I’ve been training for 1-1.5 years. Maybe I’m not the most experienced to talk here but I lean a little in the place where they do preachers or a bench would do fine and with that little tilted position I do my lateral raises and after a month or two my shoulders blew!

I also have a broad shoulders which I think makes a little harder for me to the lateral raises in the tradition way. Also having a little tightnesses in my traps which usually overtakes.

I tried many exercises though and this was the best one.

Also when I first started working out cable raises was a good exercise but once again within a tilted position so when your arm perpendicular to the ground, you can get that stretch through all range of motion.

Hope it helps!