The American College of Sports Medicine recently released new resistance training guidelines—its first update in 17 years.

A single exercise session increased electrical activity in a brain region tied to learning and memory, a first-of-its-kind study showed.

A single, half-hour session of moderate exercise is enough to confer an immediate mood-boosting effect, and now scientists have figured out why. In mice – and likely humans – that boost comes from the ...

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Exercising muscles pumps out substances that can suppress the growth of breast cancer cells, according to an important new study of exercise and cancer. The study, published last month, involved 32 ...

One workout a day may keep the cancer away, according to a new study. Scientists from Edith Cowan University in Australia have shown that a single exercise session can suppress tumor growth in cancer ...

A single session of physical exercise can spawn a boost of neural activity in brain networks that underlie learning and memory, according to a new study led by the University of Iowa.