Dumbbell Bent Arm Lateral Raise
Stand tall with a dumbbell in each hand, palms facing your body, arms bent at roughly a 90-degree angle, elbows tucked slightly in front of your torso. Engage your core and maintain a slight bend in your knees.
- Equipment
- Equipment
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Focus Area
- Shoulder
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- deltoid (medial head)
Secondary muscles
- deltoid (anterior head)
- supraspinatus
- trapezius (upper and middle)
Target muscles
- shoulder
How to perform
- 1
Stand tall with a dumbbell in each hand, palms facing your body, arms bent at roughly a 90-degree angle, elbows tucked slightly in front of your torso.
- 2
Engage your core and maintain a slight bend in your knees.
- 3
Keeping the bend in your elbows constant, raise the dumbbells out to the sides until your upper arms are parallel to the floor, leading with your elbows.
- 4
Pause briefly at the top, feeling the contraction in your shoulders.
- 5
Slowly lower the dumbbells back to the starting position with control, resisting gravity.
- 6
Avoid shrugging your shoulders or using momentum throughout the movement.
Safety & form
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