How Do You Do Seated Lateral Raises?
“Hello, I’m Kyle Brayer and your next in-home shoulder workout will be the seated lateral raise. You’re going to pick a weight, again, you can do about 15 repetitions with. Today we have the 5 lbs. for Karie. She’s starting on a kitchen chair, any chair that you have will work. She’s going to pick the weights up, she’s going to let them hang by her sides, and actually they’ll be starting right about the outside of her thighs. Here she has perfect form from her hips to her shoulders in a perfect in line, neutral position, palms toward the thighs, and then all she’s going to do is lift those arms up to the sides and exhale on her way up, and then come back down, and back up. This is really working the lateral or medial portion, you can rest Karie, of the deltoid, which is this outside part. It’s also working the big meaty part of the deltoid as well. If she wants to put a slight bend in her elbows while she does this exercise it might relieve some tension if she has any bone or joint pai
