Dumbbell One-Arm Shoulder Press

Shoulders · Dumbbell

How to do it

Seated with a backrest or standing, a single dumbbell at shoulder height with the palm forward and the other hand free. Brace abs and glutes before pressing: with weight on one side, the torso wants to lean the other way and your core is what stops it. Press to a locked elbow beside your ear and lower to chin height. One-armed you can take the dumbbell slightly lower than with two. The classic mistake is leaning away to get leverage; if the opposite shoulder rises, drop the weight.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Triceps

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