Potential Fulfilled Personal Training

Part 1 of 3 – Smith Machine Shoulder Press

⭐️ Benefits
•Provides added stability by keeping the bar on a fixed path
•Allows you to focus more on pressing mechanics and loading the shoulders

🎯 Primary Target
•Front Delts

🔑 Key Points
•Keep your elbows slightly in front of your body, don’t press with your arms directly out at 90°
•Avoid shrugging your shoulders up toward your ears
•Range of motion will depend on your individual shoulder mobility

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Part 2of 2 – Cable Side Lateral Variations

⭐️ Benefit

•Cable provides more consistent tension throughout the movement
•Cable starting behind body allows for greater stretch in side delt
•ISO can help address muscle imbalances & allow for greater focus on each side with fewer variables to control

🎯 Primary Target
•Side (Lateral) Delts

🔑 Key Points

•Raise Cable just below hip level
•Lead with the elbow
•Keep your wrist neutral

Part 1 of 2 – Cable Side Lateral Variations

⭐️ Benefit

•Cable provides more consistent tension throughout the movement
•ISO can help address muscle imbalances & allow for greater focus on each side with fewer variables to control

🎯 Primary Target
•Side (Lateral) Delts

🔑 Key Points

•Raise Cable just below hip level
•Lead with the elbow
•Keep your wrist neutral

‼️Not demoed, but a wrist strap/cuff is a great way to take the load off the wrist‼️

📹 Dee Martinez - Videographer

Part 3 of 3 – Incline Dumbbell Side Laterals (Supine)

⭐️ Benefits

•Increased loading in the lengthened position compared to a standard standing lateral raise

🎯 Primary Target

•Side (Lateral) Delts

🔑 Key Points

•Tuck the chin
•Arms begin slightly behind the body
•Lead with the elbows
•Keep your wrists neutral
•Brace your core
•Raise to about shoulder height

📹 Dee Martinez - Videographer

Part 2 of 3 – Prone Incline Lateral Raise

⭐️ Benefits

* Increased loading in the lengthened position compared to a standard standing lateral raise.
* Chest support minimizes momentum for stricter ex*****on.

🎯 Primary Target

* Side (Lateral) Delts

🎯 Secondary

* Posterior Deltoids

🔑 Key Points

* Lead with the elbows
* Arms begin slightly across the body
* Keep your wrists neutral
* Brace your core
* Raise to about shoulder height
* Control the eccentric

📹Dee Martinez - Videographer

Part 1 of 3 – Dumbbell Standing Side Laterals

🎯

•Side Delts

🔑 Points

•Lead with the elbows
•Raise in the scapular plane
•Keep your wrists neutral
•Brace your core
•Raise to about shoulder height

📹Dee Martinez - Videographer