Both pull-ups and chin-ups work back muscles, but each works different muscles and uses a different grip. Knowing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Revisiting basic exercises with a critical eye can help identify faults in your form. Last week we looked at the push-up. Today, we discuss the pull-up, one of those exercise that should be remastered ...

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 ...

The biceps curl is one of those exercises everyone already thinks they know how to do or is too basic to improve on. Just grab a pair of dumbbells and start curling, right? The reality is there are ...

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, ...

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The biggest challenge of doing pull-ups is performing the first one, which is a pure strength exercise, and this single pullup tends to take the most time to develop for most people. However, ...