Building bigger shoulders can often come at a price if you choose the wrong shoulder exercises. In this video, I show you one of the absolute worst shoulder exercises you can do to build your shoulders. It includes an actual demonstration of how the rotator cuff can become impinged by simply placing the bar in the wrong position on a shoulder press.
The biggest mistake people can make is to confuse the fact that they don’t get pain from a shoulder exercise with that making it a good exercise for your shoulders. Couldn’t be further from the truth. The fact is, 90 percent of all shoulder injuries come as a result of overuse and chronic breakdown. There are very few acute injuries that come from doing one single rep.
Doing the same bad exercise over and over, rep after rep, workout after workout is the recipe for almost all shoulder injuries.
In past videos I’ve talked about how bad the upright row is for your shoulders as well. It makes naming the worst exercise a bit tough. The problem is, there are a lot of bad shoulder exercises. Perhaps more than any other joint, due to the high degree of mobility it has with a low degree of stability. If you want to build big shoulders you need to do the right exercises that won’t cause you to breakdown. We all know, being injured prevents you from training and that won’t help you to add size to your shoulder muscles.
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Pete Story really like this guy seems to know his shit
David Jenko Jenkins
Joey Mclaughlin
Well fuck that’s handy
Finally some useful information on fitness instead of articles blaming steroids instead of birth defects
I wish I saw this 2 months ago! Now I can’t do bench presses or do lat pull downs
Same here ?
go see a physio, chiro and your doctor and start doing rotator cuff exercises
Peter Tremendous
Done
Never ever do presses or pull downs behind the neck..basics. Was a good explanation and very true. Have had both of my shoulders operated on for impingement syndrome. Make me rethink full rom lateral movements to the side as well
Ahmed Ali be careful bro
I still do them but lite weight and strict
I’ve been saying this for years. I train my son this way. We go even further with the shoulder press and do an “A” press utilizing the deltoid muscle and eliminating hitting the triceps so much
His videos are the best..he breaks down the science of all the the things I’ve learned about training and then some! Mire of these, please!
Paul Kospetas