If you thought you could skip leg day just because you don’t have a barbell or gym machines, I bring bad news.
Yes, you can do more with dumbbells than biceps curls.
The problem isn’t the tool; it’s the know-how.
These 10 dumbbell leg exercises are more than capable of building some serious wheels.
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Easy Leg Muscle Anatomy and Function
Alright, let’s talk legs! They used to be my favorite body part to train, before I got old and lazy. Because if you train legs hard, you know you’re alive. At the same time, that’s the only way to get real results.
So, if you use your legs for more than walking to the fridge, you want to know what’s going on down there. Your leg muscles are, after all, the foundation for almost every powerful thing you do, from jumping to lifting heavy stuff off the floor.
Let’s take a quick look at the anatomy and function of your lower-body muscles. Don’t worry; it’s the easy version. You won’t mistake it for a textbook in med class.
Or would you rather get straight to the dumbbell leg exercises?
Glutes
Yes, we’re starting with the butt. Why? Because the gluteal muscles are the engine of your lower body. In fact, you could argue that they are the central power hub of your entire body. If it’s weak, you’re not getting much athleticism done.
The glutes are a group of three muscles in your buttocks: the gluteus maximus (the big one you sit on), the gluteus medius, and the smaller gluteus minimus to the side.
The primary job of your butt muscles is hip extension. That’s when you push your hips forward, like standing up from a squat, jumping, or sprinting. They also dabble in hip abduction (moving your leg out to the side), and this job mostly falls to the glute medius and minimus. In addition, they stabilize your pelvis so you don’t waddle like a penguin.
Quadriceps
The quadriceps are the big muscles on the front of your thigh. They’re called quads because there are four of them:
- Rectus femoris: The only one of the four that crosses both the hip and knee joints.
- Vastus lateralis: The outer sweep of your quads.
- Vastus medialis: The muscle above and inside your knee that looks like a teardrop.
- Vastus intermedius: You can’t see this guy because it hides underneath the rectus femoris.
The quads’ main job is knee extension, which simply means straightening your leg. When you do leg extensions, kick a ball, or huff and puff your way up a flight of stairs, that’s knee extension in action. Also, because the rectus femoris crosses the hip, it helps a bit with hip flexion (lifting your knee up toward your chest).
Hamstrings
On the back of your thigh, you find the hamstrings, direct opponents (antagonists) to your quads. They consist of three muscles:
- Biceps femoris (on the outside)
- Semitendinosus (in the middle)
- Semimembranosus (on the inside)
What do they do? They have two primary and very different jobs. The first is knee flexion: bending your knee and pulling your heel toward your butt. That’s what you train in a leg curl machine. They also work with your glutes as hip extensors and help pull your leg backward.
In addition, they function as brakes when you run and control your lower leg as it flies forward.
Adductors
The adductors are your inner thigh muscles. They are often forgotten (most lifters have quads and hamstrings, even calves, in their workouts, but adductors?), but very important for stability. Fortunately, they automatically include themselves in many regular lower-body exercises.
They include the adductor magnus, adductor longus, adductor brevis, gracilis, and pectineus.
As for what they do, their name gives it away: they adduct your thighs, which means they pull your legs together toward the midline of your body. They spring into action in side-to-side movements in sports (tennis and basketball are two prime examples) and give you stability when you do squats and lunges.
Some adductors, like the adductor magnus and pectineus, also help with hip extension or flexion depending on the movement.
Calves
The calves, the muscles on the back of your lower leg, are famously stubborn to grow, but they work all the time. And that’s probably a big part of why they are stubborn; they can already handle almost everything you throw at them.
They consist of two muscles:
- The gastrocnemius is the bigger, diamond- or heart-shaped muscle you can see. It crosses both the knee and the ankle.
- The soleus is a wider and flatter muscle that lies underneath the gastrocnemius and looks a bit like a flounder (it actually gets its name from the Latin word for solefish). It only crosses the ankle.
Together, they are called the triceps surae. So you actually have triceps on your lower legs, too, not just on your arms.
