Fun fact: The shoulder joint is the most flexible joint in the body because of its ball-and-socket structure, which allows for a wide range of movements. Shoulder mobility exercises and stretches can ...

The deltoids are the muscles that cover the front, back and side of the shoulder joint — and they are essential for everyday movements like raising your arms, lifting a child or carrying groceries.

Upper body workouts can often go heavy on the biceps and triceps, but you don't want to shrug off shoulder exercises. Trainers say that a good deltoid muscle workout does more than help you (literally ...

The shoulder is a marvel of human anatomy that allows you to have a wide range of motion. The ball and socket joint is highly vulnerable to injury as the versatile shoulder gets exposed to wear and ...

Heeding the advice to stay home may be a good way to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but it can put a damper on your usual fitness routine. The good news is that there are many ways to re-create ...

Just like your last relationship, the shoulder is super complex. The shoulder capsule, a tough fibrous sleeve, helps to hold the ball-and-socket joint together. An inner layer, called the synovium, ...

Shoulder tightness can slowly creep up with age, affecting your ability to get adequate sleep, lift grocery bags, scrub the bathtub, or push open heavy doors. Maintaining shoulder mobility usually ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. We’re going to start ...

How to use this list: Perform each exercise below for 30 seconds to 1 minute per side, resting minimally between exercises. Do each exercise in the circuit on one side of the body, then repeat on the ...

Leg day, arm day, ab day—but what about lat day? Lats are the largest muscles in your upper body and the core of any workout routine. Most people use the term lats, but the scientific name for the lat ...

For as long as there have been gyms, men have walked in and kicked things off with some sort of a bicep curl. We get the appeal of arm workouts: Figuring out what weights to lift is hard, and nothing ...