How To Do Seated Dips Video

Increase arm strength with side dumbbell lateral raises. Learn how to work out with dumbbell exercises in this training video.

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Begin with moderate weight
Keep shoulders back &chest high &and abs tight
Slow and controlled movements

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Michelle is a personal trainer at a gym in NC and has been a personal trainer for several years. She is certified through ACE and is a certified aerobics instructor as well. Her Specialty is weight lifting and she enjoys training aspiring female body builders as she is one herself. She focuses on helping her clients stronger, healthier, and sending them out feeling better for it. The best part of her job is when she see people living a better life as a result of the physical training. She was also a Marine physical trainer before she was employed at the gym.

MICHELLE TRAPP: We're going to do side dumbbell lateral raises. What these are working is our shoulders or our deltoids. More specifically, we're working the medial head of our deltoid. We've got three. We've got an anterior, a medial, and the back is the posterior. This is going to work that middle part of the delt. We're going to grab dumbbells. I will star lighter on these and work your way up. So I want perfect form. Really easy to get shoulder injuries in the gym. Really hard to come back from shoulder injury. We're going to stand feet about shoulder-width apart. My abs are tight. My shoulders are pulled back. My chest is high. What I'm going to do is I'm going to raise these dumbbells to shoulder height. Notice that my pinkies are a little bit higher than my thumbs and I'm going to bring them back down. No need to come up here; here's just fine. My movements are slow and controlled. I'm going to come up. I'm going to stop and hold it for a second at the top and come down. We want to remember not to do. No hands higher than the arms. So when your lateral raises start to look like this, your weight's too heavy. When your lateral raises start to look like this your weight's too heavy. You're using momentum to get them up now and you're risking yourself shoulder injury. Slow and controlled movements. Up, squeeze at the top and down. That's how you do a side dumbbell lateral raise. Remember, everything tight, my shoulder stayed pull back, my arms don't come above my shoulders, pinkies a little bit higher and back down, and I'm not jerking around, slow and controlled. That's how you do a side dumbbell lateral raise.

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