Ditch the complicated gym machinery and master your own body weight to build functional strength, a bulletproof back, and sculpted arms with this timeless movement.

In gyms across the United States, trainers are rediscovering one of the most effective upper-body exercises ever created: chin-ups. While flashy machines and complicated routines dominate social media ...

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There are tons of ways to strengthen your upper body by using all sorts of dumbbells and kettlebells and bands. We know this already. So I'm here to tell you to set those aside and forget about that ...

The Pull Up and Chin Up are challenging exercises, taking significant strength to perform correctly. Muscles worked include the back, shoulders, forearms and biceps. Other muscles work to stabilize ...

There are tons of chin-up variations that are easier or more challenging, depending on what you want, but with a kneeling chin-up, you get both. It’s easier on the shoulders at the bottom position, ...

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 ...

I’d been attending CrossFit workouts for two months before I began to learn the Kipping Pull-Up. Until that point, every Pull-Up I’d ever performed had been the more traditional strict, dead-arm hang, ...

I never considered myself a gym person. Cardio was my go-to. As a New Yorker and mother of three, I considered myself aerobically fit - regularly doing cycling classes, tennis, long runs and dog walks ...