Sports & Fitness: Performance Training, Rules & Recovery

Elite athletic performance and general fitness are sustained through structured hypertrophy strategies, sport-specific conditioning, and rigorous adherence to injury prevention protocols.

Pushing the Workout

What Muscles Does the Stairmaster Work?

The Stairmaster provides a cardio workout, while building muscular endurance and toning lower-body muscles. Doing three Stairmaster sessions a week helps tone and slim the legs, reports "Fitness" magazine.

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Fit young woman exercises with gymnast rings

The Best Underarm Exercises for Women

If you refer to your underarms as bat wings or bingo wings, know that you are not alone. The common complaint of flabby underarms led the American Council on Exercise to sponsor a female-only study in 2011 to determine which exercises best tone the triceps.

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Man riding mountain bike

What Muscles Does Cycling Build?

Familiarize yourself with the muscles cycling builds, integrate exercises for them into your workouts, and you will become stronger during your rides. Cycling burns calories and builds muscular and aerobic endurance, contributing to improvements in body composition and physical capability.

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