XChrisX

I get pretty bored with delt training and need a new routine. Let's see how you guys blast your delts! ress:

Malley

I dont do my delts per say. I have seen many routines where people absolutly smash their shoulders with presses and raises and uprights.....and so on. And at the end of the day they are still upset with their results. Shoulders tend to grow easy for most. Any pressing you do develops the front delts, so I wouldnt even do front raises it seems like a huge waste to me. I rarely do side raises either. I prefer to do some bent over raises because it really strengthens up your upper back which results in many benefits: 1. Strengthen bench 2. Helps stabilize and keep from injuring your shoulder 3. Helps with proper posture. And thats just to name a few.

Most shoulder routines are geared for the front delts and I think thats where people go wrong with developing shoulder routines. Most people dont realize how important it is to develop a strong upper back. And by neglecting things like bent over rows and movements that develop those rear delts they are leaving their body open for musculature imbalances. I would pick an exercise that is compound (some type of press), an exercise that hits the side delts (Obviously side raises), and the rear delts (Reverse peck deck or bent over laterals). In this way it just seems like things run together a bit more smoothly. Its not normally the exercises itself that makes you grow anyways, its the extra stressors you put on yourself. Varying your loading patterns is the most important.

ReproMan

Much of the same here. I tend to stick to the upper/lower splits so I typically break it up by movements.

A full on "chest/shoulders/triceps" day might look like this for me:

BB Bench
DB Shoulder Press
Dips
Bent Over Lateral Raises
Skullcrushers/pushdowns

Or what I'm doing now might look like this:
Pullups
Military Press
Bent Over DB Rows
DB Flat Bench
Curls
Skulls/pushdowns

Not a ton of direct delt work here either.

digitor

I 100% agree with Malley on what is required to grow the delts. Genetically deficient shoulders aren't necessarily going to grow by hitting them with an excessive number of exercises.

XChrisX

Thanks for the tips guys...My split is usually chest/tris, back/bis, delts/abs, quads/hams. I just have a hard time getting too excited for this. However I do make sure millitary and dumbell press is a staple in my workout, as well as side laterals, shruggs, etc... Trying to get them basketballs up there like my boy RUHL!

Malley

You would be better suited with something like this:

Day1:Chest/Delts/Tris
Day2:Lower
Day3:Back/Biceps

wala

I did a mean shoulder workout last night, I've only just changed to that style and will be doing it for 4 weeks only. I have to agree with Malley tho, most of my shoulder growth has come from doing push/pull routines and upper/lower splits.. NOT from just working shoudlers in one workout for months on end.

But I believe you should change things up for ways you wouldnt normally do

Thats why the next 4 weeks i'm doing body part splits.. then it will be back to my usual routines

PWGriffin

sigh @ this thread.

XChrisX

Thanks for the input, best advice yet! LOLS

Gazhole

I agree with what Malley and Repro have said.

As long as you get a good balance between Vertical and Horizontal Pressing (Overhead Press and Bench Press for example) and make sure you do a hell of a lot of Rowing, your shoulder development wont only look great, but youll keep yourself free of injury an muscular imbalances.

1quick1

My shoulder routine is

3-5 sets of standing military press.

1-2 sets of bent over side raises

Clean

Well said man. I would put shoulders in the same category as arms, some can do chins, rows, pull ups, and so on and their arms still may be small so for ppl who's shoulders are small i feel isolation maybe needed to balance out the body. Also there are several strength coach's who feel a lack of OHP can cause shoulder problems.