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Banded lateral raise
Shoulders · Band
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets2 to 4
Reps12 to 20
RIR0 to 2
Bands give the least resistance where you are strongest, so chase reps and control, not load.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Side delts.
Secondary: Traps.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Sidehev med strikk
- Swedish Sidolyft med gummiband
- Danish Sidehæv med elastik
- German Seitheben mit Widerstandsband
- Spanish Elevaciones laterales con banda
- Italian Alzate laterali con elastico
- Portuguese Elevação lateral com elástico
- Russian Махи в стороны с резинкой
- French Élévations latérales (élastique)
Related shoulders exercises
- Overhead press (barbell)
- Seated overhead press (barbell)
- Push press
- Upright row (barbell)
- Landmine shoulder press
- Overhead press (dumbbells)
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