Weighted Step-Up

Start

Finish

How to do it

Step onto a knee-height box, drive through the heel, and lower under control rather than dropping.

Muscles worked

Primary: quads · Also works: glutes

Equipment

Dumbbells, No equipment

Common mistakes

• Pushing off the trailing leg
• Box too high

Variations

• Lateral step-up

Can't do this one? Swap it for

• Walking Lunge
• Bulgarian Split Squat

Related exercises

• Barbell Back Squatquads
• Goblet Squatquads
• Bodyweight Squatquads
• Leg Pressquads
• Bulgarian Split Squatquads
• Walking Lungequads