Everyone knows about the bar-room muscles. These are the muscle groups trained by the bar-room bodybuilders, the phonies who only enter the gym with the purpose of acquiring big arms and chests. They don't worry about training back, legs, shoulders, or anything else. They just want to look big in their TapOut shirts to impress someone from the fairer gender in the gym. These muscles are perceived by desirable by society, but they are fairly common among people you see who train even just a small amount.

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For bodybuilders – particularly natural trainers – the shoulders are among the toughest areas to develop. Sure, you will occasionally run into a genetic freak that developed cannonball delts scratching his backside in the morning. However, for most of us, the shoulders are a very tough area to develop, and one that only sees success after years of dedicated and consistent training. Here are a few questions you should ask yourself if your shoulders aren’t up to par.

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Muscle confusion is a principle which seems to have fallen by the wayside in recent years. Most of the time, when we enter the gym, we have a pretty good idea what our routine will look like. We tackle the same several compound movements, and a few isolation movements. After all, there really aren’t that many different approaches one can take to exercise – there are only so many movements. We usually complete 6 to 12 repetitions of a movement, then rest for several minutes. Then we increase the weight by 10 to 20%, and we complete fewer repetitions. We do this several times for each exercise, and then we call it a day.

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