Around The World
Trains the chest, with help from the upper back and shoulders. You need a dumbbell. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
In the programs
None of our programs use the Around The World
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a chest exercise that is, there are 14 on the Chest page.
Muscles worked
What Around The World trains
Technique
How to do the Around The World
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, holding a dumbbell in each hand with your arms hanging by your sides and palms facing forward.
- Slowly raise both dumbbells outward to the sides, keeping your arms straight, until they reach shoulder height.
- Continue lifting the dumbbells in a circular motion above your head until they meet at the top with your arms fully extended.
- Reverse the motion, lowering the dumbbells back down in the same circular path until they are by your sides again. Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Exhale as you lift the dumbbells and inhale as you lower them.
- Use a controlled motion to prevent using momentum to lift the weights.
- Maintain a slight bend in your elbows to reduce stress on your joints.
Substitutes
Swap Around The World for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run the Around The World for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.