10 Tricks for Bigger, Healthier Shoulders
Complete your physique with a mighty pair of cannonball delts.
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This sounds obvious but is often neglected. If your shoulders are inflamed or injured, training will be very difficult since there is hardly an exercise where the shoulders are not involved. Even barbell squats become difficult as it's hard to hold bar with a set of inflamed delts.
The main reason for shoulder injuries is a structural imbalance; meaning that most trainees are overdeveloped in the front part of the shoulder and too weak in the rear. This gives them a weird hunchback look and inflames the biceps tendon. The test for balanced shoulders are wall slides.
Stand with your back against the wall, bring your arms to shoulder height, while bending the elbows about 90 degrees. Now simply move your arms up and down along the body. You should feel the shoulder blades moving downward. If you cannot perform wall slides properly, because your arms are coming forward, you are too stiff which brings us to point #2.
This sounds obvious but is often neglected. If your shoulders are inflamed or injured, training will be very difficult since there is hardly an exercise where the shoulders are not involved. Even barbell squats become difficult as it's hard to hold bar with a set of inflamed delts.
The main reason for shoulder injuries is a structural imbalance; meaning that most trainees are overdeveloped in the front part of the shoulder and too weak in the rear. This gives them a weird hunchback look and inflames the biceps tendon. The test for balanced shoulders are wall slides.
Stand with your back against the wall, bring your arms to shoulder height, while bending the elbows about 90 degrees. Now simply move your arms up and down along the body. You should feel the shoulder blades moving downward. If you cannot perform wall slides properly, because your arms are coming forward, you are too stiff which brings us to point #2.
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