Front Raise Shoulder Strengthening Exercise for Seniors

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Manny Castro, Exercise Physiologist. In this clip I will demonstrate a strengthening exercise for the front of the shoulders using a regular household chair and dumbbells or again as explained in the previous clip, a pair of empty milk jugs and you can fill them with water to your required resistance or your preferred resistance. Now for this exercise, once again you want to sit down in your chair with your back to the backing of your chair, nice and straight back, and your abdominals nice and tight, your feet flat on the floor about shoulder width apart and you will bring your arms down. Now this time your palms will be facing back instead of facing inside the way they were in the previous exercise. What you will do is you will raise your arms up straight in front of you and you will hold them for about a second and then you want to put your arms right back down, using a nice slow count of 3. And all the repetitions you do with all the exercises, you’ll want to use a nice slow count of 3 to come up and then a nice slow count of 3 to come down. Remember at the top of the movement to hold it for about a second. Once again when you complete your 8 to 12 repetitions you will rest 2 to 3 minutes and then complete another set or even 2 to 3 sets after that. "