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Exercise Details

Target Muscle Group

Shoulders

Equipment Required

Dumbbells

Experience Level

Intermediate

Force Type

Push

Secondary Muscles

Trapezius

Exercise Description

Lateral raise partials target your shoulder muscles with constant tension. This builds stronger, rounder shoulders by working the hardest part of the movement.

How To

1. Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, holding dumbbells at your sides with palms facing your body. 2. Lift the weights out to your sides until your arms are parallel to the floor, keeping a slight bend in your elbows. 3. Lower the weights only halfway down, stopping when your arms form a 45-degree angle with your body. 4. Immediately lift back up to the parallel position for lateral raise partials to maintain constant tension. 5. Repeat this partial range motion, never letting your arms drop fully to your sides during the set.

Form Tips

• Keep your core tight and avoid swinging your body during lateral raise partials • Lead with your pinkies slightly higher than your thumbs to better target the shoulder muscles • Don't let the weights touch your body - maintain that halfway position for constant tension • Control the weight on both the up and down portions of each rep

Common Mistakes

• Dropping the weights too low breaks the tension that makes lateral raise partials so effective • Using weights that are too heavy causes you to swing and cheat the movement • Lifting your shoulders up toward your ears instead of keeping them down and back

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