Best shoulder workout routines

          If you want big, strong, round delts that pop, then stay till the end of this article.

          No matter how big your arms, chest or back are but an upper body is incomplete without well develop shoulders.

            The reality of anyone who says building impressive shoulders is very easy is '' lying ''. It takes a lot of work, the right work and patience. It can be done through. And this article is going to show you how.

          I have divided this article also into three parts :-
1. Mistakes in training shoulder workout

2. Keys of an effective shoulder workout

3. Best shoulder workout routines

     So, lets first take a quick look at the anatomy of the shoulders. So we understand what we are trying to achieve in our shoulder workouts and then we'll talk about how to built size and strenght.

UNDERSTANDING THE SHOULDERS ANATOMY

      Your shoulders are comprised of three major muscles known as :-

1. Anterior deltoids & front shoulders
2. Laterial deltoids & side shoulders
3. Posterior deltoids & rear shoulders

Here's how they look :

        Its very important to develop all three heads of this muscle because if one is lagging, it will be painfull obvious.

       In most cases, the side and rear deltoids need the most work because the front deltoids do get trained to some degree in a good chest workout and no-body skips chest workout day.

      Now, let us take the three important part of this article...

MISTAKES IN TRAINING SHOULDER WORKOUT

1. Focusing on wrong shoulder exercises:-
          Many people focus too much on machines and isolation exercises, which are of secondary importance in building big round delts.

2. Focusing on high rep training :-
          This mistake will stunt the growth of every major muscle group in the body and is particularly detrimental in a smaller muscle group like the shoulders.

3. Copying bodybuilders :-
       This is the most typical reason why most of the men do these routines. Watching the bodybuilders on youtube and copying them will never work. First of all, they are on drugs or steroids that they won't tell you. So the people who are natural, won't work for you.

4. More is better :-
          This is the very common thinking of men, that working out more will help to gain muscle more, which is actually false.

KEYS OF AN EFFECTIVE SHOULDER WORKOUT

1. Proper rest between shoulder routines :-

         One of the biggest mistakes in shoulders is that not giving proper rest to them. The best way is to split your shoulders into two groups. Do your front and side shoulders with chest workout and rear shoulder with back workout. So if you are going for twice a body per week then this split will give proper rest to shoulders. This will help them to grow bigger.

2. Train your shoulders two times per week :-
     
          All researches looking at training frequency shows that a higher frequency (2-3 times per week) is more effective then a lower frequency (once per week) and i personally do twice per week shoulders workout.

2. Do 3-4 shoulders exercise per workout:-
            Rather then doing every shoulders exercise in existence, stick with 3-4 shoulders exercise per workout. Always start with the weaker part first and isolation in last.

3.Rest 1-4 min between sets most of the time:-
           Instead of resting 1 min between every set because its what leads to biggest shoulder pump possible, use longer rest period (2-3 min) between sets of your primary exercise, then shorter rest period (60-90 sec) between sets of isolation exercises.

4.Use the 5-15 rap range:-
           Instead of only doing the stereotypical 8-10 reps for every set of every exercise. Going as low as 5 rep and as high as 15 will be ideal for generating muscle growth.

  6. Make sure your diet support your goals:-
           The best shoulder workout routine in the world isn't going to work, if your diet isn't designed to support it.


BEST SHOULDERS WORKOUT ROUTINES

BEGINNERS

ROUTINE 1-
Military press                     4 sets of 15-6 reps
Dumbell press                    3 sets of 12-6 reps
Side laterial raise              3 sets of 15-10 reps
Rear delt raise                   3 sets of 15-10 reps

Shrugs                                 3 sets of 12-6 reps

ROUTINE 2-

Dumbell press                  4 sets of 15-6 reps

Side laterial raise            4 sets of 15-10 reps

Rear delt rise                   3 sets of 15-10 reps

Parallel bar dips              3 sets of max reps

Shrugs                               3 sets of 12-6 reps

ADVANCED

ROUTINE 1-

Side laterial raise           5 sets of 20-10 reps

Rear delt raise                3 sets of 15-10 reps

Dumbell press                3 sets of 12-6 reps

Front raise                      3 sets of 15-10 reps

Shrugs                             3 sets of 12-6 reps

ROUTINE 2-

Dumbell press                  4 sets of 15-6 reps

Side laterial rise } super 3 sets of 15-10 reps

Front raise plate} set       3 sets of 15-10 reps

Rear delt rise                    3 sets of 15-10 reps

Upright row } super        3 sets of 15-10 reps

Shrugs           } set             3 sets of 12-6 reps

SPLIT ROUTINE 1-

Chest

Dumbell press                    4 sets of 12-6 reps

Side laterial raise              4 sets of 15-10 reps

Front dumbell raise          3 sets of 15-10 reps

Back

Rear delt raise                  4 sets of 15-10 reps

Shrugs                                4 sets of 15-6 reps

SPLIT ROUTINE 2-

Chest

Dumbell press                   4 sets of 15-6 reps

Side laterial rise } super  3 sets of 15-10 reps

Front plate raise} set       3 sets of 15-10 reps

Back

Rear delt raise                   4 sets of 15-10 reps

Upright row } super         3 sets of 15-10 reps

Shrugs           } set              3 sets of 15-6 reps

 This pic of mine have seperation in three shoulders head. I have achieved it by split shoulder routine.

        Now, i have covered mostly all about shoulders that you need to know and build strong round shoulders. I personally suggestion you guys to do split routine if you workout twice per body week. You will get amazing results. All the best 💪