Dumbbell Scaption

What it is

This movement strengthens the muscles that stabilize your shoulder blade. You will raise a light dumbbell in each hand, primarily targeting your shoulders and engaging your trapezius muscles. This isolation exercise helps improve overall shoulder health and stability.

Technique tips

• Keep your thumbs pointing upwards throughout the entire lifting motion.
• Raise the dumbbells about 30 degrees forward from your body.
• Maintain fully extended arms without locking your elbows during the movement.
• Stop lifting when your arms are approximately parallel to the ground.
• Control the movement on the way down, resisting gravity gently.

How to track your progress

Log the weight and reps of each set. Straddly turns every set into an estimated one-rep max, so a heavier single and a strong set of eight both count as progress, and it flags a personal record the moment you beat your best.