While the best exercise for building shoulder mass is the overhead press, you might want to incorporate side laterals into your workout to add thickness to your outer shoulders. There are, however, a couple ways to lose some of the benefit from this exercise.
Your shoulder muscles are actually composed of three separate heads that are in the front (anterior deltoids), middle (medial deltoids), and rear (posterior deltoids). Developing full looking deltoids is a good idea because your shoulders are visible from every angle, whether you’re being viewed from the front, side, or rear.
Working on your medial deltoid adds width to your shoulders which helps make your waistline look smaller in comparison. This is great for women also as it helps to shape an “hourglass figure”.
A common mistake when doing deltoid side laterals, however, is to use too much momentum to raise the weights up to shoulder level instead of letting your muscles do the work. There are a few ways this can happen. We’ll take a look at each of these problems and how to fix them. (more…)
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We’ve spent the past 3 weeks talking about shoulder routines, and today is the final installment!
As with the traps, you have to be careful of overdeveloping your delts because it can cause you to be a little out of balance. The photo to the right shows a young kid (more…)
Continue reading about Filling Out Your Shoulders – Part 4 of 4
In the last two weeks we’ve talked about shoulders. We focused on the traps previously but today let’s talk about the deltoids (a/k/a delts).
What are the delts? They are the muscles surrounding the joint where your arm connects to your shoulder. They are involved in many exercises, as well (more…)
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