Author Topic: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?  (Read 1128 times)

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #25 on: November 06, 2025, 12:35:58 PM »
The only thing I do for shoulders any more is laterals and rear delt. I use 12-15lbs and slight bend in arm, tipped forward the whole way,going from about 6-8” away from hips and going till slightly above shoulder height pause for 1-2 seconds each rep and last row of each set pause for 5-10 seconds. I do about 15-20 sets of laterals once a week. Shoulders are the best they have ever looked.

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2025, 02:04:11 AM »
Running The Rack,Triple Drop- Sets,Laterals Behind The Back,both with DB`s and cables, and a few more have always worked great for me.

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2025, 03:45:40 AM »
Running The Rack,Triple Drop- Sets,Laterals Behind The Back,both with DB`s and cables, and a few more have always worked great for me.
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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #28 on: Today at 04:10:04 AM »
The only thing I do for shoulders any more is laterals and rear delt. I use 12-15lbs and slight bend in arm, tipped forward the whole way,going from about 6-8” away from hips and going till slightly above shoulder height pause for 1-2 seconds each rep and last row of each set pause for 5-10 seconds. I do about 15-20 sets of laterals once a week. Shoulders are the best they have ever looked.

If u wann build huge cannonball delts there's now way around super-heavy side laterals


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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #29 on: Today at 04:31:17 AM »
If u wann build huge cannonball delts there's now way around super-heavy side laterals



how to do a side lateral and manage to take the deltoid totally out of the equasion.

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #30 on: Today at 04:37:19 AM »
It´s funny when idiots attach bands to free weights  ???
From my experience use one or the other but bands will not build size like free weights.
DB side laterals ..bread & butter exercise

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #31 on: Today at 04:39:42 AM »
It´s funny when idiots attach bands to free weights  ???
From my experience use one or the other but bands will not build size like free weights.
DB side laterals ..bread & butter exercise

bands put way more strain on the muscle than a dumbbell

With a band the tension never comes off, with a dumbell the downward is uncontrolled (for most people) and allows the muscle to rest with a band you have to resist it.

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #32 on: Today at 04:46:15 AM »
bands put way more strain on the muscle than a dumbbell

With a band the tension never comes off, with a dumbell the downward is uncontrolled (for most people) and allows the muscle to rest with a band you have to resist it.

Yeah i know all this but this was said years ago about cables.. oddly enough no one has built big Guns doing cable curls or a big set of wheels doing sissy squats.
cables are OK but not the main stay of a mass routine

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #33 on: Today at 05:01:15 AM »
Yeah i know all this but this was said years ago about cables.. oddly enough no one has built big Guns doing cable curls or a big set of wheels doing sissy squats.
cables are OK but not the main stay of a mass routine

great, now explain how a muscle knows the difference between a dumbell and a cable?

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #34 on: Today at 05:11:57 AM »
great, now explain how a muscle knows the difference between a dumbell and a cable?
why are some eggs Brown & some are white?

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #35 on: Today at 05:31:31 AM »
why are some eggs Brown & some are white?
depends on the colour of the hens legs...

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #36 on: Today at 05:32:35 AM »
why are some eggs Brown & some are white?

because some hens are slags and will have any colour cock
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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #37 on: Today at 05:34:51 AM »
depends on the colour of the hens anus...

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #38 on: Today at 06:06:20 AM »
bands put way more strain on the muscle than a dumbbell

With a band the tension never comes off, with a dumbell the downward is uncontrolled (for most people) and allows the muscle to rest with a band you have to resist it.

You have to resist both.  I think you meant to say that at some point there is little to no tension on the muscle with the DB but with a band there will 'always' be tension.  That is more of a 'physics' thing because of where you have the band running vs. the db.

Also, a DB will always be the weight....with a band, the farther you stretch, the more 'weight' (tension) on it. 

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Re: Why are side laterals so damn hard on the body !?
« Reply #39 on: Today at 06:33:47 AM »
You have to resist both.  I think you meant to say that at some point there is little to no tension on the muscle with the DB but with a band there will 'always' be tension.  That is more of a 'physics' thing because of where you have the band running vs. the db.

Also, a DB will always be the weight....with a band, the farther you stretch, the more 'weight' (tension) on it.

excellent post & he makes a big thing on here about how he does so many pull ups at 60..what then is the difference if he (by his thinking ) just used bands or lat pull downs?