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Shoulder Muscle Building Workout Routine
Building huge shoulder muscles seems to be very popular, maybe because no matter what you do its impossible to hide big shoulders. Big arms can be hidden by wearing a large coat during the winter months but huge shoulders can still be seen no matter what clothes are worn. The shoulders can also make the owner appear much wider giving that popular broad back look. Building big shoulders is easier than many believe, it just takes the correct exercises and the correct approach. There is no need to perform tons of shoulder exercises, sets or have to spend hours in the gym. The whole approach is use a few shoulder exercises to stimulate muscular growth, give the shoulder muscle time to rest and recover, and provide the muscles with plenty of muscle building nutrition and energy so they can grow. Training the shoulder muscles The shoulder muscles are used during so many different exercises that they receive secondary stress from all pressing movements, and pulling exercises. Examples are bench presses and rowing movements which train the chest and back respectively. For this reason there is no need to train the shoulders with loads of exercises. The best ones to choose for building large shoulder muscles are the very basic movements, these will place direct stress on the individual heads of the shoulders. The shoulder muscles are made up of three heads:
The anterior or front head is involved in all pressing movements. The medial head helps raise the arms to the sides as in the sign of a cross! The posterior head helps draw the arms backwards, they are involved in any pulling movements. You may hear some people say that behind-the-neck press helps develop the back shoulder head, this is NOT true, both front and behind neck presses stress the front head or anterior shoulder muscle. Below is a shoulder workout that I use regularly.
Shoulder workout
Barbell Shoulder Press Parallel bar dips (elbows in by sides) Bent raises
The parallel dips are a chest exercise but if the elbows are drawn in by the sides during the movement it helps stress the anterior shoulder head more. These are difficult exercises for a beginner so they should be done with the guidance of a qualified instructor! The dumbell raises can be eliminated until progress starts to slow, then shock the shoulder muscles by adding them to the workout for additional shoulder growth. Its important to remember that the shoulder may become over-trained if you perform too many sets and/or exercises, don't forget they receive lots of stress from many other exercises so concentrate on quality not quantity when attempting to develop large shoulder muscles. Its essential that beginners start any shoulder workout with light weights, attempt to build the poundage up gradually. Remember when you increase your strength you must decrease the frequency of workouts, for example, if you double your strength by working shoulders three times per week then reduce it to twice per week if strength gains stop.
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