Shoulders exercises

About Shoulders

Shoulders consists of three specific area, front part ( anterior ), side ( lateral ) and rear (posterior ), each of them can be separately exercised but in general all of them are activated when shoulder exercises are done. The front of the shoulders flex and rotate the arm inwards. Sides of the shoulders move your arms away from the body. The rear shoulders extend your arm and do the outwards rotation. Shoulders muscles are in big part when you are doing different swinging and throwing activities, like pitching and climbing.

About exercising Shoulders

There are plenty of different exercises for shoulders. Most of the exercises are different rotations and raises. The main thing when doing shoulder exercises is to do the exercises in controlled manner without swinging the weights up, this way you make sure that your shoulder muscles are really delivering the power needed for lifting the weight.

• Arnold Dumbbell Press
• Barbell Press Behind Neck-Standing
• Barbell Snatch
• Bent Over Side Lateral-Low-Pulley Machine
• Cuban Press
• Dumbbell Lying One Arm Rear Lateral Raise
• Dumbbell One Arm Shoulder Press
• Dumbbell Press-Seated
• Dumbbell Raise
• Dumbbell Raise Front
• Handstand Push-Ups
• Military Press-Standing
• One-Arm Incline Bench Lateral Raise
• One-Arm Side Laterals
• Plate Raise Front
• Power Clean
• Power Partials
• Push Press
• Rear Delt raise Lying
• Rear Delt Row-Barbell
• Reverse Flyes
• Seated Bent Over Rear Delt Raise
• Seated Military Press-Barbell
• Seated Side Lateral Raise
• Shoulder Press-Barbell
• Shoulder Press-Dumbbells
• Side Lateral Raise
• Standing Dumbbell Straight-Arm Raise Above Head
• Standing Front Barbell Raise Over Head
• Standing Low-Pulley Deltoid Raise
• Standing Palm-In One-Arm Dumbbell Press
• Standing Palms-In Dumbbell Press
• Two-Dumbbell Raise Front