Sit on an incline bench with your chest forward, resting on the support. Grab dumbbells with a neutral grip, keeping your chest strong and allowing your arms to hang. Squeeze your back to pull the ...

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 upper back is an ...

For fitness purposes we can roughly divide the body into three sections: the lower body (legs), the core (abs), and upper body (everything from the chest up including arms, shoulders, and back—but not ...

If you are looking to knock out an intense cardio workout and build some strength at the same time, it’s hard to beat working out on a rowing machine. These devices—also known as rowing ergometers or ...

When building a workout routine, you really can’t go wrong with functional exercises, or ones that mirror actions you do in daily life. One prime example? The single-arm dumbbell row, an upper-body ...

With their ability to work your upper body, core and lower body simultaneously, few exercise machines offer the complete full-body workout that rowing machines can. And since rowing is a low impact ...