Here’s a deeper dive into which muscles you’ll work when doing a push-up. What Muscles Do Push-Ups Target? To perform a classic push-up, you’ll start in a high plank position, bend your elbows to ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Push-ups work your chest, arms, core, and legs all at ...

Mastering push-ups and pull-ups requires progressing from building strength to developing muscular endurance. Conquering your first repetition of these calisthenics exercises is a matter of strength, ...

Weight training is essential to good physical health and is especially important for aging well. A study by Harvard researchers found that middle-aged men who could do 20 push-ups had better heart ...