Try negative-accentuated lateral raises in your next workout. Simply raise the dumbbells with bent arms and lower them slowly with your arms straight. Make sure to have a fire extinguisher nearby! Learn more negative-accentuated methods in Eccentric Training: How to Obtain Positive Results From a Negative Action.
A “super” combo to finish off an upper-body workout involves the standing cable crossover and the bent-over dumbbell lateral raise. Do 3 sets of 15-20 reps each with little to no rest in between the pair. For more great exercise pairs, check out Everything You Need To Know About Supersets And More – Part 1…
Take a look at the two exercise machines below—one is designed for your upper body, the other for your lower body. They’re completely different in purpose, yet you can perform the same exercise on both: the lateral raise. That’s right—if you have access to a reverse hyper machine with an adjustable roller pad, like the…
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If your goal is to build “barn door” wide shoulders, try tube laterals where you overload the top range. Here’s an example of elastic resistance providing a greater overload where you want it. For fun, combine them with dumbbells and use a jettison technique where you release the tube once you reach failure and continue…
We know that the supraspinatus plays a greater role during the first 15–30 degrees of humeral abduction (in simpler terms, the beginning of a lateral raise), while medial deltoid activation peaks between 90–120 degrees. How can we use this to our advantage? If your goal is to target the supraspinatus more, such as during rehab…
If your goal is to build “barn door” wide shoulders, lean-away dumbbell laterals allow you to overload the top range of the movement where greater activity of the medial deltoid occurs.
The lateral raise seems like such a simple exercise. How many variations can there possibly be? Well, the answer to that question, as I’ll soon show you, is “Plenty!” Since a recent study has revealed seven segments of the deltoid, not just three, and the ball and socket configuration of the glenohumeral joint allows more…