How to Use delt in a Sentence

delt

noun
  • Grab a set of free weights for a bent-over row, which works the lats, rear delts, and biceps.
    Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 27 Sep. 2018
  • So do his triceps, pecs, abs, delts, quads, lats and the other 600 or so muscles of the human body.
    Jocelyn Noveck, Orange County Register, 23 May 2017
  • The solution is adding a few sets of rear delt raises to your workout.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Bent Over Reverse Fly This move engages your rear delts, the muscles at the backs of your shoulders.
    Hannah Davis, Cosmopolitan, 4 Mar. 2014
  • This is a delt move at heart, but your traps assist in raising the weight and act as stabilizers.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • This challenging move works the rear delts along with many other muscles.
    Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Expect to feel it in your entire abdominal wall, as well as your biceps, pecs, delts, lats, and calves.
    Meg Lappe, SELF, 3 Oct. 2017
  • To hit the rear delt, Cavaliere uses the hip hugger, holding a pair of dumbbells at his side and then bringing them up and behind the body, squeezing at the top.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 12 July 2022
  • Finally, Cavaliere works the front delt with a stretch front raise performed at an incline.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 12 July 2022
  • Start holding the weights with your palms in a neutral position, pull up, then pause and flare your elbows for the eccentric portion of the movement to overload the rear delts.
    Men's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Up Davis’s delt-forward performance kept pace while rivals like Deadwyler and Olivia Colman each lost a step.
    Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
  • When performed correctly, this exercise is a great back and rear delt builder that is an effective alternative to the row.
    Jay Willis, GQ, 4 June 2017
  • Your second superset includes another pulling variation with the dumbbell pullover, which works your lats, pecs, triceps, and abs, followed by the quadruped single-arm rear-delt raise.
    Rozalynn S. Frazier, SELF, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Forget this move at all costs, and instead stick to exercises that do not promote internal rotation of your shoulders, like rear-delt flys or old school back exercises.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Rare is the queen who spends five days a week at the gym inflating masculine pecs, amplifying delts and defining abs — or, worse, ignoring altogether questions of style, anatomical or applied.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023

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