FOR MOST GYM-GOERS, there's one word that serves as a shorthand for painful, difficult workouts that will likely leave them doubled-over and heaving to catch their breath: burpee. The burpee is one of ...

ONE WORD SERVES as a shorthand for punishment and pain for exercisers across gyms and many fitness disciplines. When a trainer says the word, you'll know that your workout will likely leave you ...

Working out is better when it's fast, equipment-free, and not super complicated. It's science. And, as it turns out, burpees are all of those things. They have plenty of haters, but this exercise is ...

Shawn Arent, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at Rutgers University and a fellow at the American College of Sports Medicine, demonstrates the proper form for the burpee.

Put simply, compound exercises are moves that recruit large muscle groups and use multiple joints. "You're activating several muscles or muscle groups at one time," Brooke Taylor, NASM- and ...

From squat form to barbell row form, there are so many things to keep in mind when doing strength training exercises (and a whole bunch of conflicting advice) that it’s easy to fall foul and go a ...