Standing Dumbbell Press
How to do the Standing Dumbbell Press with correct form, the muscles it works, and where it fits a training plan you actually stick to.
Shoulders
Triceps
Dumbbell
How to do the Standing Dumbbell Press
- 1
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.
- 2
Maintaining strict technique with no leg drive or leaning back, extend through the elbow to raise the weights together directly above your head.
- 3
Pause, and slowly return the weight to the starting position.
Log it, see it on your body.
Every Standing Dumbbell Press set you log feeds Ascend's anatomy heatmap — so your shoulders volume is visible at a glance — and counts toward your bodyweight-strength tier.
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