Seated Side Lateral Raise

ShouldersDumbbellBeginnerIsolation
Seated Side Lateral Raise — start position
Start
Seated Side Lateral Raise — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryShoulders

How to do it

  1. 01

    Pick a couple of dumbbells and sit at the end of a flat bench with your feet firmly on the floor. Hold the dumbbells with your palms facing in and your arms straight down at your sides at arms' length. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    While maintaining the torso stationary (no swinging), lift the dumbbells to your side with a slight bend on the elbow and the hands slightly tilted forward as if pouring water in a glass. Continue to go up until you arms are parallel to the floor. Exhale as you execute this movement and pause for a second at the top.

  3. 03

    Lower the dumbbells back down slowly to the starting position as you inhale.

  4. 04

    Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

In the app

Seated Side Lateral Raise appears when you own dumbbells and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have dumbbells

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

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