How to Do the Standing Dumbbell Press
💪 Shoulders, Triceps🏋️ Dumbbell📊 Beginner🏷️ Strength
How to perform it
- Standing with your feet shoulder width apart, take a dumbbell in each hand. Raise the dumbbells to head height, the elbows out and about 90 degrees. This will be your starting position.
- Maintaining strict technique with no leg drive or leaning back, extend through the elbow to raise the weights together directly above your head.
- Pause, and slowly return the weight to the starting position.
Muscles worked
The Standing Dumbbell Press primarily targets your Shoulders, with support from your Triceps. You'll need dumbbell.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Standing Dumbbell Press slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.