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Strong Women
Move of the week: build better posture with front to lateral raise for shoulders
By Chloe Gray
4 years ago
Welcome to our weekly Move of the Week series. Every Monday, we’ll be sharing with you one of our favourite exercises – how to do them, what muscles they work and why they should be a regular part of your workout regime. This week: front and lateral raises.
We believe that compound exercises are the foundation of any training routine. But in order to support your big lifts, you have to include some isolation exercises in your training. If you’re only bench pressing and bent over rowing you’ll be building the large, powerful muscles like your pecs and lats – but might struggle when it comes to stability and endurance, aka the foundation of posture and daily movements.
That’s why shoulder isolation is so important. Particularly of the anterior and lateral delts – the two muscles that aren’t often targetted in the big upper body lifts. The front and lateral raise changes all of that.
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