Both calf muscles plantarflex your foot, pointing your toes downward, like when you stand up on your tiptoes, jump, or do calf raises.
In addition, you also have a muscle at the front of your lower leg called the tibialis anterior. If you’ve ever gotten shin splints, you’ve felt this guy. It’s responsible for dorsiflexion, pulling your toes up toward your shin, and helps control your foot when it lands.
The 10 Best Dumbbell Leg Exercises
Now you know what your leg muscles do. So let’s do it.
These are 10 of the best dumbbell leg exercises for your entire lower body, from the glutes at the top to the calves down below.
After that, I’ll show you how to combine the exercises into complete and effective leg workouts for any experience level.
Here we go, in alphabetical order:
1. Dumbbell Bulgarian Split Squat
The dumbbell Bulgarian split squat is a super-effective exercise for large parts of your lower body, the glutes, quads, and adductors in particular.
We all have a weaker side, that one leg that’s just not pulling its weight. The split squat is a unilateral exercise (meaning one-sided), so it forces your weaker leg to get its act together.
For athletes, the single-leg strength you get from Bulgarians transfers to sprinting, jumping, and pretty much anything athletic. For bodybuilders, the loaded stretch is chef’s kiss for hypertrophy. And for powerlifters, it builds stability that carries over to squats and deadlifts.
Sit on the edge of a gym bench and extend one leg straight out in front of you. Where your heel lands is right about where you should plant your front foot. Stand up from there. If you find yourself on the toes of your front foot, you’re too close to the bench. Your back leg is just there for balance.
Pro Tip: You can customize your Bulgarian split squats. Want to hammer your quads? Keep your torso more upright. Want to build bigger glutes? Lean your torso forward slightly and try to sit back into the rep. Note slightly. Leaning forward for a glute bias is one thing; folding in half like you’re bowing to the dumbbell rack is another.
How to Do Dumbbell Bulgarian Split Squats
- Stand with your back turned to a bench, which should be at about knee height. Stand about one long step in front of the bench and hold a pair of dumbbells in your hands.
- Place one foot on the bench behind you.
- Inhale, look forward, and squat down with control until right before the knee of the back leg touches the floor.
- Reverse the movement and extend your front leg again, while exhaling.
- Inhale at the top, and repeat for reps.
2. Dumbbell Calf Raise
Down to the calves we go with the dumbbell calf raise, one of the simplest exercises possible, just up and down on the balls of your feet, but one that will make your calves light up like they’ve been plugged into an electrical socket.
Most lifters train their calves like an afterthought, tacking on a few bouncy, half-hearted reps at the end of leg day. And then they wonder why they can’t get them to grow. Yes, the calves are stubborn, and there is something to the saying that you’re born with good calves. That doesn’t mean you can do nothing with them. But you have to treat them like any other muscle group and train them hard, heavy, and consistently.
The best way to get bigger calves is to do calf raises with straight legs and to focus on the stretched position.1 That’s why dumbbell calf raises take care of all your calf-training needs, if you do them correctly.
I strongly suggest you do them one calf at a time and hold only one dumbbell. That way, you can use your other hand to keep your balance. You can do two dumbbells and both calves if you want, but that turns it into a stability and balance challenge, and in general, less stability means less potential for growth.
The bottom half of the movement is the most important part of the exercise. This is also where a lot of people throw away their gains, either not going all the way down or bouncing their way out of the hole. Instead, take your time during the descent and pause in the fully stretched position for at least a second.
Pro Tip: When you can’t do more full reps, you can continue doing partials. Partials in the bottom half, that is. It’s a very effective method to trigger calf growth.2
How to Do Dumbbell Calf Raises
- Stand with the front of one foot on an elevated surface (like a step), letting your heel hang off so it can drop below parallel.
- Hold a dumbbell in the hand on the same side as the working leg. Use your other hand to hold on to a wall, rack, or bench for balance.
- Lift your non-working foot off the surface.
- Raise your heel as high as possible, squeezing your calf at the top.
