{"id":13644,"date":"2019-11-30T08:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T08:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/?p=13644"},"modified":"2019-11-30T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T08:18:29","slug":"dumbbell-w-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/dumbbell-w-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbbell w-press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>Exercise details<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Target muscle:<\/strong> Anterior Deltoid<\/li>\n<li><strong>Synergists:<\/strong> Lateral Deltoid, Clavicular (Upper) Pectoralis Major, Supraspinatus, Serratus Anterior, Middle and Lower Trapezius<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mechanics:<\/strong> Isolation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Force:<\/strong> Push<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Starting position<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>With a dumbbell in each hand, stand with your arms in a \u2018W\u2019 position.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Execution<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Keeping your elbows fixed, exhale as you raise the dumbbells in a circular motion until they nearly touch each other over your head.<\/li>\n<li>Inhale as you return the dumbbells to the starting position.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat for the prescribed number of repetitions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Comments and tips<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep your elbows locked. They must neither flex nor extend.<\/li>\n<li>The dumbbell w-press is quite a rare exercise but very effective at overloading the anterior and lateral deltoids. Because the elbows are kept fixed, there is no involvement of the triceps brachii.<\/li>\n<li>If experienced and struggling to get more growth in your shoulders, you can use the dumbbell w-press to pre-exhaust your shoulders before hitting them with the <a href=\"https:\/\/weighttraining.guide\/exercises\/seated-dumbbell-overhead-press\/\">dumbbell<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/weighttraining.guide\/exercises\/barbell-overhead-press\/\">barbell overhead press<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Do not confuse the dumbbell w-press with the <a href=\"https:\/\/weighttraining.guide\/exercises\/arnold-press\/\">dumbbell Arnold press<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise details Target muscle: Anterior Deltoid Synergists: Lateral Deltoid, Clavicular (Upper) Pectoralis Major, Supraspinatus, Serratus Anterior, Middle and Lower Trapezius Mechanics: Isolation Force: Push Starting position With a dumbbell in each hand, stand with your arms in a \u2018W\u2019 position. Execution Keeping your elbows fixed, exhale as you raise the dumbbells in a circular motion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,759,732],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-askisiologio","category-proponisi-dynamis","category-askiseis-gia-omous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13646,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions\/13646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newlife.com.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}