Young athletes are often plagued by upper-body dysfunction. Winging shoulder blades, weak core muscles, the inability to connect to the glutes, poor grip strength and weakness at the push-off point ...

I recently advised a reader with several options to help improve their push-up regimen. One of those options was to decrease their sets and increase their repetitions but keep the total volume the ...

Weight training is essential to good physical health and is especially important for aging well. A study by Harvard researchers found that middle-aged men who could do 20 push-ups had better heart ...

Push-ups are a full-body exercise that mainly strengthens your upper body. Doing variations of the push-up can help keep any bodyweight routine interesting and effective. Variations like the box ...

If you are into split routines that break down the body into pushing muscles (chest, shoulders, triceps), pulling muscles (back, biceps, grip), leg muscles (hips, lower back, legs) and the core ...

Regularly doing push-ups can shape your upper body. Or can it? Well, it’s not quite that simple. There are many factors to consider. This is why determining the right number of push-ups for muscle ...

Total-body workouts are great, but some people prefer to split up their workouts by body part instead. If you go this route, you'll likely have push day workouts in the mix. As the name implies, a ...

Many of us have been exercising from home for — checks watch — years because of the Covid pandemic. And although some have cautiously returned to the gym, others may not feel comfortable enough to do ...