A powerful, equipment-free exercise is taking over fitness routines, promising serious gains in strength, stability, and ...

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 ...

I recently advised a reader with several options to help improve their push-up regimen. One of those options was to decrease their sets and increase their repetitions but keep the total volume the ...

Plyometric (or, plyo) push-ups are a set of exercises that focus on your chest, shoulders, triceps, and abs. These push-ups are designed to give you more power, which is essential for fast and ...

Push-ups primarily target your chest but also hit your shoulders, triceps, and core muscles. The push-up is an exercise classic for a reason: It can be done anywhere, it doesn’t involve complicated ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Push-ups work multiple upper-body and core muscles ...