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Deltoid/Shoulder Thread
Landon Sanchez
Angel Kelly
pull up with the bar, overhead press, the exercise where you push the dumbbells over your head and that exercise where you raise your straight arms fro the side of the body until they are horizontal
Austin Brown
Nathaniel King
Side lateral raises are great for mid deltoids. Front deltoids are typically well developed if you bench or incline bench a lot. Most people need accessory exercises to work mods and definitely rear delts. For rear delts do reverse flies. I like doing bent over rows with low weight (and higher reps) with a really wide grip to assist with rear delts as well.
Lincoln Roberts
1) when u do regular dumbell lateral raises you are basically doing partials
2) on top of that you are missing out on the most important part of the exercise for hypertrophy, which is the part where the muscle belly is the most lengthened
3) pic related gives shoulder doms and gains like never before
Elijah Cruz
How do you practically do this though?
Dominic Morris
Cable and dont lower your arm all the way down to keep the tension
David Edwards
my anteriors are ripped from years of dual handed cooming
get on my level
Robert Campbell
some machines are well designed and take care of this by adjusting the resistance curve
you can also use cables properly
other option is maybe making some kind of gadget that does what I showed in the pìc
Dominic Barnes
do ohp
heavy
Josiah Hughes
Is there really a difference between front and side lateral raises? can i get away with just doing side raises?
Brandon Mitchell
cables are for faggots. what are you a bodybuilder getting ready for G4P?
Isaac Taylor
you are a faggot. are you getting ready for G4P?
Mason Bennett
Yes side will hit medial, front will hit anterior.
Any pushing movement will hit your front hard so just do side raises if you can't be fucked doing both.
Anthony Russell
Ohp, side raises, rear dealt flies, upright rows (wide grip)
John Murphy
I so BB bench 1-2x a week plus DB flat+inc bench 2x a week for anterior
Lat raises 3x a week for medial
And facepulls 1-2x a week for posterior
Also do pend rows 1-2x a week if you count that
Nathaniel Reed
Unironically this shit right here. Get the strongest variant and make a double fold and grab with a 2-3 hand distance and pull side-ways for anterior/medial activation. You can also do side-raises and front raises. Gives you a really good pump and allows you to really play with the loading on the muscles.
Been doing this daily/every second day and my shoulders are exploding.
William Hughes
nice comeback brah
Adam Allen
You either lie down on a bench (with a slight incline for best results) or do it with a cable between your legs and leaning away from the machine
Anthony Harris
This
Luke Torres
This..
Henry Ward
And this one. Repeat, 4 sets each, 12-15 reps
Ryan Jones
>used to do bb ohp, front/side lateral raises and facepulls
>didnt really get anywhere
>now i just do a full body where I switch between BB OHP one day then DB OHP the next (AxBx) and my shouldersehave never been larger or stronger
I dont understand how muscles work at all
Cameron Edwards
Or a cable machine/pulley will provide constant tension
Kayden Martinez
I'd like to give her 4 steps if you know what I'm saying.
Justin Sullivan
the forbidden move
Robert Ramirez
Front raises are only good if you're rehabing from an injury. Worthless exercise otherwise, just press more
Honestly just press more. It's not such a huge volume of muscle used so the fatigue is not a big deal, unless you're close to your 1rm (that will blast your entire body, the whole thing). Keep it in the 8-15 range, try to always progress either the weight or the reps (even by a tiny amount), add a set each session until you see a drop in performance, train often (3 times a week or more)
Brandon Hernandez
Omly dumb apes do this move
Bentley Gomez
I wonder if you can do reverse overhead press, maybe while upside down with a cable so you always have tension
Lucas Reyes
Beginner lifter.
I do not have access to cables.
I do (floor) dumbbell flys.
Scooby says I should really fell tension in my chest, but most of the tension I feel is in my anterior deltoids.
Am I doing it wrong?
Plz help.
Brody Richardson
If you have cables in your disposal why be upside down? What the fuck do you mean, anyway? Pullups?
Obviously. Retract your shoulders. But dumbbell flies is a really sub par exercise. As a beginner you should focus on barbell bench if you can, if not dumbbell bench. If you don't have heavy enough weights for that, even pushups can be preferable.
A couple of good exercises are better than 6 okay ones. You get more quality volume and it's easier to progress. There's a reason why beginner programs stick to the basic compounds.