[quote]Professor X wrote:
kickureface wrote:
i dont know a ton about bodybuilding, but wouldn’t the barbell military press get you pretty damn far? from resting on delts to lockout, or a little higher to start. its the movement that allows the most poundage on the shoulders
Overhead presses are for anterior delts. I think you need to learn a little more about bodybuilding.[/quote]
Hi there, i have 3 Shoulder Days a week in the program i do… i do 2 Standing and 1 Seated Military Press… do you have another good exercise instead of one of them so if they only work 1 area…
And is the seated or standing better for the Military Press ?
3 shoulder days? I don’t know, but I’d say you don’t know how to train them if you are able to do that 3 times per week. Try it perhaps once every 5 days or a week. And IMHO the seated is better, or at least I can stress my shoulders more on them…
[quote]Vejne wrote:
3 shoulder days? I don’t know, but I’d say you don’t know how to train them if you are able to do that 3 times per week. Try it perhaps once every 5 days or a week. And IMHO the seated is better, or at least I can stress my shoulders more on them… [/quote]
[quote]Professor X wrote:
kickureface wrote:
i dont know a ton about bodybuilding, but wouldn’t the barbell military press get you pretty damn far? from resting on delts to lockout, or a little higher to start. its the movement that allows the most poundage on the shoulders
Overhead presses are for anterior delts. I think you need to learn a little more about bodybuilding.[/quote]
Wouldn’t ear-level dumbbell presses and BTN barbell presses bit the side AND front delt more? I like to press ear level and BTN so that side delts get hit more. I was watching a vide of Levrone BTN pressing and he explains that that’s why he does it.
Alot of us say “NO” to upright rows due to shoulder inpingement. What it means is you force the shoulder to move through an unnatural motion and cause impingement in the joint. What it means is while you are young or don’t have that much time on the movement, you are fine - but when you get older or put more time on the movement, you will have issues. Shoulder issues in this case. I don’t do them anymore.
You’ll start to see the middle head if you get enough mass in your delts and are lean enough. Lateral raises or machine laterals do a good job, but like some of the posters said that the traps or front delts could take a lot of the load.
[quote]ready wrote:
rrjc5488 wrote:
In one of the articles a while back, one of the authors suggested doing lateral raises with your thumbs pointed down to isolate the medial delt better. How much it helps, I don’t know, but I guess it’s worth a shot.
I just read that article a few weeks ago.
The Delt Triad: Round Shoulders Fast
by Dr. Clay Hyght
I have trouble “feeling” my shoulders work too but the delt triad really helped me. Also doing laterals with my thumbs down fixed a shoulder joint problem i was having while i was doing laterals and for me it made the exercise work more.
Also i dont know if this was already mentioned but i recently learned of an exercise called L-laterals, some say it gives amazing growth to you medial delts. Might be worth checking out. I’ve never tried it. Has anyone here tried it or have an opinion on it?