Let's face it most people do not have the slightest clue on how to work the shoulder muscles. This is due to the fact that unlike the arm training, shoulder training is a bit complicated. When working the shoulders the most common injury that body builders sustain occurs on the rotator cuffs. Basically this occurs due to vast volume of pressing i.e. bench press, incline press, overhead press to name but a few, and very little volume of work for the opposing muscles on the upper back. To prevent such type of injury you begin first and foremost by trying to balance the training of your upper body. Thus for each set of pressing you undertake you should couple this with a set of rowing so as to balance the muscles of the shoulder girdle. This methodology will provide dual benefits in that ...

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Have you ever looked at a bodybuilder and tried to determine if he is natural or not? It’s often tough to distinguish. If the athlete has gotten into contest shape and managed to maintain most of his muscle mass, it can be a telltale sign. However, there is one visual giveaway that usually lets everyone in the room know who is juicing, and who is not – the “pop”. When a bodybuilder first uses anabolic steroids, the deltoids (shoulders) and quadriceps (thighs) are the first muscle groups to explode with growth. Natural bodybuilders very rarely have that “pop” in these muscle groups. They might have very strong shoulders and legs – but in order to attain the rounded, cannonball delts which “pop out”, they either have to have one-in-a-million genetics, or they have to enter the ...

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Shoulders are some of the toughest body parts to grow. Users of anabolic steroids often have the most impressive shoulders, as the quads and deltoids are the muscle groups which explode instantly with AAS use due to the high density of receptors in those muscle groups. Natural bodybuilders don’t have such an advantage, and have to find other ways to create some shoulder growth. Shock-training using compound sets is one way to do that. Let’s learn more! You’re going to need a decently-equipped home gym, or a fairly empty corner of the gym to complete compound training for shoulders. Start by choosing four exercises for shoulders. You’re going to want three movements that isolate the three heads, and a fourth which hits the trapezius muscle, which is typically trained with shoulders due to its close ...

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Whenever a competitive bodybuilder walks around in a public place like a grocery store or mall, there are three main parts of the physique, which draw immediate attention from curious onlookers. The first is the arms, obviously. Everyone looks for big arms. Second, provided you are wearing shorts, are the calves. Impressive calves instantly floor untrained people. Adding any amount of noticeable size to the lower legs requires long-term disciplined eating and training, and most barroom bodybuilders tend to ignore them. Finally, the average layman is impressed most by the thickness that well-developed rear deltoids (or shoulders) delivers to the entire upper body. From ten feet away, or a hundred feet away, the profile of a bodybuilder with large rear deltoids is unmistakable. He looks like a superhuman. Rear delt thickness ...

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It would be easy to feature a garden-variety delt article that talked about well-rounded training and the use of specialized sets, such as giant sets or drop sets, and it would correctly represent what it is to train delts. Let’s face it, lots of things work for lots of people at one time or another. But the problem with most routines is they can only take you so far before they cease working and you have to move on to something else. Which is why it’s a misconception to generalize and say that any change is enough to shock the body into growth again. Truth is, not just any change will do. It must be the right change. The other problem with most routines is the fact that 99% of them rarely address the actual mechanics at play within that muscle group (more on ...

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