Short and quick tips: How can variations in lateral lift encourage your shoulders to grow?

Proper performance of the exercise is necessary for several reasons: above all, it ensures progress without the risk of injury, and progress with proper performance is guaranteed. But once you've mastered the proper way to perform a particular exercise, it's time to play around and try different variations that will further activate your muscle and encourage adaptation.

Namely, the slightly different angles of performance of the exercise help to achieve greater muscle density of the muscle and its greater volume and fullness. Over time, incorporating different variations of the same exercise contributes to an increase in strength, size and balance, or symmetry.

In order to hit and activate a muscle from different angles, it only takes a couple of degrees of movement in different directions. The activation will be different and you will feel the progress very clearly.

Lateral shoulder lifting is one of the exercises that has many variations. We bring you variations that you can try out at your next shoulder training.

Watch the exercise variations in the video:

Here are examples of variations in lateral lift with shoulder dumbbells, that is, dominant for the middle shoulder:

• From a sitting position: thus reducing the momentum and increasing the weight of the performance of the exercise
• Standing but raising one hand at a time: increasing concentration on each arm
• Lying sideways on a bench: thus reducing torque and increasing tension due to slope
• On cables: This gives you constant tension and a wide range of angles under tension
• On the device: making it easier to perform the device until failure
• Tilt from a completely vertical position (forward or backward): thus increasing the range of motion

With a little creativity, the number of variations on this exercise is huge. In addition, with these variations, apart from a different angle and different activation, you ensure that you can do shoulder training outside the gym, with improvised props or without waiting for a device or bench in the gym.

Be creative with this exercise and your shoulders will respond to it as you progress.