Dumbbell Pullovers At Home

Do you think you need a bench to do dumbbell pullovers at home? Wrong!

Dumbbell Pullovers: Great For Lats And Chest

Dumbbell pullovers are a great exercise that combines lats and chest work, making it a good addition to full body workouts and chest or back day when you do splits.

You don’t see dumbbell pullovers done that often anymore and I wonder why not.

They not only do a good bit of work on the lats and chest, they also involve portions of the shoulder and a bit of triceps and neck. Even better is that all you need to do them at home is a dumbbell:

When To Use Dumbbell Pullovers?

The choice is yours: If you do full body workouts, do pullovers either after your chest or back exercises. If you do splits, they can go after the major compounds on both chest and back day. For example, on chest day I’d do them after bench presses, on back day after pull-ups. How I incorporate them into my workouts you can see in my intermediate workout plan right here.

Shoulder Trouble?

The first time I tried them they gave me pain in my shoulders, and Wolf had an important hint for me: it might be due to a weaker shoulder muscle. And he was right: after doing some isolations for my posterior delts and strengthening them, the pain went away.