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 ...

A concentric contraction is a type of muscle activation that causes tension on your muscle as it shortens. As your muscle shortens, it generates enough force to move an object. This is the most ...

Understand the science of lifting versus lowering to optimize your training and break through your next plateau.

We tend to focus on the upwards part of movement, but what happens on the way down can be just as beneficial.

People with anterior cruciate ligament injuries can lose up to 40% of the muscle strength in the affected leg -- with muscle atrophy remaining a big problem even after ACL reconstruction and physical ...

Eccentric contractions occur when a muscle elongates while generating force, often as it slows down a movement or resists gravity. Examples include walking downhill, lowering a squat, or the downward ...

Objective: To investigate the acute effects of isolated eccentric and concentric calf muscle exercise on Achilles tendon sagittal thickness. Design: Within-subject, counterbalanced, mixed design.