For fitness purposes we can roughly divide the body into three sections: the lower body (legs), the core (abs), and upper ...

Why push-ups matter: They build chest, triceps, shoulders, and core strength while serving as a benchmark for functional fitness and longevity. Form is everything: Proper alignment, elbow position, ...

While it’s fun to use all the machines and free-weights in a commercial gym, all most people really need to enjoy a comprehensive upper-body workout is a pair of dumbbells. A set of dumbbells will ...

A typical weekly split routine when training hard with calisthenics and/or weights is the Push-Pull-Leg Split. In this, for the first three days of the week, you do all the upper-body exercises that ...