Main Muscles Affected
- Shoulders
Exercise Difficulty
Easy
Performing the lifts with straight-arm dumbbell lying on the side:
- Lie down with your side on a bench
- Keep your legs bent and your back elbow resting on the bench that stays in line with your shoulder
- Grab a dumbbell in your upper arm and bring your outstretched arm perpendicular to the floor
- Keep your wrist facing you
- Raise your upper arm which stays straight over your shoulder
- Keep your wrist in line with your shoulder
- Slowly return to the starting position.
- Excessive loading of the body weight on the shoulder of the lower arm
- Raising and lowering the upper arm too fast
- During the lift, push your arm back over the shoulder.
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