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  1. Strength training: Get stronger, leaner, healthier - Mayo Clinic

    Lean muscle mass naturally diminishes with age. Your body fat percentage ... Cold muscles are more prone to injury than are warm muscles. Choose a weight or ...

  2. Muscle strains - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    Overview. A muscle strain is an injury to a muscle or a tendon — the fibrous tissue that connects muscles to bones. Minor injuries may only overstretch a ...

  3. Overview - Muscle Physiology and Metabolism Laboratory - Mayo Clinic Research

    The Muscle Physiology and Metabolism Laboratory of Ian R. Lanza, Ph.D., at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is focused on understanding how skeletal muscle ...

  4. Muscle pain - Mayo Clinic

    Almost everyone has sore, aching muscles now and then. Muscle pain can involve a small area or your whole body. The pain may range from mild to severe and ...

  5. Muscle cramp - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    A muscle cramp is a sudden, unexpected tightening of one or more muscles. Sometimes called a charley horse, a muscle cramp can be very painful. Exercising or ...

  6. Muscle Loss and Aging: Mayo Clinic Expert Discusses Strategies, Therapies to Restore Muscle Health

    Notes that exercise remains the 'silver bullet' to maintain muscle mass in the aging. ROCHESTER, Minn. — The progressive loss of skeletal muscle during aging, ...

  7. Muscular dystrophy - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

    Muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases that cause progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass. In muscular dystrophy, abnormal genes (mutations) ...

  8. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that affect motor unit and muscle health during aging - Mayo Clinic

    Muscle fibers within a unit are size-matched to their motor neurons. The various motor units then are regulated by recruitment and rate coding, which dictates ...

  9. Muscle pain Causes - Mayo Clinic

    The most common causes of muscle pain are tension, stress, overuse and minor injuries. This type of pain is usually limited to just a few muscles or a small ...

  10. Core Muscle Strength — Why it's Important to Maintain - Mayo Clinic News Network

    The abdominal muscles are the front of the core box. At the back are the paraspinal muscles that support the spine, and the large gluteal muscles. This muscular ...