Shoulder Lateral Exercise with the Balance Ball

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Manny Castro, Exercise Physiologist. For this next particular exercise, we’re again, bringing in 2 10 lb. dumbbells. Again, bearing in mind that your max load capacity of the ball that you have should be stated on the box, on the manual, or within the gym. You should ask about what the max load capacity is and that will tell you how much weight you can use. That includes your body weight. Most of these balls are bigger balls. You can load up to about 300 lbs. Now this particular exercise, is a shoulder lateral. Again, one of the standard exercises with a difficulty, obviously, of balancing yourself on the balance ball or the stability ball. Basically, what you will do is, as you are sitting on the ball you’ll take your dumbbells, bring them out laterally, to about parallel to the floor, hold for about a second and then bring them back down. Notice, that my palms are facing down, and my arms are going straight out to the side. Now, what some people like to do their laterals like this. If you have pain in your elbows or any other place around your arms, then this might actually relieve some of that pain or you can avoid some of that pain doing that this way. However, if you want to get the max effort from this exercise, I would use this technique."