Anyone ever do this exercise?

[Tommy Gunn]

Anyone ever do this exercise?:

http://abcbodybuilding.com/exercise3/llaterals.htm

Are they good for strengthening your supraspinatus? What about the side delts? I had some surgery done on my shoulder last year and my doctor told me doing these 'L' lateral raises are better for strengthening your supraspinatus and side delts than regular lateral raises. Is this true? Here are two questions I have:

1) If I do these consistently (once a week, 3 sets, reps of 12,10,8 increasing weight each set) will I be able to really strengthen my supraspinatus and side delts?

2) What has your guys experience been when including these in your routine? Are they better than regular lateral raises? Did your side delts get bigger and stronger? Did your rotator cuffs get strengthened (particularly the supraspinatus)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Tommy Gunn]

Any of you guys ever try doing this exercise?

[StevePJC]

I do. IMO they're better than the standard side lateral. I personally get more of a burn.

[Tommy Gunn]

Are they good for strengthening your supraspinatus?

[StevePJC]

I would think so. Someone with better knowledge of what exercise does what for what muscle would probably be better to ask.

When I do this as part of my shoulder routine I get a good solid burn from my mid delt up into my traps. It doesn't take a real heavy weight to achieve this either.

[max2extreme]

Anyone ever do this exercise?:

http://abcbodybuilding.com/exercise3/llaterals.htm

Are they good for strengthening your supraspinatus? What about the side delts? I had some surgery done on my shoulder last year and my doctor told me doing these 'L' lateral raises are better for strengthening your supraspinatus and side delts than regular lateral raises. Is this true? Here are two questions I have:

1) If I do these consistently (once a week, 3 sets, reps of 12,10,8 increasing weight each set) will I be able to really strengthen my supraspinatus and side delts?

2) What has your guys experience been when including these in your routine? Are they better than regular lateral raises? Did your side delts get bigger and stronger? Did your rotator cuffs get strengthened (particularly the supraspinatus)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I do them like this sometimes, but not exclusively. Reason being is because the deltoids have 3 divisions, which in order to work all of these divisions, your starting position needs to vary: db's on the side, db's behind your back, and db's in front of you. This will make sure you work all the fibers in your middle delt. All lateral raises contract the supraspinatus, but once you raise your arm above a certain point, your delts take over more than your supraspinatus (which in the early movement is the main agonist of the movement). For safety reasons though, if I was in your position, I would do them exclusively on a nautilus machine (which is the same motion as shown in your website) and it ensures proper form, until you are sure its strong and injury free. you can get irreversible deterioration of the supraspinatus tendon which makes it very painful to raise your arm. This usually doesnt happen to people until they are over 40 though. But, Id listen to your doctor more than anyone... Hope the info helps.

[krusher]

yes I do them I noticed it worked better for me if I keep my wrists slightly higher than my elbow 2". also try keeping your elbow foward a little bit and not directly at your side. 4 me it seems to hit the muscle better but were all different what do I know?