Great push-up form starts with a rigid plank. Your arms should be fully extended, with your hands, elbows, and shoulders all in line, and your feet should be no more than 12 inches apart--the closer ...

That’s why I decided to try the Hindu push-up. Starting in a downward dog position, you bend your elbows, dive through your ...

The humble push-up is one of the greatest general conditioning exercises for climbers, and you can do them anywhere, no equipment required. "You always have ground," says Steve House, co-founder of ...

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 ...

Push-ups are a classic exercise to build strength even when you don't have gym equipment available, but not everybody can bang out rep after rep—sometimes you have to work on other exercises to build ...

The push-up pros said the classic exercise is a good measurement of muscular strength and endurance as one ages. The standard true push-up engages most major muscle groups in the body, including legs, ...

The bench presses, cable crossover machines, and dumbbell pullovers of the world are all great for building up your chest. But even if you can't access any of that gear when you're at home, you can ...

Sometimes it is a struggle to find the motivation to exercise. The idea of having a workout routine and sticking to it can be overwhelming. But it turns out that even just doing push-ups can benefit ...

I recently advised a reader with several options to help improve their push-up regimen. One of those options was to decrease their sets and increase their repetitions but keep the total volume the ...