Dumbbell Pullovers

Teaching points

• Lay on your back on a bench with your feet on the floor
  
  
• Hold one dumbbell between both hands, with the palms facing each other and arms straight above your chest
  
  
• Lower the dumbbells over and behind your head, with a slight bend in the elbow
  
  
• Keep your abdominals braced throughout to avoid arching your back
  
  
• Lower to as far as you are comfortable and then reverse the movement

Muscles worked

• Pectoralis minor
  
  
• Latissimus dorsi