shoulders

✔️Overhead Press

▪️If you wan’t to grow bigger and stronger shoulders, the Overhead Press is a great compound exercise to take you there!
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▪️It’s one of the best exercises for progressively overload your deltoids to improve size and strength in your shoulders.
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▪️You can do the exercise with either dumbbells or barbell, seated or standing.
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▪️When you perform it standing, you’re recruiting your Pectoralis (chest), Deltoids (shoulders), Triceps (arms), and Trapezius (upper back). But to stay balanced and upright, your Lower Back, Obliques, Serratus Anterior, Transverse Abdominal and Spinal Stabilizers are engaged.
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▪️Also, keep your Glutes and Abs engaged to press the weight up with stability.
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▪️Make sure you have enough shoulder mobility to perform this exercise correctly, otherwise you might compensate by overarching and hurt your back and shoulders.
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▪️A good solution is to add Wall Angels to your routine and foam roll your lats before Overhead Pressing.

🔹 The shoulders are one of my favorite body parts to workout on because it helps create an aesthetic physique.

🔹 Here is a simple breakdown of compound and isolated exercises for each delt .

🔹 Shoulder presses in the form of the Arnold press and overhead press target the entire shoulder, mostly the front and side delts. I recommend these exercises at the beginning of your workout.

🔹 After you can proceed to target each individual delt to correct any imbalances or areas where you want to achieve more gains.

🔹 Don’t forget your Rear Delts! This muscle is often ignored since they cant be seen in the mirror.

🔹 Neglecting your rear delts will cause you to end up with “rounded shoulders,” imagine a lump pointed forward. This appearance is due to the lack of rear delts which results in the image of an awkward lump.

🔹 You definitely don’t want that. So be sure to always include your rear delts so you can develop those 3D Boulder Shoulders!

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