BODYWEIGHT BACK TRAINING is never easy. The gold standard movement is the pullup—which can be devilishly hard to do for even seasoned gym-goers—and there are sparingly few other exercises that hit ...

Trainer, author, and fitness model Kirk Charles, NASM-CPT CES, knows that as you get older, life can get more complicated. But that shouldn’t prevent you from being on top of your game. He’ll help to ...

Set up a bar in the squat rack and grab it with an underhand grip, hands shoulder-width apart. Pull your body up until your chest almost touchest the bar, keeping your body straignt from neck to ...

Using a bar that is adjusted to the height of your hips, take a shoulder-width overhand grip and slowly walk your legs under the bar until you are hanging at a 30- to 45-degree angle from the floor ...

a) Lie on the floor under a bar. b) Grab it with an underhand grip. Tense your abs and pull yourself up keeping your body straight until your chest touches the bar, then lower. Tip: Imagine trying to ...