Upper-body strength shows up everywhere. It helps you push yourself up from the floor, carry groceries with confidence, and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty images/ Unknown The beauty of push-ups? There are endless ways to scale them.

Push-ups are a convenient exercise that you can do anywhere. They don’t need equipment or a gym membership. You can also adjust them to meet your own physical ability or to target specific muscles. If ...

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 ...

Seeing as they’re one of the tougher exercises out there, you probably don’t wake up wondering how many push-ups you should do in a day. (Is the answer zero? No?) They’re tiring and require a lot of ...

Push-ups always came easy to me. In my 20s and 30s, I could crank out more than 30 a day if I wanted to, and I loved how strong they made me feel. But the other day, when I went to do a set of 10 push ...

Regularly doing push-ups shapes your upper body. Or does it? Well, it’s not quite that simple. There are many parameters to consider. This is why determining the right number of push-ups for muscle ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here at Women’s Health, we love a challenge. That’s because an epic, goal-oriented training plan is key ...

Taking your push-ups to higher levels in two- or three-minute tests -- yes, there are three-minute, push-up tests -- requires a combination of strength training foundationally. Your first few push-ups ...