This simple bodyweight test, recommended by top sports medicine experts, may reveal far more about your heart health than you ...

Elite pushup standards after 45: men 30+ strict, 40+ exceptional; women 20+ strict. Learn what it means and how to improve.

The push-up is a well-known bodyweight exercise that builds upper body strength, targets the pecs, anterior deltoids (the fronts of your shoulders) and triceps and develops pushing power. Pushing ...

A well-known exercise is often used as a benchmark for physical fitness. Here are the indicative numbers broken down by ...

You've heard the saying "don't skip leg day," but have you ever wondered why there isn't a similar saying for the upper body? It's probably because no one is tempted to skip that work. Upper-body ...

That’s why I decided to try the Hindu push-up. Starting in a downward dog position, you bend your elbows, dive through your ...

For fitness purposes we can roughly divide the body into three sections: the lower body (legs), the core (abs), and upper ...

What muscles do push ups work? The classic strength-training exercise recruits lots of different muscles for movement and stabilization, but it mainly targets your chest, shoulders and upper arms.

Even though push-up training is often taught at an early age, many people just don't get it right. The proper way to do a basic push up is to assume the prone position with your back absolutely ...

This is a challenging calisthenics/run workout with active rest in the form of pushups. Do this as a fast 100-meter run (near ...

Push-ups come in many forms — some are progressions to make a push-up harder while others are regressions to make the upper-body exercise more accessible. One push-up variation that holds muscles ...