Dumbbell Lat Pullover On Floor

Dumbbell pullovers are a combined lat and chest exercise that also involves the long head of your triceps which is the muscle located on the back of your upper arm.

Dumbbell lat pullover on floor.

Two muscle groups often responsible for impeded shoulder mobility overhead. From your back bring the soles of your feet to the floor knees pointing up. The following are the instructions to complete the straight arm dumbbell floor pullovers exercise. Hold one dumbbell in each hand and bring them to your chest as you lie back on a mat.

The dumbbell pullover sure isn t the most common exercise used to build a big chest and lats. The dumbbell pullover can in fact help to improve shoulder mobility in that it places a stretch upon the lats and triceps. This is one of the active level strength exercises in exercise for better bones. But we don t always follow the crowd and we believe this movement absolutely has its place in a workout routine.

Because of this golden era bodybuilders used to call pullovers the upper body squat as it worked so many muscles. Perform lying dumbbell pullovers on the same day as other dumbbell chest exercises such as pec flys or the dumbbell bench press to get a well rounded chest workout. Dumbbell floor straight arm pullover is a effective exercise to target your latissimus dorsi muscle lats. Straight arm dumbbell floor pullovers.

Note that i will demonstrate proper dumbbell pullover technique to avoid injury and increase the effectiveness of this exercise. The pullover exercise is very good for your upper body strength. It also does work on your chest muscle as well but we are trying to target mainly here lats muscle through full range of motion. The lat pulldown is a cousin of pullups and chinups and it definitely seems similar.