Travel Exercise: Dumbbell Thrusters

 

If you have access to any hotel weight room that has dumbbells (most do). This is wonderful and efficient movement recruiting both lower and upper body strength. I love to do these in gyms with limited equipment while on vacation.

How to do it:

Bring dumbbells up to rest on your shoulders

Widen feet into squat stance –shoulder width apart

Squat by sending hips back first then bending knees out to the side (not tracking forward over toe), hips should break below the height of the knee

Coming out of the bottom of the squat, drive through the mid-foot to heel

Squeeze your glutes hard as you rise

Use the drive to do most of the work for you bumping dumbbells off shoulders

Complete the movement by pressing the weight overhead until elbows are locked out

 

Breathing:

Inhale as you descend to the bottom of your squat

Exhale as you press out the weight at the top