Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up. My name is Ben

Greenfield and I'm the Get Fit Guy. In today's episode, we're going to delve into part two of the

best exercises for seven popular trouble spots on your body. In part one, you learn the

best exercises to tackle and tone the troublesome areas of your butt, thighs, hips, and chest.

So in this episode, we're going to focus on your shoulders, back, arms, and abs. So let's

jump into your shoulders. Now, when it comes to your shoulders,

you'd think a basic overhead shoulder press would be the best way to go, but it turns out that

to get a nice, toned, triangular look in your shoulders, you actually need to do two types of an

exercise called a raise, both a lateral raise and a rear raise. So you need to perform two different

exercises because the deltoid muscles in your shoulders, aka your delts, are actually comprised

of three different sets of muscle fibers, each of which can be targeted with different moves.

So you need to come at your shoulder from a variety of different angles.

For a lateral dealt raise, simply stand with your arms at your side, holding a weight such as

a dumbbell in each hand. Then, keeping your arms as straight as possible, raise the dumbbells

out to the side until they're parallel to your shoulders, and then lower the weights

back to the start position. I'll put a video and a photo in the show notes over at quick and dirty

tips.com. Not just for this exercise, but for every exercise I mentioned today. Now, the movement for a

rear dealt raise is pretty similar to the movement for a lateral dealt raise, but this time you bend over

with your butt out behind you and a straight back, and you start with the dumbbells hanging below

your chest. Then you raise the dumbbells out to the side as if your arms were airplane wings

towards the ceiling while squeezing your shoulder blades together. So let's move on to the back.

Your back is comprised of many different muscles, but when it

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