Dumbbell Squats
How to Do Dumbbell Squats
- With your feet shoulder-width apart, stand with dumbbells as your sides with your palms facing each other.
- Keeping your back straight and facing forward, squat down until your thighs are parallel to the floor.
- Pause for one second.
- Pushing up from your heels, raise back up to starting position and repeat.
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Related Quadriceps Exercises
Dumbbell Squats Exercise Details
Muscles worked
Dumbbell Squats targets quadriceps and also works calves and glutes & hip flexors and hamstrings and lower back. Use the illustration and step-by-step instructions above to learn the movement pattern and practice proper form.
Equipment needed
This is a gym exercise. Equipment required: dumbbells.
Similar exercises
Related exercises that work similar muscle groups include Front barbell squats, water bottle squat thrusters and lunging / lunge with bicep hammer curls. Browse our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises.
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