Dumbbell The lateral raise is a good movement. I believe some people are familiar with it. The benefits of the dumbbell lateral raise are many, but the dumbbell lateral raise is also There are a lot of things to pay attention to, but some people still understand the breathing method of dumbbell lateral raise. So, what is the breathing method for dumbbell side raises? Let’s take a look below!

Breathing method for side dumbbell raises

Exhale while raising the dumbbells, and inhale as you return to the starting point.

The correct way to raise dumbbells

1. First, choose a dumbbell of appropriate weight (usually within 2kg-10kg can meet the needs of most people). Keep your feet slightly narrower than your shoulders, keep your chest straight and your back, and hold the dumbbells with both hands on both sides of your body. And secure your wrist.

2. Keep your knees slightly bent and tighten your core, keeping your arms slightly forward and your elbows slightly bent at a fixed angle (about 150 degrees).

3. Then use your shoulder strength to slowly lift your upper arms up to the same height or slightly lower than your shoulders. Pay attention to feeling the tension in the middle deltoid muscles, and then lower the dumbbells slowly and under control without letting the dumbbells touch your body. Then lift the dumbbells again and proceed in sequence.

4. If you can't find the feeling of exerting force in this movement, please move your attention to your elbow and imagine that your elbow drives your upper arm. It's a bit similar to the butterfly machine chest clamp, but the former has the elbows turned outwards, while the latter has the elbows clamped inward.

Precautions for dumbbell lateral raises

1. Do not hunch, otherwise the weight cannot be concentrated on the shoulders.

2. Do not shake your body to avoid inertia affecting efficiency.

3. During exercise, don’t be obsessed with weight. Movements like lateral raises cannot be performed with heavy weight!