Overhead Dumbbell Shrug
Overhead Dumbbell Shrug is one of the best exercises for toning your upper back muscles, building big traps, and improving your posture.
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Overhead Dumbbell Shrug is one of the best exercises for toning your upper back muscles, building big traps, and improving your posture.
Overhead Dumbbell Split Squat strengthens your core, shoulders, and lower body. Using dumbbells improves balance due to the instability of the weights and places less strain on the shoulder joint.
Overhead Dumbbell Squat activates muscles in your upper body and muscles in your lower body—including your hamstrings, adductors, quadriceps, and lower back muscles.
Overhead Dumbbell Triceps Extension focuses specifically on the long head of the triceps, activating your core, glutes, and lower back muscles.
Over-Under Shoulder Stretch strengthens the various upper body muscles in the arms (biceps and triceps), chest muscles, shoulders muscles, and back muscles.
Plank with Feet on Swiss Ball is a core strengthening exercise that targets the entire abdominal region. Performing the movement with the Swiss ball will improve lower back and hip stability.
Plate Raises are excellent for building strength in the shoulder region. They develop stronger traps, and they can even increase your core strength.
Pushup And Row emphasize a couple of upper body muscles, including the triceps, chest, and back. It also increases the shoulders' stability.
Pushup Plus effectively engages your serratus anterior – the vital muscle that helps move your shoulder blades.
Pushup With Feet On Swiss Ball build upper body strength and core strength and improve cardio. When you do pushups in this position by using a Swiss ball, you work more of your upper pectoral muscles and front shoulders.
Pushup with One Hand on Medicine Ball is a great workout that targets your shoulder, triceps, and chest. By isolating one arm at a time, the exercise increases balance and creates stability and symmetry throughout the entire shoulder.
Reach, Roll And Lift increases activation of the lower trapezius, rotator cuff, and latissimus dorsi to aid in better shoulder stabilization in overhead positions.