It's easy to get into the habit of thinking about workouts in a fairly simple, black-and-white way: Increase the amount of reps performed, or increase the weight lifted, and you'll make gains. This ...

Pull-ups are impressive, which means that for many athletes, they're aspirational. If you can't do one, odds are you'd like to. If you can, maybe you're gunning for the single-arm or weighted ...

Achieving a pull-up is a common fitness goal for many of my clients. While it seems like a basic, functional move, pull-ups are actually very challenging. If your first attempts didn’t get you far, ...

Ah, pull-ups. They’re one of the most straightforward exercises around, and yet somehow one of the most difficult to do — especially with good form. They’re also an ideal way to improve your grip ...

Last week, Brigette Williams talked through the basics of building strength to do a pull-up. She says once you have mastered the TRX and assisted pull-up, you can move to a bar or pull-up machine.

Strong thighs, powerful calves and indefatigable stamina. Soccer players are famed for many things, but upper-body posterior endurance is possibly not something you’d expect they need to ply their ...

The pull-up is considered the heavy weightlifting exercise of the calisthenics world. When you're doing them properly, nearly 100% of your body weight is pulled off the ground and over a bar. Besides ...

One of the best workouts of this week was a series of exercises that made calisthenics and running just a little bit harder than normal. After a good warmup with the basics of calisthenics and cardio, ...