How To Do Shoulder Isolation Exercises Video

Isolate shoulder muscles with specific weightlifting exercises. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.

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Targets anterior & lateral deltoids
Bring dumbbells to side
Feet shoulder-width apart

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Lance is certified personal trainer through American Fitness Association of America. He graduated from UNC with a biology degree and currently works for a gym. He specializes in weight training, circuit training, endurance training, and teaching people the proper forms for exercise. He enjoys helping others reach their goals.

LANCE BUMGARNER: Right now, I'm going to show you a little bit about how to do a shoulder isolation exercise. A shoulder isolation exercise involves isolating a single part of the shoulder. The shoulder is made up of the anterior deltoid, a lateral deltoid and a posterior deltoid, three different muscles. The first exercise I'll show you is going to be targeting the front of the deltoid, the anterior deltoid. This is an anterior front raise. Grab your dumbbells, right by your side. You're going to exhale as you raise the weights, inhale as you drop the weights back down, keeping your body in a nice, straight line, feet rooted to the ground, shoulder-width apart and raise, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale. The next exercise that you can do to isolate the lateral part of your deltoid would be a lateral raise. Same stance, everything is the same. Body is in line. We're going to do a lateral raise straight out to the side targeting the lateral deltoids. So straight out to the side, arms parallel with the floor, inhale on the way back down, exhale, inhale, making sure to maintain good form at all times. I'm not going too fast. I'm staying in control of the weights. After you complete your set, set the weights down. A few key things to remember when doing this exercise is feet placement, shoulder-width apart, dumbbells starting right by your side, raising until your arms are parallel with the floor to the side as well as to the front. This is how to do isolation shoulder exercises working your shoulders.

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