Lying Side Lateral Raise

Start

Finish

How to do it

Lie on your side on the floor or a bench with a dumbbell in the top hand resting across your hip, then raise it in an arc until the arm points straight up at the ceiling.

Muscles worked

Primary: shoulders · Also works: traps

Equipment

Dumbbells

Common mistakes

• Raising past vertical, where the delt has no tension left and the rep becomes a rest
• Rolling the torso backwards as the arm comes up so the chest does the work
• Bending the elbow heavily, which shortens the lever and takes load off the delt

Variations

• Lying lateral raise with a pause at the top
• Lying raise on an incline bench

Can't do this one? Swap it for

• Seated Dumbbell Lateral Raise
• Leaning Dumbbell Lateral Raise
• Dumbbell Lateral Raise

Related exercises

• Standing Overhead Pressshoulders
• Pike Push-Upshoulders
• Dumbbell Lateral Raiseshoulders
• Shoulder Controlled Rotationsshoulders
• Face Pullshoulders
• Cable Lateral Raiseshoulders