The biggest challenge of doing pull-ups is performing the first one, which is a pure strength exercise, and this single pullup tends to take the most time to develop for most people. However, ...

Mastering push-ups and pull-ups requires progressing from building strength to developing muscular endurance. Conquering your first repetition of these calisthenics exercises is a matter of strength, ...

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 ...

People often associate building strength with big weights. That’s one way to go about it, but it’s not the only way – and there’s one exercise that shines as an example of a move that breaks the iron ...

In the ever-evolving world of fitness, women are constantly breaking barriers and redefining strength. And today, many women seem to be more interested than ever in tackling one of the toughest feats ...

Ahhh, that first pull-up feeling. I’d say it took me about two years from knowing what a pull-up was to being able to do one, which sort of just…happened, in September 2020, on my home pull-up bar.

Hanging from a pull-up bar can improve your grip strength and shoulder mobility—but dead hangs are also kind of overrated. Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications ...

Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy erected a pull-up bar outside a bathroom in the main concourse at Reagan National ...