DELT

Deltoid

Anatomy

Short definition

Deltoid muscle covering the shoulder joint.

Full definition

DELT is the superficial shoulder muscle with three heads — anterior (clavicular), middle (acromial), posterior (spinal) — abducting the arm and engaged in all pressing; the anterior head in presses, the posterior in rows.

Examples

Seated dumbbell press targets the middle and anterior DELT.

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