The 3 Secrets to Building Shoulders that look like Boulders!
The secrets to building huge shoulders are pretty much the same for building just about any body part. Believe it or not it doesn’t really matter which exercises you use. The two most important factors for building huge shoulders or any body part for that matter are the intensity of training and the frequency of training.
Rule #1 to big shoulders: train your shoulders just one day per week.
If you don’t believe me just pick up a copy of Muscle & Fitness from back in the 1970′s and pick up a copy of muscle and fitness today. Your top of bodybuilders back in the day had huge shoulders but nothing like the muscle builders of today. They have taken muscle building to a whole new level building with massive shoulders working a body part just once per week.
Train one body part per day. This allows you to devote your mind completely to that one muscle part and that extra concentration and intensity will make all the difference in the world making your shoulders explode with growth.
Train shoulders day one, chest on day two, train back on day three, train biceps and triceps day four, front and back of thigh day five, calves day 6, and take day 7 completely off. You need that one day completely off so your nervous system can muscle as well as your muscles.
Rule #2 to building nice shoulders: Make your shoulder muscles cry uncle!
Take two of your favorite exercises for shoulders. Which once you choose does not really matter despite what muscle building articles from the nineteen seventies and eighties may have said. Your shoulders don’t know if you’re doing a military prowess for a lateral raises and they don’t care. Contracting a muscle is contracting a muscle. Beat the crap out of your shoulders muscles and they will be forced to grow in size and strength. It’s really that simple.
Personally my two favorite exercises for building shoulder size and strength is military press and standing lateral raises. Do 4 total sets for the first exercise 3 total for the second. The first two sets for your first exercise will be warm ups but you should not be using light weights used moderately heavy weight, something you could do for about ten to twelve reps. The idea here with the first two sets this to cram blood into the shoulders get the muscle fibers warmed up and ready for what’s coming next.
The third set is going to be your muscle building set for that exercise. Pack done enough weight that you can only do about five or six good reps. As I’ve said before the secret to building huge shoulders is intensity. When you can’t do anymore full reps at this point do a sort of jumping Jack motion and keep pumping the weight up and down. Even though you will only be able to get that weight up a few inches the key here is to FORCE your shoulder muscles to keep working. Make a commitment to yourself that no matter WHAT you’re gonna get twenty reps out even though most of them will just be partials. The idea here is to keep beating on your shoulder muscles until the muscle fibers are screaming agony and so are you.
If you have properly completed set number three pat yourself on the back and be proud of yourself. You have pushed yourself in a way that very few have the guts to do which is why very few have giant and muscular shoulders that you (and staring eyes) can be proud of.
Your fourth set keep the weight the same but don’t train with as much intensity as the previous set. instead just go to failure doing 5 or 6 reps.
For your second shoulder exercise use a weight that you can do for about eight to ten reps. Train to positive failure and again don’t go as crazy as you did on the third set of the first exercise (go to positive failure but no partials)
If you are serious about building nice large shoulders or any body part without having to resort to steroids or other drugs I highly recommend muscle building secrets by Jason Ferruggia.
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