- Lower your heel under control until you feel a good stretch in the bottom and pause for a second or two.
- Repeat for reps, then switch legs.
3. Dumbbell Frog Pump
The dumbbell frog pump is an isolation exercise for the glutes (maximus, medius, and minimus, the whole family); quite similar to the glute bridge. The big difference is in your leg position: you lie on your back, press the soles of your feet together, and let your knees splay out wide, just like a frog.
If you’ve ever seen someone doing frog pumps, you probably thought, “Well, that looks… interesting.” And you’d be right. But the fact that it looks pretty goofy doesn’t make it any less effective.
I’m not talking about building maximum strength, though. You can’t really load a frog pump with hundreds of pounds like you can a hip thrust. You’ll eventually max out the heaviest dumbbell in the gym, and balancing a barbell in that position is a circus act. Also, getting strong in that short, externally-rotated position doesn’t have a massive carryover to your full-depth squat or your deadlift off the floor.
However, it’s a fantastic activation drill and is especially useful if you’re having trouble feeling your glutes fire properly in other exercises, in anything from hip thrusts to squats and deadlifts.
Pro Tip: Try adding a mini band around your knees and resist the pull to fire up your glute medius even more.
How to Do Dumbbell Frog Pumps
- Lie on your back and bring the soles of your feet together into a frog position; try to bring your feet as close to your butt as possible. Place a dumbbell on your hips.
- Before starting the movement, make sure to keep your core activated and your lower back and shoulders pressed down on the floor.
- Press your feet down into the floor and squeeze your glutes to thrust your hips upwards.
- Pause at the top and then reverse the movement. Make sure to do the entire movement slow and controlled.
4. Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift
The dumbbell Romanian deadlift — or RDL if we’re on nickname terms — is a hip hinge movement that builds the posterior chain, the line of muscles running from your lower back down to your calves. The hamstrings do most of the stretching and contracting, the glutes drive the lockout, and the lower back holds the whole system together.
The hip hinge is one of the most important human movement patterns. And the RDL is the hip hinge. If you learn how to push your hips back while keeping your spine straight, you have built yourself the foundation for squatting, jumping, and picking up heavy stuff in real life without wrecking your back.
In addition to being a great muscle-builder, the RDL can also help prevent hamstring injuries. Many studies have shown that eccentric hamstring training, like the Nordic hamstring exercise, can cut hamstring injuries in half, and a 2025 study demonstrated that RDLs have similar effects.3 4 That’s great news, because even though the Nordic hamstring curl is super effective, almost no one, not even high-level athletes, sticks to it.
Pro Tip: I see a ton of people making the mistake of letting the weight drift forward, pulling them onto their toes. When that happens, you lose your hamstrings, and all the stress goes straight into your lower back. Root your feet to the floor and keep the pressure back to force your hips to do their job and hinge backward.
How to Do Dumbbell Romanian Deadlifts
- Stand upright, holding a pair of dumbbells.
- Inhale, brace your core slightly, and lean forward by hinging in your hips. Keep your knees almost completely extended.
- Lean forward as far as possible without rounding your back. You don’t have to touch the dumbbells to the floor, although it is OK if you do.
- Reverse the movement and return to the starting position. Exhale on the way up.
- Take another breath, and repeat for reps.
5. Dumbbell Squat
The squat probably needs no introduction. It’s the number one exercise for improving athletic performance, and a staple for building bigger and stronger legs.
If you don’t have a barbell, you can still squat to your heart’s content. The dumbbell squat is an excellent alternative. Plus, it’s safer to do alone. If you fail a rep, you just drop the dumbbells. No barbell pinning you to the floor.
You can hold the dumbbells in different ways to change the exercise:
- The classic “dumbbells-at-your-sides” version is much like the traditional barbell squat in mechanics and muscle activation: quads, glutes, adductors, and lower back.
- You can also clean them up so you’re resting one end of each dumbbell on your shoulders. This style requires a more upright torso and shifts some of the load away from your glutes and onto your quads and core.
