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.
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.
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.
This is one of the active level strength exercises in exercise for better bones.
Straight arm dumbbell floor pullovers.
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.
The dumbbell pullover sure isn t the most common exercise used to build a big chest and lats.
Or make it easier by bending your knees and planting your heels into the floor.
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.
The pullover exercise is very good for your upper body strength.
Doing multiple but different exercises on the same area of your body in the same day exhausts the muscle fibers of that area and leads to faster toning and strength increases.
Two muscle groups often responsible for impeded shoulder mobility overhead.
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.
But we don t always follow the crowd and we believe this movement absolutely has its place in a workout routine.