 150 to 300 minutes per week does not lead to a consistent change in how much the body adjusts its energy use in response to exercise.

In postmenopausal women, those who experience larger increases in aerobic fitness from exercise tend to have less of a reduction in the expected weight loss from that exercise, even when the amount...

Overweight women who engage in 12 weeks of supervised aerobic exercise experience measurable decreases in waist size, total body weight, and body mass index.

In overweight women who performed supervised aerobic exercise for twelve weeks, changes in how hungry or full they felt were not linked to measurable changes in appetite-related hormones.

In overweight women, doing 12 weeks of supervised aerobic exercise does not lead to less movement during daily activities or more sitting, but it is linked to less total time spent sitting.

In overweight women, doing supervised aerobic exercise for 12 weeks is linked to eating more food overall, snacking more often, and feeling hungrier before meals while feeling less full, which may...

Over 12 weeks, doing supervised aerobic exercise that burns 500 calories five times per week is linked to a decrease in body fat and an increase in lean body mass in women who are overweight, with an...

When overweight or obese individuals perform aerobic exercise that burns at least 1,500 kilocalories per week without changing their diet, their bodies do not fully offset the extra energy burned,...

In older adults who are still physically healthy, spending more time disconnected from digital communication is linked more closely to the early signs of physical decline than being socially isolated.