Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. The upper back is an ...

You’ve likely done this exercise more times than you can count, but its benefits go far beyond just back gains.

Slow and controlled movements can help build our muscle strength which is helpful when trying to maintain muscles in the upper back and arms. Select Health fitness instructor Denise Lovelace says ...

It’s possible to gain strength and muscle with a low-volume, high-intensity training approach. Jeff Nippard gained muscle with intense, low-volume workouts over a 100-day experiment. Science shows ...

There are countless ways to get your workout done. You can opt to do the entire upper body in a session or split the upper body into pulling and pushing movements over two days. A third option is to ...

A trainer shares a tip for how many times you should work out your upper body per week and why. She also shares a sample ...

A certified trainer shares a 7-minute standing routine that builds full-body strength after 60 faster than long gym workouts.

A typical weekly split routine when training hard with calisthenics and/or weights is the Push-Pull-Leg Split. In this, for the first three days of the week, you do all the upper-body exercises that ...

You can also do most of the exercises in this Pilates arms workout from the comfort of your yoga mat, with just a set of ...