This month for our “Econ Extra Credit” segment, we’re watching the 1977 documentary “Pumping Iron,” featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. The film did a lot to pull the sport of ...

Just because you’re putting in all the hours and pumping through all the reps doesn’t mean you’re getting the best possible results. Certain things can hold you back from achieving your full fitness ...

“Their American dream is bigger than yours,” proclaim the ads for Pain & Gain, the true-crime comedy about some Miami Beach bodybuilders. But Michael Bay’s satirical ode to greed was a 97-pound ...

Decades after Pumping Iron first hit screens, Arnold Schwarzenegger is offering a fresh take on one of his most infamous comments about bodybuilding. In the film, the then-bodybuilding champion ...

Two new studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine underscore the benefits of exercise in preventing Type 2 diabetes and reducing the risk of death in people who already have the disease.

The phone call came from Phoenix, and with it an offer that we couldn't refuse: Would we mind if a company called DKM, Inc., dropped off a modified 1978 Trans Am Firebird? En route to their customer, ...

Democrats running in next year’s midterms are pumping out videos of themselves pumping iron. In one video, Texas Senate candidate Colin Allred stands in his home gym after a workout and, still in a ...

For a long time, weightlifting was relegated to the realm of muscle heads, and Conan the Barbarian-types. Now, people of all ages and sizes are lifting to gain strength and help their bodies thrive ...

Even after CM Punk has screwed him out of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship on multiple occasions, Drew McIntyre hasn't stopped trying to needle his rival, whether it be mocking Punk's torn ...

A March 2014 study from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) shows that the more muscle mass you have as you get older, the less likely you are to die prematurely. The new findings add to ...

You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. The photo op is an emblem of a discarded time. Taken in 1991, during the second ...