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

Last Updated: 27 Jul 2024