Effective Lateral Raises for Shoulder Development

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Top 5 posts of 2025 (#3): Improve your overhead reach by understanding the anatomy! 🙋In order to reach overhead, we need our shoulder blade to upwardly rotate. This upward rotation doesn't happen by chance, it occurs with the assistance of a complex lever and pulley system made up of our upper trapezius muscle, lower trapezius muscle, and serratus anterior. On top of the shoulder blade upward rotation, we need our humerus to play a role as well. This intricate dance is called 'scapulohumeral rh