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DB pullover
Back · Dumbbells
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps4 to 8
RIR1 to 3
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.
Enter a set to see the estimate.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Hantel pullover
- Swedish Hantelpullover
- Danish Håndvægt pullover
- German Überzüge (Kurzhantel)
- Spanish Pullover con mancuerna
- Italian Pullover con manubrio
- Portuguese Pullover com halteres (dorsal)
- Russian Пуловер с гантелью
- French Pullover haltère (dorsaux)
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