Pull the barbell in a straight line toward your lower stomach or navel, driving your elbows back and keeping them tucked ...

Over 50 and stuck in the gym maze? Learn how four compound lifts, smartly programmed with protein and rest, can reshape your ...

Muscle matters regardless of age – but proactively maintaining muscle becomes increasingly important as we get older. From around age 30, our bodies naturally – and gradually – begin losing muscle ...

When I first started running, I thought that a solid core workout involved blasting through some crunches and sit-ups, then ...

Warming up is optional, but a few reps of each exercise without weights can help you prepare.

Morning training has a way of setting the tone for the entire day, especially when your goal is to build and maintain muscle after 55. Strength work early in the day helps wake up your nervous system, ...

Grasp your bar with an overhand grip, hands wider than shoulder width-apart. Hang from the bar. Pull your shoulders blades ...

HOW TO DO IT: Hold a heavy dumbbell in each hand at your sides. Stand tall with your shoulders down and core engaged. Walk in ...

Strengthen and reduce fracture risk with this routine that combines weight-bearing, resistance, and impact exercises.

Exercises like dead bugs help lengthen and strengthen the hip flexors in a controlled position, which improves form and can help offset the effects of sitting too much, adds Dickinson. Lie faceup, ...

Enter the single-arm high pull: a smarter, more athletic alternative that builds bigger shoulders, thicker traps and even manages to hit your upper back along the way – all without locking you into a ...

Matt Parrott is taking this week off. This column originally appeared in the Dec. 4, 2012, issue of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. There is no video demonstration this week. Most adults over the age ...