3 Things You Don't Know About Your Shoulders

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1. The last place your body deposits fat is in the shoulder, making it one of the easiest muscles to define. If your shoulders still don't pop after using the workouts on this page, take it as a sign that you need to focus more on fat loss.

2. You may feel tight now, but you were born with tremendous shoulder flexibility. Unlike the hip joint, which is anatomically similar to the shoulder, the shoulder socket is extremely shallow. This allows the arm to move freely in all directions. Do arm circles before your workout and stretch after your workout to maintain your range of motion.

3. The shoulder is the most unstable joint in your body. As a result, weight-room mishaps are common-place. Protect yourself by refining your bench-press technique--poor form causes more shoulder injuries than any move. To stave off trouble, keep your shoulder blades back and down as you raise and lower the weight.

Your shoulders assist in many moves for your chest. So training them after your chest workout keeps your muscles under tension longer, a strategy shown to increase size. And it takes only one workout a week.


A few wrokouts to try:

Do two sets of 10 repetitions of the dumbbell shoulder press and dumbbell front raise Then do two sets of eight reps of the accelerated side raise Finish with two sets of eight reps of the cable reverse fly and dumbbell Cuban pressRest 45 seconds between sets. Perform this workout once a week after your chest routine

As part of your total-body routine, perform one set of the push press, dumbbell shoulder press or barbell high-incline bench press. Without resting, do a set of squats. Next, perform the accelerated side raise, cable single-arm side raise , or cable reverse fly with lunges. That's a circuit. Do a total of three circuits, resting for 60 seconds between circuits. Complete eight to 10 reps of each exercise and choose different moves each time you train.

Twice a week, perform the dumbbell shoulder press,dumbbell front raise, cable reverse fly , and dumbbell Cuban press. Do two sets of 10 to 12 repetitions of each move, resting for 60 seconds between sets.

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that good about the shoulders