Whether you have no equipment or just a set of dumbbells, you can strengthen your upper body with these 44 effective exercises. Choose a few of these moves to create your own upper-body workout, or combine them with leg exercises and core moves for a full-body strength-training workout. As a bonus, some of these moves work your abs and lower body — have fun getting strong!
Use sliders or two hand towels on smooth surfaces, or paper plates on carpet. If you don't have enough space to walk your plank, just do plank ups with sliders. If you don't have sliders, towels, or paper plates, just do mountain climbers.
Lunges are definitely a lower-body exercise, but holding a weight overhead turns this into an arm workout.