You don’t need a pricey gym membership or a set of weights to start building upper-body strength - just your own body.

Building balanced strength and size requires a healthy arsenal of these moves. Here are a few of our favorites.

When you do a pullup, you engage your lats, mid-back, rear delts, biceps, forearms, and core. Pushups train your chest, ...

Lie on a bench set at a 45-degree angle, holding two dumbbells or a barbell above your head. Slowly lower both bells over a 3 ...

Hold a dumbbell in each hand and lie back on a flat bench, to start. Press the weights up from shoulder level until your arms ...

Dumbbell shrugs are an effective exercise to target the upper part of the trapezius muscles. To do this exercise, stand with ...

Complete upper body workout with dumbbells. If you don't have any, you can try without them. For more workouts and programs, ...

You’ll find chest-focused exercises sprinkled throughout the six-week program, particularly on day three workouts. Movements like push-ups, presses, and skull crushers often appear in supersets with ...

By including wide-grip push-ups in your regimen, you can improve muscle balance across different parts of your upper body, ...

Pull-ups are the king of upper-body pulling exercises. They hit your biceps, forearms, shoulders, and lats all at once—no ...

If you're looking to supersize your chest and mix up your regular pushing exercises, give these a try ... push-ups take it up a notch for a killer upper pec pump. The best part?