Planks and push-ups can be intimidating, but this modified push-up and plank workout can help you ease into the moves by introducing variations that can be both progressed and regressed. That’s where ...

Fitness tests often use a modified push-up to assess women’s upper-body strength, but most healthy women are capable of performing full push-ups. (Video: Alexa Juliana Ard / The Washington Post) What ...

Experts say you don’t need a gym or fancy equipment to build strength, improve endurance, and protect your long-term health — ...

Push-ups are one of the most effective bodyweight exercises for building upper body and core strength. But if you’re at the start of your fitness journey, then a push-up may be deceptively challenging ...

What you are about to read is a call to arms — and shoulders and pecs and abs, a guide to why almost all of us should be doing more pushups and how to do them well. Pushups are a fundamental human ...

With pull-ups, our upper backs, shoulders, arms, glutes and thighs all get a workout. They’re also among the best ways to improve grip strength, an indicator of overall muscle health and a biomarker ...

Push-ups are a full-body exercise that strengthens the chest, arms, shoulders, and core, while also enhancing posture and supporting bone health. Doing push-ups regularly can improve heart health, ...