DB pullover

Sets, reps and RIR

A heavy multi-joint lift with free weights. Keep a rep or two in reserve on most sets so technique holds.

RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.

Muscles worked

Primary: Lats.

Secondary: Chest, Triceps.

Estimate your one-rep max

Epley's formula, from a set you have actually done. It is an estimate, and it drifts above eight reps, so keep the input between one and twelve.

What it is called elsewhere

• Norsk Hantel pullover
• Svenska Hantelpullover
• Dansk Håndvægt pullover
• Deutsch Überzüge (Kurzhantel)
• Español Pullover con mancuerna
• Italiano Pullover con manubrio
• Português Pullover com halteres (dorsal)
• Русский Пуловер с гантелью
• Français Pullover haltère (dorsaux)

Related back exercises

• Deadlift (barbell)
• Romanian deadlift (barbell)
• Barbell row
• Pendlay row
• T-bar row
• Shrugs (barbell)

athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.