Palms up, arms up, front delts on fire.
Lead with your knuckles and keep palms up. Don't swing, let the front delts do the work.
Raising the band with palms up puts your front delts through their signature job, lifting your arms out in front, with the underhand grip keeping your shoulders in a friendlier externally rotated position. Because you are standing on the band, tension climbs as your hands rise, hitting hardest right at shoulder height where the delts peak. It is a clean isolation move for the front of the shoulder with nothing else on the bill.
The underhand grip externally rotates the shoulder, which many lifters find smoother through the raise, and it loads the front delts along a slightly different line. If standard front raises pinch, this variation often does not.
Pressing hits the front delts hard, so most people only need a little extra. This earns its slot when your pressing options are limited, when you want shoulder volume without heavy joint loading, or as a burnout after pressing.
Slow the tempo and shrink your ego on band thickness. Stand tall, brace, and raise to shoulder height with a one-second pause at the top. If your torso rocks backwards to start the rep, the band is too heavy.
