Technique
- Stand tall with a Dumbbell or Kettlebell in one hand, keeping your core engaged and posture upright.
- Grip the weight firmly, ensuring your wrist is straight and in line with your forearm.
- Keep your shoulder down and back, avoiding any excessive leaning to the side.
- Walk for a set time, maintaining control of the weight throughout.
Form tips
- Keep your torso upright and avoid leaning to one side to counterbalance the weight.
- Engage your core to prevent your lower back from arching or overextending.
- Take controlled, deliberate steps, focusing on stability with each step to avoid wobbling.
Logging: Weight used on one side. Work each side for the time indicated.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Neck
Secondary
- Back
- Shoulders
- Quadriceps
- Pelvis
- Glutes
- Hamstrings
- Forearms
- Obliques
- Spine
- Hip adductors
- Abs
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Upper trapezius
- Levator scapulae
- Rectus femoris
- Vastus medialis
- Vastus intermedius
- Vastus lateralis
- Gluteus maximus
- Semitendinosus
- Semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris (long)
- Flexor digitorum superficialis
- Flexor digitorum profondus
- Flexor pollicis longus
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
- Quadratus lumborum
- Spinalis thoracis
- Longissimus thoracis
- Iliocostalis
Equipment
Appears in
Cardio
Other disciplines
Joint movements
Variations
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Beginner
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