Push Press (Dumbbell)
Trains the front delts, with help from the triceps and quadriceps. 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.
Technique
How to do the Push Press (Dumbbell)
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, holding a dumbbell in each hand at shoulder height, palms facing each other. Keep your elbows close to your body.
- Slightly bend your knees and lower your body into a quarter squat, then explosively extend your legs and perform a light jump to drive the dumbbells upward.
- Press the dumbbells overhead by extending your arms fully, locking out your elbows at the top of the movement.
- Lower the dumbbells back to shoulder height in a controlled manner and repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Use the power generated from your legs and the light jump to help drive the dumbbells overhead.
- Use a weight that allows you to perform the exercise with proper form.
- Maintain a slight bend in your knees to absorb the impact of the weights.
Muscles worked
What Push Press (Dumbbell) trains
In the programs
None of our programs use the Push Press (Dumbbell)
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 front delts exercise that is, there are 26 on the Front Delts page.
Substitutes
Swap Push Press (Dumbbell) for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run the Push Press (Dumbbell) 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.