Strength: Lats
Weakness: Shoulders
It can be hard to cram in enough shoulder work into one workout, especially if that workout also includes chest and triceps. In this case, I recommend adding in some extra shoulder work on a back-focused day. My favorite way to do this is by pairing vertical pulls like lat pull-downs or pull-up variations with dumbbell shoulder raises.
45-Degree Shoulder Raise Exercise
I like pairing these together for a couple of reasons. First, they’re opposing actions at the shoulder joint, which allows them to be done back to back without interfering with the performance.
Bring the dumbbells over to the chin-up bar or lat pull-down machine so you don’t have to walk around the gym and potentially lose your spot. This is especially important when you’re training in a big-box gym at prime time, which is also why all of the sets provided in this article share this same quality.
Since it’s a back-focused training day, the shoulder raises will be done second in the set, after completing the pulls. You can use pretty much any variation of dumbbell shoulder raises: front, side, or 45-degree raises halfway between.
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