Calves, forearms, obliques: These are all muscles that can be hard to build up, but the level of difficulty usually differs from person to person. Not just smaller muscles, but sometimes even certain ...

Chest workouts can look (and feel) so similar that constituent exercises are often just called ‘chest exercises’, without any differentiation about specific muscle groups that each exercise hits. This ...

The Best and Worst Chest Exercises, According to a Trainer originally appeared on Men's Fitness. Chest day is sacred. But if you’re just benching and hoping for the best, you’re leaving serious gains ...

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 major muscle in ...

To get the answer to this question, first, it is important to know a little more about dips. Dips are generally performed using a bar. It is a pair of a semicircular elevated bar and one has to stand ...

Forget the grueling two-hour chest days. Leading exercise scientists reveal that you only need 4 to 8 high-intensity sets per ...

While lifting heavy is the go-to for building upper-body strength and size, bodyweight training can be just as effective, especially when you're using gravity as resistance. Although there are tons of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You don’t necessarily need a bulky set of dumbbells to get the chest muscle activation you seek.

Aside from a set of bulging biceps, nothing quite screams, "I go to the gym!" like a set of well-rounded and well-defined pectoralis major - AKA pecs. It is the body part that WWE wrestlers grease up ...

Derek Lunsford, the silver medalist of 2022 Mr. Olympia, is renowned for his superb body and, when it comes to competition, possibly has the greatest fitness on the field. Lunsford is back in the gym, ...