Push-ups and pull-ups are popular bodyweight exercises with distinct benefits. Pull-ups target the upper back and biceps, while push-ups focus on chest muscles. Both exercises can be modified for ...

As a general note, you cannot do a pull-up with a weak core. Your core muscles (which includes several muscle groups, like the obliques, abdominals and diaphragm) stabilize your spine and keep ...

A muscular, athletic body radiates health and vitality. But how can you really build muscle effectively? FITBOOK takes a ...

Add some muscle stamina drills of the same muscle groups (back/biceps) to help you get more pull-ups. Repeat three times. Pull-ups: Max (see whether you can do one or more reps).

Push-pull training consists of two workouts: pushing exercises for the chest, shoulders, and triceps and pulling exercises for the back, biceps, and forearms. This can help improve muscle power. A ...

This 5-Minute Warm-Up Primes Every Muscle Group So You Can Max Out Your Pull-Up Workouts. Ready to raise the bar? By Jacqueline Andriakos, NASM-CPT Published: Apr 14, 2025 7:00 AM EDT.

There’s a reason why trainers swear by pull-ups: The move works every muscle in your upper body. But while they’re all-stars at increasing your strength, doing a pull-up (and, most importantly ...

Pushing a muscle beyond its comfort zone is perhaps the simplest way to describe muscle hypertrophy, and both the full-body workout and a push-pull-legs (PPL) split can be used to achieve this.