How firmly you can squeeze your hand provides clinicians with a snapshot into your overall health—with studies consistently ...

Let’s be honest, how often do you consider your grip strength when training? Probably not a lot. We get it, there are way sexier things to think about, like how you’re going to smash your squat PB or ...

Want to know how healthy you are? There’s one health metric experts can look to for hints about everything from your cardiovascular risks to your brain health and even your risk of dying by any cause: ...

Strength training supports healthy aging by preserving muscle, bone density, metabolic health, and independence.

If you’ve scrolled through fitness TikTok or Instagram lately, you’ve probably seen the dead hang trend, people simply hanging from a pull-up bar for as long as they can. It looks simple enough, ...

For a program to be most effective, Washington recommends sticking to it for at least four to five weeks before changing it ...

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Stand with your feet just wider than shoulder-width apart holding a dumbbell with both hands at chest-height, elbows high.

With pull-ups, our upper backs, shoulders, arms, glutes and thighs all get a workout. They’re also among the best ways to ...

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