When you’re starting out with lifting, there’s nothing particularly comfortable about trying the barbell bench press for the first time. Lying underneath a heavy bar – with no easy way to bail – ...

The bench press, star of chest day, has long stood as the de facto measure for a lifter’s strength. There are, of course, more holistic ways to measure physical strength—and if your goal is simply to ...

My name is Cori Ritchey, and I am an exercise physiology nerd turned fitness journalist, and the fitness editor at Women’s Health. When I’m not writing, editing, and researching fitness, I’m teaching ...