Building your upper-body strength not only improves muscle tone, but it can actually make day-to-day life that much easier (think carrying your groceries all in one trip), and an incline dumbbell press targets several areas of the upper body and core. How-to: “Strong shoulders help facilitate the various overhead and rotational movements of the arms. A strong chest balances out the back muscles and helps us in pushing movements,” Arrington explains. Since this is a compound exercise, you’re not only hitting your shoulders as a traditional press would, but you’re also engaging your chest, back, and lats. It’s also easily scalable to any fitness level based on the volume of weight you’re pressing. How-to: How to: How-to: How-to:
