The bench press is a strength training exercise for your upper body. To do it, you'll need free weights or a barbell with weight plates. Although it looks like a simple move, you'll need to learn ...

Bench press is a classic exercise that is great for building the chest, triceps, and shoulders. As a personal trainer, I include it in nearly every client’s program, as well as my own. While I ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bench press is among the most popular exercises for the chest and triceps. Many variations in grip exist for the bench press, with different variations emphasizing slightly different muscles ...