The potential downside compared to barbell squats? You’re limited by your arms. Just getting into position with a pair of 120-pound dumbbells is half a workout in itself. And the barbell will always be the most biomechanically efficient way to move a metric ton of weight with your legs and hips. So no, dumbbell squats can’t really equal barbell squats for maximal, top-end strength.
That being said, dumbbell squats work very well for hypertrophy in the 6–15 rep range. Don’t think of them as worse but different.
Pro Tip: Don’t hesitate to use lifting straps. If you want to train your legs and glutes, why would you let your forearms decide when the set is over? Train your grip separately if you need it. Win-win.
How to Do Dumbbell Squats
- Hold a dumbbell in each hand, and stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart. You can hold the dumbbells down at your sides, or keep them on your shoulders.
- Inhale, lightly brace your core, and squat down as deep as possible.
- Reverse the movement and return to a standing position. Exhale on the way up.
- Repeat for reps.
6. Dumbbell Walking Lunge
The dumbbell walking lunge: the gym predator that sneaks up on you mid-set, turns your legs into Jell-O, and leaves your glutes sore for days. You’re combining a lunge with forward movement, working most of your lower body, especially your glutes, quads, and adductors. Plus, your hamstrings and core for stability.
More than building muscle and strength, walking lunges also improve balance, proprioception (that’s your sense of where you are in space), and coordination. They’re even a great exercise for flexibility, especially in your hip flexors and ankles, because you get down into a dynamic, loaded stretch with each step.
Pro Tip: You can steer the focus of the lunge more or less toward your quads or glutes. Take a shorter step and keep your torso upright like a flagpole to drive more of the force into the front of your thigh. Conversely, take a bit longer step and lean forward slightly to force your glutes to work harder to pull you back up.
How to Do Dumbbell Walking Lunges
- Stand with your feet about hip-width apart and hold a dumbbell in each hand with your arms hanging at your sides. Your palms should be facing your body.
- Take a controlled step forward with one leg; a long, deliberate stride.
- As your front foot hits the floor, lower your hips until both of your knees are bent at a roughly 90-degree angle.
- Push off with the heel of your front foot and bring your back foot forward to meet it.
- Step forward with your other leg and repeat the lunge. Keep this walking motion going for the desired number of reps or distance.
7. Goblet Squat
The goblet squat is a one-dumbbell (or one-kettlebell) exercise for the quads, glutes, adductors, and core that improves mobility, teaches squat technique, and builds muscle while it’s at it.
Strength and conditioning coach Dan John invented it when he had to teach hundreds of athletes how to squat and couldn’t get them to do it.5 Out of necessity, he had a eureka moment, grabbed a kettlebell, held it in front of his chest like a goblet, squatted, and that was it. He had, almost by accident, created the perfect teaching tool for the squat.
Because the goblet squat is self-correcting: if you lean too far forward, you’ll drop the weight. If your core or upper back doesn’t stay in position, you’ll fold over. It kind of forces you to use good form, which means the right muscles are doing the work.
Turns out the goblet squat was also pretty darn good at building muscle. When the right muscles do almost all the work, they grow.
However, it’s not ideal for building maximal leg strength. Will it make you stronger? 100%. Will it get you a 400-pound squat? No. Good luck cradling that iron baby in front of your torso. Sooner or later, the limiting factor stops being your legs and starts being your upper body’s ability to hold the weight. Or you’ve maxed out the dumbbell rack.
When that happens, and you want to stick with dumbbells, the natural next step is to clean two 60-pound dumbbells (or kettlebells) into a rack position on your forearms and shoulders instead of holding one 80-pound dumbbell. Now you’re squatting 120 pounds, with your arms in a stronger position to hold the load (see the dumbbell squat above).
In short, the goblet squat is perfect up until the point where you’re too strong for it. Which is a pretty good problem to have. Until then, you have a great tool for building your legs and glutes, and to improve your squat mechanics.
