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Overhead lateral raise
A isolation exercise for the side delts and front delts, with help from the traps. Equipment: dumbbells.
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How to do it
- Setup: Very light dumbbells at your sides, thumbs up.
- Raise out to the sides and all the way overhead
- Lower the same way
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