Shoulder Lateral Raise Workouts for Weightlifting & Bodybuilding

Video Transcript

"In this clip, we’re going to be doing the shoulder lateral raise. It’ s a great exercise for the shoulders. It’s going to develop the outer crest, the roundness of the shoulder, the deltoid area of the shoulder. Very important, as usual, make sure that you try it first with a moderate weight before you take the weights up so you can get more of an advanced move in them. When you’re ready to go, keep you feet about shoulder width apart so you’re nice and steady. Always keep you spine nice and straight and your chest elevated slightly, not too tremendous. When you’re ready to go you’re going to keep the dumbbells at the crest of the thigh right towards the front corner of the thigh, and then elevate them straight off the shoulders. Nice and even with the upper shoulder there and down nice and slow. You don’t need to come back and touch the thigh because when you get down that low, there’s really no resistance down there anyway. Keep a slight angle down in the wrist. If you notice, the hands are facing down slightly. Try not to shrug your shoulders. In other words, don’t lift them up. Do me a favor, show them what that looks like when you shrug your shoulders. Try not to do that. That’s just developing your traps and not your shoulders. If you notice, he keeps his shoulders down nice and low. As you see when he lifts, you can see the roundness of the shoulder enhance. That’s exactly the area that’s being worked right now. Always remember, you’re exhaling as you elevate the weight, inhaling as you lower the weight. Give me about 3 more. Again, repetitions about 10-15. Pause for a second. Hold the last one, I recommend, for about 3 seconds, and then down. It’s going to give you a nice big pump in those shoulders. You’re really going to feel the exercise pay off. This is the shoulder lateral raise. If you’d like anymore information on this exercise, you can go to visionfit.com."