With your feet shoulder-width apart, hold both ends of a rope attached to the low pulley of a cable machine. Pressing your elbows in, palms facing each other, curl the rope toward your shoulders, ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...