If you engage in any sort of athletic endeavor, you know that any stretching you do tends to emphasize the lower body, if you even stretch at all. It makes sense: Your hamstrings, quads, and calves ...

Many daily activities-steering a car, typing on a keyboard, chopping vegetables for dinner, even hugging someone you love-are forward- reaching movements. Even in yoga practice, you're often ...

Stretching for neck and shoulders is an important part of any recovery routine (especially now that we're working from home!). Try this easy routine. If you’ve been following along with the plan ...

The primary benefit of the French press is building triceps strength and muscle. ‘How much strength or growth you get depends on load, intensity and how close you train to fatigue, but that’s the main ...

On the backside of each of your upper arms is an unsung hero. With the right amount of consistent, balanced strength training, you can give it the attention it deserves—and in doing so, stretch the ...

On those arm-blasting days when you just don’t have it in you move heavy weight, there’s no shame in incorporating a gentler alternative, like bodyweight exercises. In this case, we’re talking the ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...

Looking for a move that will give your upper body some stretching and strengthening in one fell swoop? Try the "sphinx push-up." director of fitness and operations at members-only fitness club Ghost, ...

Think doing the best bicep exercises is enough to get you jacked arms like The Rock? You’re mistaken. Yes, the biceps may give your arms that nice rounded ‘peak’ in the front of your t-shirt, but it's ...

Below you’ll find nine different tricep exercises, focused specifically on that muscle group. We found the top fitness trainers to create everything from bodyweight, to Tabata, to dumbbell workouts ...