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Dumbbell Lateral Raise

Laterals are great dumbbell exercise for developing the shoulders, specifically the outside head of your shoulder muscles giving you that wide shoulders look.

The below video demonstrates this exercise. you can do it sitting or standing. Sitting makes the exercise a little harder as it isolates your shoulder muscles more and its harder to cheat.

Instructions

1. Take a dumbbell in each hand, bend forward slightly and have the weights together in front of you at arms length.
   
2. Lift the weights slowly up and out to the side, turning your wrists slightly as if you were pouring water from a jug. (The rear of the dumbbell should be slightly higher then the front.)
   
3. Lift the weighst to a piont slightly higher then your shoulders.
   
4. Lower the weights slowly and under control.

A common mistake people do when doing laterals is to rock back and forwards and swinging the weights up instead of lifting them with the shoulders. You will find that you cannot lift that much with this exercise however you will get the best results from using correct form and feeling the exercise with the shoulder muscles.

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