Use these five dumbbell exercises to build your back and biceps muscles without a pull-up in sight. We know there are plenty of pull-up variations you can try to suit your current ability if you don't ...

If you’ve been looking to add size and strength to your arms, you’ve probably asked these common questions: How heavy should I lift? And what rep range actually delivers noticeable results? Enter the ...

In the age of functional training and workouts designed to supposedly help us live longer, I’ve found that working on my biceps has weirdly become a sort of guilty pleasure. Do stronger biceps help me ...

In its simplest terms, the pull-up seems pretty basic: hang from a bar, then pull yourself up to it. It’s not complicated, but that sure doesn’t mean that it’s easy. In fact, this bodyweight, no-fancy ...

When it comes to exercises targeting your biceps, the hammer curl is the bicep curl's slightly edgier sister, a variation you definitely want to add to your fitness wheelhouse for building muscle in ...

Esther Smith, DPT, Cert. MDT is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who has specialized in treating athletes, specifically rock climbers, for the last decade. She is a storyteller, a mountain athlete and a ...

Fitness trainers break down everything you need to know about two key upper body strength moves: the pull up vs chin up, plus how to do each. When you’re at the gym—or perhaps Muscle Beach in ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The most common goal I hear as a trainer is someone saying they want to be able to do pull-ups or ...

A pull-up is an exercise where you grasp a bar over your head and pull your body off the floor but which muscles do pulls up work? Well, this is an exercise that uses multiple muscle groups – in fact, ...

Last week, we talked pull-up alternatives, but that's not the only exercise that you probably ruin by flailing around like a strung-up fish whenever you start to get tired. To help save you from, well ...