Pro Tip: Push your knees out like you mean it. As you squat down, actively push your knees out to track over your toes. You’ll automatically open up your hips and make it impossible to round your back.
How to Do Goblet Squats
- Grab a dumbbell or kettlebell and hold it against your chest.
- Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart, and your toes pointing slightly outward.
- Inhale, lightly brace your core, and squat down as deep as possible.
- Reverse the movement and return to the starting position. Exhale on the way up.
8. Reverse Dumbbell Lunge
More lunges? You bet. Lunges come in many different shapes, but the reverse dumbbell lunge is the one I often recommend to beginners.
It gives you a tad more stability than forward lunges, so it’s easier to balance and use the right muscles instead of focusing on not falling over. I’ve found that a lot of people also feel it’s a bit easier on the knees than stepping forward. It’s also more glute-focused and easier to balance than regular forward lunges. All in all: the perfect middle ground between a squat and a split squat.
Reverse lunges involve most of your lower body, with the glutes and quads doing the brunt of the work. Your hamstrings and adductors stabilize your knee and keep your leg tracking straight. In addition, your entire core has to lock down to keep you from crumbling like a cheap suit.
The backward step creates a long range of motion for your glutes and quads, and that stretch under load is prime muscle-building territory.
Pro Tip: Here’s the single most important tip to feel your glutes. As you step back and drop, your torso should have a slight forward lean (maybe 10–20 degrees). You load your hip and glute, and force your front leg to do most of the work. Staying too upright shifts your center of gravity too far back, and you end up pushing off your back leg.
How to Do Reverse Dumbbell Lunges
- Hold a dumbbell in each hand and stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart.
- Take a big step backward and sink as deep as possible in a lunge position, without hitting the knee of the back leg on the floor.
- Return to the starting position by pushing yourself back with the front leg.
- Repeat for reps.
9. Step-Up
If you walk past the plyo boxes to get to the squat rack or leg press, you’re missing out on one of the best glute exercises there is: the dumbbell step-up. Research has shown that it activates your glutes exceptionally well, more so than staple butt-builders like the squat and hip thrust.6
Step-ups are more than a glute exercise, though. They work pretty much your entire lower body, including the quads, hamstrings, adductors, and calves.
Unlike bilateral exercises (those squats or leg presses, for example), the step-up forces one leg to handle your entire body weight (plus the dumbbells). That means you can train your legs hard with a squat-type movement even if you have a back that doesn’t appreciate heavy regular squats.
And if you care about performance, that one-leg-at-a-time action is exactly how humans move in the real world and in most sports, so expect transfer to other athletic things you do outside of the gym.
How to Do Dumbbell Step-Ups
- Stand in front of a chair, bench, or something else that you can step up on, holding a dumbbell in each hand.
- Place your foot on the chair.
- Lightly brace your core, and step up until your leg is straight.
- Lower yourself in a controlled motion.
- You can keep your foot on the chair, and repeat the movement for the desired number of repetitions.
10. Thruster
Last on the list of the best dumbbell exercises (and not just because it’s an exercise everyone loves to hate) is the dumbbell thruster: the “I want a full-body beatdown in 30 seconds” special. It works equally well with kettlebells, too.
It’s not the king of pure leg size or maximal strength. It’s decent for both, but not great. But for leg conditioning and endurance? 10/10.
The dumbbell thruster is a squat combined with an overhead press. Now, you can always squat more than you can press. The limiting factor in a thruster is almost always your shoulders and triceps, not your legs. Your legs will be burning, don’t get me wrong, but your shoulders will reach failure before your quads or glutes.
So why do I include it in a list of the best dumbbell leg exercises? Because it’s arguably one of the most efficient exercises on the planet. In one rep, you’ve hit:
- Quads (from the squat)
- Glutes (from the squat and the hip thrust)
- Shoulders (from the press)
- Triceps (from the lockout)
- Your core (for maintaining stability)
And in one set, you’ve hit lungs and heart, too.
If your only goal is building the biggest, strongest legs possible, most of the dedicated exercises above will get you there faster.
