If you've ever read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, you know just how useful a towel can be.

If you haven't, then that reference will be completely lost on you... :)

Essentially, the idea is that you can use a towel for a lot more than drying yourself off...as a pillow, as a blanket, as rope ladder to escape, etc. It's actually a really good reference (I promise!).

Because that's where THIS exercise comes into play.

 

It's a Towel-Plate Lateral Raise for your side delts.

You're going to string a towel (at least 2 to 3 feet long, ideally) through the center hole of a weight plate (I'm using a 25 lb plate).

Then you're going to grip onto the ends, with the plate hanging down in front of you.

Now you're going to do a lateral raise, bringing your hands up and out to the sides as you raise the plate up. The cool thing is, because you're also straightening out the towel, you're getting direct sideways resistance on the side delts, which makes for VERY effective on those side delts.

This is my preferred way to do lateral raises, to be honest. Once you've tried it, you won't want to go back to regular raises.

Come up until the plate is at your upper chest and hold for a moment, if you can. The plate will come in contact with your upper chest. Your upper arms should be almost horizontal and your forearms will be up a bit higher.

Lower and repeat.

Here's a side view.

This is a really simple way to essentially DOUBLE the effective tension going onto the side delts when performing a lateral raise. You get the up and down resistance of gravity then the lateral resistance from the effort of straightening out the towel.

You'll find the video for this one here

 

The clock is ticking...

This exercise is from my book "The Best Home Gym Exercises You've Never Heard Of"...

It's got 277 exercises, unique and innovative, just like this one, covering every major muscle group in your body.

And I've currently got it on sale for 60% off the regular price until Sunday night at midnight. Then the price will more than double.

 

Click here to grab your copy of "The Best Home Gym Exercises You've Never Heard Of" now!

Nick Nilsson
The Mad Scientist of Muscle

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