Shoulders are my most challenging bodypart to develop, so I've had to come up with unique techniques to build them up.
For me, I've found that lifting heavy weight in overhead presses didn't get me the development that I was looking for. I ended up just trying to move the weight without really focusing on feeling the delts working.
In addition, because my shoulders have some mechanical issues, if I kept up with overhead pressing too long, I got nagging injuries.
Which would then force me to switch primarily to isolation exercises.
This "In-Set Superset" method gives you the best of BOTH worlds, alternating reps of an isolation and compound exercise.
I call these "In-Set Supersets" because you're using two exercises but instead of working through one exercise then switching to the other, you're going back and forth within the set.
It's actually a CRAZY good technique not only for shoulders but for just about every other muscle group as well.
Use a weight you can get reps with on the lateral raise, as that's the weaker exercise.
Do a single rep of lateral raises.
Then swing the dumbbells up to your shoulders...this should be fairly easy since the weights you're using for laterals aren't super heavy.
Now do a single rep of overhead dumbbell presses.
Swing them back down to the bottom hang position.
Then do another rep of laterals.
Repeat until you get close to failure on the laterals. At that point, you can then choose to continue with the overhead presses until you get close to failure on that exercise as well (I recommend saving that for the last set of these, if you do more than one set, which I do...2-3 is the best way to go).
Need more side delt work? Another excellent lateral raise variation is the Barbell Lateral Raise.
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