Outer delts......

[new@gettinbig1]

I am in the process of trying to balance out my physique. My traps respond like a mofo..and are very well developed. I have been told by a few that I need to bring out my outer delts in order to keep in proportion etc. I do lateral raises, overhead press, yada yada.... but I was looking for some input from the wise ones of some killer things I can do to bring them out!! This seems to be my area of weakness.....help me out guys

[Monster]

Scrap the side raises for al practical intents. Pressing movements are the muscle buliders for delts.
If you dont feel them working when you do presses (dumbell, barbell, whatever), you can do light to medium weight side raises to pre-exhaust them, then do the pressing movement. But NEVER make raises the emphasis of a delt workout.
Then you can do things like making sure you work that bodypart first in the week, different intensity techniques, and examining your training split, to see if they are getting too much attention...
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[WarLobo]

Standing free weight barbell presses. HEAVY. Now the standing part let's you incorporate a cheating principal when your on the last few reps to really fry them. Often I will "bounce" the bar up on the last one or two reps to get a KILLER negative - spotter would help too. I can't stress the benefits of doing negatives for you gothic torture minded individuals – or Bbers.

One other refinement of the press is to start out going behind the neck. BUT ONLY LOWER THE BAR TO THE MIDDLE OF YOUR EAR. This will keep you from blowing out your shoulder. Then, say half way through, switch to the front, this will let you get a few more lbs up as other muscle groups assist the press.

My best is 10 reps of 185 on my third set - sort of clean on the last two [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

LAte

Lobo

[retropump]

Yeah I'd ditch the pansy side raises. Press, press, then maybe do some presses. Cleans and presses, standing presses with a little help from your legs at the end of each set, seated presses. A few upright rows are good to finish (or pre-exhaust). For a little excitement in your life (and some interesting stares) try doing upsidedown pressups against the wall (you know, with your hands on the ground and your feet straight up against the wall). Even if you only go down (slowly) and not back up again, you're still getting a superb negative rep out of it.

[new@gettinbig1]

Thanks for the replies! I train heavy I do presses with 50-55lbs and do 3 sets drop setting on the third to 25-30lbs till the burn out, with an assistance of a spotter forcing a few xtra reps. Some good ideas...thnku

[archive_FitnessChick]

Some of my favorite shoulder burners consist of heavy overhead presses, and try seated dumbell presses on a flat bench instead of the typical backed bench---plant your legs directly out to your sides and make sure your back is stabilized straight -do not round it out-press the weight exactly as if you were doing normal presses. It will work your whole shoulder better then normal.
I always start off with a compound movement-laterals follow. Or you could try supersetting pressing movements with laterals.

[steel27]

I suggest using dumbells. Even though using dumbells may not allow you to use as much weight as a barbell, i feel the extra work you must do to stabalize, balance and control the weight helps more in the long run that just pushing massive amounts of weight with a barbell. Just my 2cents.