Dumbbell Step Ups

QuadsDumbbellIntermediateCompound
Dumbbell Step Ups — start position
Start
Dumbbell Step Ups — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryQuads
SecondaryCalves, Glutes, Hamstrings

How to do it

  1. 01

    Stand up straight while holding a dumbbell on each hand (palms facing the side of your legs).

  2. 02

    Place the right foot on the elevated platform. Step on the platform by extending the hip and the knee of your right leg. Use the heel mainly to lift the rest of your body up and place the foot of the left leg on the platform as well. Breathe out as you execute the force required to come up.

  3. 03

    Step down with the left leg by flexing the hip and knee of the right leg as you inhale. Return to the original standing position by placing the right foot of to next to the left foot on the initial position.

  4. 04

    Repeat with the right leg for the recommended amount of repetitions and then perform with the left leg.

In the app

Dumbbell Step Ups appears when you own dumbbells and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have dumbbells

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With barbell
With bodyweight
With dumbbell

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