Need a little help getting up to the bar? Here are the building blocks of one of the toughest moves in the gym.

The gold standard bodyweight exercise is notoriously tough. Here's what you need to know about nailing solid reps.

Up First, get yourself up to the bar, jumping up if you can, or using a stool if you can’t. Next, “hook your hand around the bar like monkeys in a barrel,” Dewar says. “Once you've done that, you’re ...

But lifting your entire body as you dangle from a bar is no easy task, which is why pull-ups can be, well, hella intimidating. Still, don’t shy away from the challenge—they’re infamously tough (and ...

Kipping pull-ups are great for increasing your speed and building muscle. Here's how to do the exercise safely. “Since you’re using momentum to execute the kipping pull-up, you generally perform more ...

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Ahhh, that first pull-up feeling. I’d say it took me about two years from knowing what a pull-up was to being able to do one, which sort of just…happened, in September 2020, on my home pull-up bar.

Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenged Pete Hegseth to a fitness test, each trying to do 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups in 10 minutes or less. The why is obvious. As the secretary of Health and ...