Should you be new to a quality shoulder workout regimen, you’ll discover that these muscles develop rather quickly compared to other areas of your body. However, don’t take that to mean shoulder exercises are easy. On the contrary, a decent number of men dread shoulder day at the gym, as the workout can get quite intense…presuming you’re doing it properly.
Pull-ups are a popular compound bodyweight exercise that targets multiple muscle groups, especially the back, shoulders and biceps, which makes them an essential part of any training routine. They’re also very versatile – once you’ve mastered the regular pull-up, you can experiment with the grip width in order to achieve specific results. That being said, the target muscle of both
Building an impressive, muscular set of upper arms is usually at the top of most lifter’s priorities at the gym. The biceps and triceps are considered a “showy” muscle group and there isn’t a single serious bodybuilder out there who doesn’t want to develop these muscles to their full potential. In this article, I’m going to give you a no-fluff,
Shoulder shrugs target your upper trapezius muscles, also known as the traps. Located on your upper back and across the back of your shoulders, big, strong traps can be useful in contact sports such as wrestling, football, hockey, boxing and rugby as they provide essential support for your neck, which is an important factor for injury prevention. From an aesthetic
The Benefit Of Building Bigger Traps: One of the most important and beneficial reasons to build your traps is that, properly developed traps will help to stabilise and move the spine whenever movement is performed. This could be everyday activities or most importantly, whilst training. Whenever the spinal column is required to not only support heavy loads, but move them,
Even if you are new, you would have known about this extremely common exercise performed by bodybuilders and average trainers. However, the world's‘ deadlift’ can seem extremely daunting. You will understand that ‘deadlifting’ is one of the must-do exercises to get you closer to looking in great shape. The deadlift can benefit all types of fitness levels, but also be
If your training lacks sufficient diversity, you will accumulate the drawbacks and habituate to the benefits. Interestingly enough, even the concept of training diversity has its own set of benefits and drawbacks. For example, with strength athletes, insufficient continuity will negatively impact strength gains, as every time you rotate your exercise plan you have to expend a lot of energy readjusting to the
If you had to condense the ideals of strength training into just three bullet points, what would they be? You could say "big bench, big squat, big dead," but I prefer to think a little more big picture, like this; Train hard Lift heavy Stay (relatively) pain-free To live up to all three points, you need a flexible approach. Staying
Together is an eight week plan created to prompt overall shoulder size and width. This is broken down into two phases, with each one maximising a specific aspect of muscle growth. In the first phase, which comprises weeks one through to four, you will be using heavy weights with lower reps and high intensity techniques, such as: Negative reps. Forced reps. Extended sets. Drop
With all the attention paid to building up your pecs, your front delts are probably quite formed too. Plus to further the illusion of a small waist, you are probably doing all kinds of middle-delt moves. Your rear delts, the ones you can't see in the mirror, are so underdeveloped that you'd a need a microscope to spot them, this is what
