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Dumbbell pullover (chest)
Chest · 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: Chest.
Secondary: Lats, 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 (bryst)
- Swedish Hantelpullover (bröst)
- Danish Håndvægt pullover (bryst)
- German Überzüge (Kurzhantel, Brust)
- Spanish Pullover con mancuerna (pecho)
- Italian Pullover con manubrio (petto)
- Portuguese Pullover com halteres (peitoral)
- Russian Пуловер с гантелью на грудь
- French Pullover haltère (pectoraux)
Related chest exercises
- Bench press (barbell)
- Incline bench press (barbell)
- Decline bench press (barbell)
- Close-grip bench press (barbell)
- Landmine press
- Cable crossover
athlate logs this exercise, keeps the numbers, and tells you what you lifted last time.