Or make it easier by bending your knees and planting your heels into the floor.
Dumbbell lat pullover on floor.
But we don t always follow the crowd and we believe this movement absolutely has its place in a workout routine.
Dumbbell floor straight arm pullover is a effective exercise to target your latissimus dorsi muscle lats.
The lat pulldown is a cousin of pullups and chinups and it definitely seems similar.
The dumbbell pullover can in fact help to improve shoulder mobility in that it places a stretch upon the lats and triceps.
Hold one dumbbell in each hand and bring them to your chest as you lie back on a mat.
Straight arm dumbbell floor pullovers.
From your back bring the soles of your feet to the floor knees pointing up.
The pullover exercise is very good for your upper body strength.
The dumbbell pullover sure isn t the most common exercise used to build a big chest and lats.
Two muscle groups often responsible for impeded shoulder mobility overhead.
Because of this golden era bodybuilders used to call pullovers the upper body squat as it worked so many muscles.
You can indeed utilize it to build muscle and strength so we re going to show you just how to do this with a guide on what you need to know about the dumbbell pullover.
Note that i will demonstrate proper dumbbell pullover technique to avoid injury and increase the effectiveness of this exercise.
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.
This is one of the active level strength exercises in exercise for better bones.
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.