Dumbbell Lateral Raise Exercise Video

Exercise Instructions:

The dumbbell lateral raise is a good exercise for building width in your upper body which gives you the "V" shape. Grab a set of dumbbells and stand straight up with the dumbbells at your sides. Your palms should be facing your body. You should be holding the dumbbells slightly off your body, this keeps the tension on the side delts. This is your starting position for the exercise. To execute, slowly raise the dumbbells up to around shoulder height. It's important that you do not let your wrists go above your elbows while raising the weight, this will take the work off the side delts and put it on the front delts. Pause at the top of the movement, then slowly lower the weight back to the starting position. Do not let the dumbbells touch your body, then raise for the next rep.

Tips & Advice:

The dumbbell lateral raise is one of those exercises that so many people do incorrectly. First, this is an isolation exercise, so you should be focusing on stretch and muscle contraction, not using heavy weights. Second, you MUST keep your rep timing slow and controlled. So many people use momentum to swing heavy weights up, and this is not going to get you the best results from the dumbbell lateral raise. Third, it very important that your elbows stay above your wrists. If your wrists come up to far, the focus comes off your side delts and onto your front delts. A good trick to ensure this does not happen is to tilt the dumbbells down as if you were pouring a jug of water as you raise them up. This makes it very hard to raise the wrists higher than the elbows. And finally, keep the side delts under stress for the whole set by not allowing the dumbbells to touch your body or "hang" at the bottom of the movement.

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17. Alternate Seated Arnold Press
18. One Arm Seated Arnold Press
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20. One Arm Standing Dumbbell Front Raise
21. Alternate Standing Dumbbell Front Raise
22. Seated Dumbbell Front Raise
23. Alternate Seated Dumbbell Front Raise
24. One Arm Seated Dumbbell Front Raise
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26. One Arm Dumbbell Front Raise On Incline Bench
27. Alternate Dumbbell Lateral Raise
28. One Arm Dumbbell Lateral Raise
29. Seated Dumbbell Lateral Raise
30. Seated Alternate Dumbbell Lateral Raise
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33. Alternate Seated Bent Over Dumbbell Reverse Fly
34. One Arm Seated Bent Over Dumbbell Reverse Fly
35. Bent Over Dumbbell Reverse Fly
36. Alternate Bent Over Dumbbell Reverse Fly
37. One Arm Bent Over Dumbbell Reverse Fly
38. Dumbbell Reverse Fly On Incline Bench
39. Alternate Dumbbell Reverse Fly On Incline Bench
40. One Arm Dumbbell Reverse Fly On Incline Bench
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