Shoulder Building Exercises:
How To Build Massive Shoulders

Bodybuilders concentrate on developing muscles that lie in the chest area, arms, and usually include exercises for shoulder muscles along with the lower body. Before working on these shoulder muscles, it is necessary to know enough details about this muscle segment.

Deltoids are the main shoulder muscles that allow one to perform different hand movements. For instance, the anterior or front delts allow you to move the arm forwards. Similarly, the posterior or rear deltoid allows you to move the arm backwards, and the middle or medial deltoid allows you to extend the arm to the side.

It is recommended that bodybuilders who are beginning to develop these muscles do not exert a lot of pressure on their shoulders and only use lighter weights while performing workouts for shoulder muscles.

The deltoids are also used in exercises of the chest area and should be developed using isolated exercises as well. Exercises like seated dumbbell press, front lateral raise, and rear lateral flyes are used to target the medial head, front delts, and the rear delts respectively.

It is also suggested that beginners start out by doing 3 sets of shoulder workout exercises each of 10-15 repetitions and slowly increase the level of intensity as they progress to the intermediate level.

These shoulder building exercises are to be done in combination with other exercises that concentrate on different areas of the body. For instance, include exercises that target the biceps, back, and abs the first day, hamstrings, shoulders and abs the second day, quads, forearms, and calves the third day, triceps, chest, and abs the fourth day, and so on.

The principle is to distribute the focus on different areas of the body, while at the same time giving rest to the other groups of muscles. It is advisable to start with one set of exercises in the first couple of weeks and slowly increase one set each week to challenge the muscle a notch further.