Cable Lateral Raises

How to do it

1. Set a handle on the low pulley and stand side-on to the stack.
2. Take the handle in your outside hand, arm across your body.
3. Raise it out to the side up to shoulder height, elbow slightly soft.
4. Lower slowly against the cable.
5. The cable pulls from below, so tension stays on at the bottom where dumbbells go weightless.

Muscles it trains

Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.

How it compares

Compared with the Dumbbell Lateral Raises, it loads every muscle to the same degree. It needs Cable machine where the other uses Dumbbells. Compared with the Face Pull, it loads Rear delts 90 points lower, Side delts 80 points higher, Biceps 15 points lower.

Other ways to train this

• Dumbbell Lateral Raises Dumbbells
• Seated Lateral Raises DumbbellsBench
• Plate-Loaded Lateral Raise Plate-loaded machine
• Barbell Upright Row BarbellIntermediate
• Cable Upright Row Cable machineIntermediate
• Kettlebell Sumo High Pull KettlebellsIntermediate
• Side-Lying Lateral Raise DumbbellsBench
• One-Arm Plate-Loaded Lateral Raise Plate-loaded machine
• Smith Machine Upright Row Smith machine
• Kettlebell Halo Kettlebells
• Machine Lateral Raise Machines

Other exercises for the Side delts

• Face Pull 20% Cable machine
• Cable Front Raise 20% Cable machine
• Handstand Push-Ups 60% BodyweightProfessional
• Pike Push-Ups 55% Bodyweight

Exercise illustrations and data by RepDB (repdb.co), used under licence.