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For female soccer players, taking a cold water bath after a game doesn’t help with jumping ability two days later any more than a regular-temperature bath — so the benefits of cold baths might only...
Taking a cold water bath after a soccer game might help female players bounce back faster the next day compared to a lukewarm bath, especially when it comes to jumping ability.
Taking a cold water bath after a soccer game might help female players reduce muscle soreness and inflammation more than sitting in lukewarm water.
Whether you do preacher curls or inclined curls, your biceps muscles activate in pretty much the same way if you're using a moderate weight and pushing to failure. Basically, the 'effort' your...
Measuring muscle electrical activity with sensors on the skin during bicep exercises doesn’t tell us where the muscle will grow more or less—this finding is from the abstract summary, full study...
If young, active guys take a 10-minute cold bath at 10°C after lifting weights, their muscle temperature drops by about 7°C and stays low for over half an hour.
Taking a 10-minute cold bath at 10°C after a hard strength workout doesn’t help young, active guys bounce back faster in terms of muscle power or strength within a few hours.
If young, active guys take a 10-minute cold bath at 10°C after a hard strength workout, they can lift way more weight in their next workout just six hours later—about 38% more—compared to just...
Even though birth control pills might help women build more muscle during training, they don’t actually get stronger than women not on the pill — so bigger muscles don’t always mean more strength.
Women who take certain birth control pills might build more muscle during weight training than those who don’t, especially in their arms and legs.
When you lift weights, your muscles get a little damaged and inflamed — and that’s actually a good thing. This inflammation helps your muscles heal and get stronger, and usually your body can handle...
If you're new to lifting weights, how muscular you already are doesn't really predict how much you'll grow from training — it's not a strong clue.
Taking cold water baths after working out might make your muscles feel less sore, but it won’t help you recover faster and could actually slow muscle growth by blocking the body’s natural healing...
If we use sensors to see which parts of a muscle are working hardest during a workout, those same areas are the ones that will grow the most over time.
Even though leg extensions only move one joint, they might work your front thigh muscles better than squats or leg presses because they really target one specific muscle in the quad.
Leaning back during leg extensions might make your front thigh muscle work harder and grow more because it stretches the muscle more during the move.
Doing leg extensions might grow your front thigh muscle more than leg presses, even though both workouts work the other big thigh muscles just as hard.
Even though squats work your legs hard, muscles like the hamstrings and front thigh muscle don't grow much because they get pulled in two directions at once during the movement.
Your quads work hard during squats no matter how heavy the weight, but your glutes really kick in only when the weights are heavy or you're almost too tired to keep going.
When you squat with heavier weights, your butt muscles (glutes) have to work way harder than your thigh muscles (quads), more than you'd expect just from the added weight.
When beginners do leg exercises, the way their muscles turn on during the workout tends to match how much those muscles grow after 12 weeks — suggesting that which muscles work harder during exercise...
If you're new to working out, doing leg presses twice a week might build more leg muscle in less time than just doing knee extensions, because leg presses work more muscles at once — like your quads,...
If you're new to working out, doing leg presses twice a week for 12 weeks can noticeably grow your butt and inner thigh muscles, but doing just knee extensions won’t help those muscles much.
If you're new to working out, doing leg presses or knee extensions twice a week for 12 weeks will grow your thigh muscles about the same amount—so pick the one you like!