Exercises for the Shoulder
Summertime is here. All bodybuilders want to develop their shoulders. Even those who don’t consider themselves serious weight lifters, want bigger, stronger shoulders to fill out their shirts or just to look good on the beach!
To help you get on your way to bigger, stronger and more defined shoulders, I am providing a few exercises to get the results you want.
Now, there are basically two kinds of shoulder exercises ? raises and shoulder presses. In this article, we?ll be covering presses, with raises being covered in a future article (keep checking back!). Presses are great exercise for the shoulders which work the triceps primarily, but do involve other muscles as well.
Sitting or Standng Military Press:
This exercise can be done while standing ? though for beginners, I?d recommend starting out with seated military presses, on a bench with good back support.
Sitting or standing, use an overhand grip to grasp barbell. Hold it at shoulder height; hands slightly farther apart than your shoulders. Slowly raise the barbell up until your arms are as far up as they can go without straining. Slowly lower the dumbbell to shoulder height and repeat.
Dumbbell Seated Press:
This one is a lot like the Military Press, but is done with dumbbells instead. This press targets the front and side deltoids, unlike many press exercises ? so consider mixing it up with these presses!
Your sense of balance gets a workout here, and this one requires using less weight than you normally do.
Sit on your bench with a dumbbell in both hands. Hold the dumbbells at shoulder height with your palms facing outward. Again, you are going to press the dumbbells slowly up until your arms are locked out. Slowly return the dumbbells to shoulder height and then repeat.
These are just a few of the many presses you can do for building bigger shoulders, but this will hopefully give you enough of a taste to seek out some other press exercises (of course, I?ll cover more in my articles at some point). Keep working those shoulders and I?ll see all of you at the gym!
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