Shoulder
seated-dumbbell-front-raise
Sit upright on a bench with a dumbbell in each hand, palms facing your thighs. Keep your back straight, chest up, and core engaged.
- Equipment
- Equipment
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Focus Area
- Shoulder
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- anterior deltoid
Secondary muscles
- medial deltoid
- upper trapezius
- serratus anterior
- rectus abdominis
Target muscles
- shoulder
How to perform
- 1
Sit upright on a bench with a dumbbell in each hand, palms facing your thighs.
- 2
Keep your back straight, chest up, and core engaged.
- 3
With a slight bend in your elbows, slowly raise the dumbbells straight in front of you until your arms are parallel to the floor.
- 4
Pause briefly at the top, squeezing your anterior deltoids.
- 5
Slowly lower the dumbbells back to the starting position with control.
- 6
Avoid using momentum or shrugging your shoulders during the movement.
Safety & form
Train smart. Read these notes before adding heavy load.
