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
• Pull-downs train your back muscles, including your lats, traps, and rear delts.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 25 Aug. 2025
• The solution is adding a few sets of rear delt raises to your workout.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 2 Nov. 2022
• This challenging move works the rear delts along with many other muscles.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Pause briefly at the bottom position to feel your back muscles and rear delts contract.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Reverse Flies Reverse flies pack a punch for your upper back (rhomboids and traps) and your rear delts.
  — Leoni Jesner, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
• Finally, Cavaliere works the front delt with a stretch front raise performed at an incline.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 12 July 2022
• Working in this style minimizes rest breaks and ups the burn on the muscles—biceps, triceps, rear delts, and shoulders.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
• Strong rear delts also come into play during activities that involve pulling and overhead motions.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Dumbbell Rear Delt Flys Flyes are an excellent way to target the rear delts.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• Band Pull-Aparts Band pull-aparts are a safe and effective way to target the rear delts using a resistance band.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• These moves—like rows, pull-ups, and deadlifts—naturally recruit backside players like your rear delts, rhomboids, glutes, and hamstrings.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 11 Sep. 2025
• Spending long periods of time working at a desk or hunched over a smartphone can cause your deltoids (also known as delts or shoulders) and lower back to round forward.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Single Arm Dumbbell Row The dumbbell row targets your rear delts and also works your main back muscles.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• Up Davis’s delt-forward performance kept pace while rivals like Deadwyler and Olivia Colman each lost a step.
  — Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
• Strong rear delts have a primary role in your shoulder stability, ​​helping reduce the risk of shoulder injuries, like injuries to your rotator cuffs.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• Targeting your rear delts is essential for balanced shoulder development and overall shoulder health.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• Tips for Proper Form and Technique The rear delts are a small muscle group, and proper form is essential when working them.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• Wide Grip Lat Pull-Down The lat pull-down, done with a wide grip, ensures that the tension is felt in your rear delts and not as much in your lats.
  — Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Glorious biceps and delts reigned, not just to stay cool (literally and figuratively) but also to communicate themes.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2023
• 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
• More specifically, upper-body pull moves often work the lats (your broadest back muscle), traps (upper back and neck muscles), rear delts (a shoulder muscle), and rhomboids (upper back muscles), Williams says.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 25 Apr. 2024