Weights - lateral raise

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I keep forgetting to ask my trainer this question, and I won't see her

again until late next week, and my curiosity is killing me at this point.

Please help!

When I first started this three weeks ago, my arms were the strongest part

of me. I've been doing seated rows since Day One, using the

strongest-resistance bands, and it's been the easiest thing ever - poor

trainer-lady is starting to threaten to seat me all the way to the back

door in order to get enough resistance to make it tough on me.

The one thing that I consistently fail on, EARLY, is the lateral raise.

Like, this is the one thing that I get to the point where no matter how

hard I try, I just cannot get the muscle to go any further - I end up doing

a half-raise on the last few reps. It's an interesting experience,

having that type of failure. I mean, everything else, yeah, it's hard to

do, but it's a totally different feeling from " hard " to " that suckah just

won't GO! "

So my question is, why is it so much harder for that particular motion?

I mean, I understand that there are different combos of muscles and stuff

involved (vaguely), but what exactly are they? I know that a rowing

motion is a pretty common motion in everyday life (especially for me) so

those particular muscles would be stronger, but it's still not connecting

with me why the lateral raise is three times harder than any other arm motion.

MFJ

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