But if you want explosive power, coordination, conditioning, and even cardio in one exercise, you’ll find it all in thrusters. They’ll get you in shape in minimum time.
Pro Tip: A thruster is not a squat and a press. The power comes from your hips, and if you pause at the top of your squat and then try to strict press the weight, you’ve missed the point and you’ll gas out in five reps.
How to Do Thrusters
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and hold two dumbbells or kettlebells in rack position.
- Lower into a squat until your thighs are approximately parallel to the ground.
- Drive explosively up from the bottom position by extending your hips and knees, and use the force from your legs to press the weight overhead in one fluid motion.
- Fully extend your arms at the top and lock out the weight overhead.
- Lower the weight back to your shoulders in a controlled manner and immediately transition into the next repetition.
The Best Dumbbell Leg Workouts for Muscle & Strength Gains
With the dumbbell leg exercises we’ve just covered, you can design a workout for any experience level and training goal.
But what if you don’t want to design your own?
Then follow one of ours!
For Beginners
If you are new to strength training, you might not need a separate leg day workout with 10 or more sets for each of your lower-body muscles.
Instead, I suggest you go with full-body workouts, training your entire body each session, two or three times per week.
Dumbbells work great with this approach. In fact, we have built a highly effective dumbbell workout you can follow directly in our workout app, StrengthLog. It targets all major muscle groups, and you can do it anywhere.
Home Dumbbell Workout for Beginners
| Exercise | Sets | Reps |
| Goblet Squat | 2 | 10 |
| Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift | 2 | 10 |
| Dumbbell Floor Press | 2 | 10 |
| Dumbbell Row | 2 | 10 |
| Dumbbell Shoulder Press | 2 | 10 |
| Dumbbell Curl | 1 | 10 |
| Dumbbell Triceps Extension | 1 | 10 |
You train your quads, glutes, adductors, and hamstrings with the goblet squats and the Romanian deadlifts. And that’s plenty, if you’re new to lifting. Do 10–12 reps per set, and go through this workout twice or thrice weekly for best results.
Get started with the Home Dumbbell Workout for Beginners, free in StrengthLog.
For Late Beginners / Early Intermediates
If you’ve been training a while and want to try your hand at splitting your body into different parts, the following workout is a great start.
You can train it as a stand-alone workout or with any other muscle or muscles of your choice. For example, I’ve had success with athletes splitting their bodies in two, training legs, back, and biceps on one day and their pushing muscles (chest, shoulders, and triceps) on another, then doing that twice per week.
Training legs and shoulders is another popular combination, as is working legs and a smaller muscle group like abs together.
All of them work fine as long as you enjoy them, feel good, and can recover properly.
Beginner Dumbbell Leg Workout
| Exercise | Sets | Reps |
| Goblet Squat | 3 | 10 |
| Reverse Dumbbell Lunge | 3 | 10 |
| Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift | 3 | 10 |
This workout also hits your quads, glutes, adductors, and hamstrings, but more intensely and directly than the full-body workout: perfect as the next step after your first beginner phase.
Open the Dumbbell Leg Workout for Beginners in StrengthLog and get started for free.
For Intermediates and Advanced
If you’re an intermediate-level (or above) lifter and looking for a dumbbell workout to build as much lower-body muscle mass and strength as possible, this one fits perfectly into almost any three-, four-, five-, or six-day split, including popular routines like Push/Pull/Legs (on Leg day, naturally).
It is a premium workout, meaning it requires a subscription to follow in StrengthLog, but you can activate a 14-day free trial to see if it’s for you.
Leg Workout With Dumbbells
You can see the exact set configuration and rep ranges in StrengthLog.
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Final Rep
This is the part where I stop talking and you (hopefully) start lifting.
Anyway, that’s the list. You’re now officially armed with enough dumbbell movements to torch your legs from every conceivable angle.
Pick your favorites, create your own dumbbell workouts, or follow one of ours. Remember to download our workout log to track your gains.
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Last reviewed: 2025-10-23
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