Want to test your upper-body strength? Here's how many pull-ups you should be able to do—and the best exercises to improve.

Push-ups work your chest, abdominals, shoulders, and triceps. Start by hanging from a horizontal bar with your arms shoulder-width apart and your palms facing outward. For step one, pull yourself ...

Imagine hanging from a pull up bar and feeling everything ... glutes for stability and additional strength work. The aim is to relax into your shoulders and keep your ribcage down and tailbone ...

What Muscles Do Pull-Ups Work? The short answer—nearly of them. Pull-ups work the lats, pecs, shoulders, biceps, triceps, and forearms as well as chest-down muscles like the core, glutes ...

Your shoulders should also be in a better position ... first using a combination of movements that mimic the pull-up and work the same muscle groups. Would you believe the hack is this simple ...

Advanced: Eventually try building up to this 3-minute routine. Pull-ups. Place hands slightly wider than shoulder width on a pull-up bar, palms facing forward. Pull your chin up to the height of ...

The pull-up is a compound exercise that works multiple muscles and joints ... grip strength or shoulder mobility, but these can all be overcome with targeted and progressive training.