Here's exactly what you're working when you hit the bar to do one of the most comprehensive upper body exercises ...

Pull-ups are notoriously hard to crack – in part, because they require a high level of full-body strength that takes most ...

Pull-ups are impressive, which means that for many athletes, they're aspirational. If you can't do one, odds are you'd like to. If you can, maybe you're gunning for the single-arm or weighted ...

RFK Jr. and Sean P. Duffy raised eyebrows with an impromptu pull-up contest at the airport. Why does the age-old exercise seem newly fraught with symbolic weight?

Angola, the YouTube star lost a friendly pull-up contest to a local, leaving him hungry for redemption. He jumped into a foot ...

A pull-up is an exercise where you grasp a bar over your head and pull your body off the floor but which muscles do pulls up work? Well, this is an exercise that uses multiple muscle groups – in fact, ...

The pull-up is one of the most recognized and respected upper-body strength exercises on earth. If you’ve ever seen a training montage in film or television, you’ve probably seen the lead character ...

You do not have to do hundreds of daily pull-ups and push-ups to improve your fitness test scores. Many do, and while they find success up to a point, following this routine for too long will ...

Speed wasn't happy about losing a pull-up challenge, so he insisted he could beat the same guy in a foot race.

Beginning in November 2025, the FBI will require special agent candidates to perform pull-ups as part of their graded physical fitness exam. Throughout the military, pull-ups are a tested exercise in ...

Esther Smith, DPT, Cert. MDT is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who has specialized in treating athletes, specifically rock climbers, for the last decade. She is a storyteller, a mountain athlete and a ...