Best Shoulder Exercises & Workouts - Deltoid Exercises to build wide shoulders

Looking for the best shoulder exercises and workouts to widen your shoulders ? Check these amazing deltoid exercises that will build you so wide, you'll have to turn sideways when you walk through doors.

Broad, round and striated Shoulders. Am I painting a too good to be true picture? Hell no! Call them Warrior, Shoulders boulder delts or cannonballs, they all mean the same. Muscular shoulders are the hallmark of a bodybuilder and I will show you { exercises }  how to build raw muscle mass in the shoulder region.
 

A Key factor in building delts is the understanding of shoulder joint in brief and how the muscles act to bring this awesome shoulder girdle { joint } to move, making it the most versatile joint in the human body.
 

Best Shoulder Exercises

1. Seated Shoulder Press

2. Military Press Exercise  and  Machine Presses.

3. Lateral Raises  and  Front Dumbbell Raises

4. Dumbbell Shoulder Press

5. Arnold Press
 

Other optional Shoulder Exercises

1. Upright Rows

2. Bent over Lateral Raise

3. Lying Side Lateral Raises

4. Push Press

4.  Cable laterals and Cable Lateral Raises. AlsoBent Over Cable Laterals andOne Arm Cross Cable Laterals

5.  Bent-over cable laterals

6. Shrugs andDumbbell Shrugs

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Introduction to Shoulder Muscles
 

The basic function of shoulder muscles is to rotate and lift the arm.
 

Nothing gives a better look than broad, round, well-developed shoulder muscles. Shoulders are the most widely noticeable part of anyone's physique. Well developed shoulders demand attention.

Shoulder Muscles

Front Deltoid head assists the pectoral muscles in pushing movements and hence they get a workout every time you do a chest exercise.

Middle Delts are what gives your shoulders a broad appearance. These are primarily exercised in Lateral Raises.

Rear Delts or posterior shoulder heads are small muscles and used in exercises like the Bent over lateral raises.

No discussion on Shoulder muscles will be complete without Rotator Cuff Muscles.

Comprised of 4 small muscles they have high injury risk when you lift weights more than you can handle. So exercises like lateral raises should be performed with perfect form and sub maximal weights.

Shoulder joint being mutli-involved is prone to injury and therefore every shoulder workout should be performed in a controlled manner and with a excellent form.

You shoulder can be a dream or nightmare depending on how much of the training tips you follow, as mentioned here.

Please do not mis-understand me. I am only speaking from experience.
 

When it comes to best shoulder exercises power moves takes the show. Power exercises like clean and press and heavy upright rows will build strong muscular shoulder muscles.
 

Remember shoulder muscles are involved in many other movements like chest press, Deadlifts and bent-over rows and therefore strong shoulder muscles are an absolute requirement to go all out on such moves.
 

There are 3 basic exercises you should perform as each will hit a particular area of shoulder more than others.

Front Deltoids -Clean and Press - A Killer Deltoid Exercise

Middle deltoids -Lateral Raises - Build your lateral heads for wider shoulders.

Read deltoids -Bent-over laterals - Build strong rear delts for a great rearview.

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Although these will build shoulder muscles from all angles I will also list a few others exercises which will add variation to your workouts making them more fun.

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