How to Do Seated Lateral Raises

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Kyle Brayer and your next in-home shoulder workout will be the seated lateral raise. You're going to pick a weight, again, you can do about 15 repetitions with. Today we have the 5 lbs. for Karie. She's starting on a kitchen chair, any chair that you have will work. She's going to pick the weights up, she's going to let them hang by her sides, and actually they'll be starting right about the outside of her thighs. Here she has perfect form from her hips to her shoulders in a perfect in line, neutral position, palms toward the thighs, and then all she's going to do is lift those arms up to the sides and exhale on her way up, and then come back down, and back up. This is really working the lateral or medial portion, you can rest Karie, of the deltoid, which is this outside part. It's also working the big meaty part of the deltoid as well. If she wants to put a slight bend in her elbows while she does this exercise it might relieve some tension if she has any bone or joint pain in there. So she comes up and back down. Again, she's exhaling on the way up and inhaling on the way down. Feet positioning is not too important on this, but you want to have a nice, sturdy base. So her feet are flat on the ground, she picked shoulder-width apart which is appropriate, it's going to keep her from rocking on this chair. While the chair may be sturdy, her body on the bottom is not. So this is a seated lateral raise. "