Bodybuilding Workout Tips For Bigger Muscles

I’ve been blessed with some pretty big and round shoulders that have come as the result of many a bodybuilding workout and because of that I get asked a lot at the gym what I do for my shoulders. Most of the time I flip on the guy asking and ask him to tell me what he does in his deltoid bodybuilding workout because this way I feel I can much better and much more easily assess the situation.

More often then not here’s what I find in deltoid bodybuilding workouts and why I feel these programs are ineffective and incomplete for complete deltoid development. Most of the time the workouts consisted of raises and presses and nothing much more and the worst part is that all exercises targeted the middle and front deltoids and included no exercises for the rear delt. The result of this type of workout is strength imbalance in the shoulders and that makes them less stable.

That loss of stability is bad for a lot of reasons but mainly because you increase your risk for injury in an area that’s already highly susceptible to injury. Dislocations and rotator cuff injuries are common for bodybuilders so it’s important to do everything you can to prevent them and training your rear delts in your bodybuilding workout is one such way.

What may bother you more then the added susceptibility to injury is that not training your rear delts will also result in decreased strength in important lifts such as the bench press, the shoulder press and practically every other upper body lift.

If you’ve hit a plateau in your bodybuilding workout and you’ve noticed that your upper body lifts have plateaued I would strongly recommend you start training your rear delts. You plateau because you can only lift as much as your shoulders can support and if you notice your rear delts are at the bottom of lifts like the bench press and the shoulder press.