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Leaning Lateral Raise: Target Deltoids & Upper Back Muscles
While you can build massive shoulders with nothing but overhead presses, if you want to develop better muscle shape, you also need to include lateral raises…
Shoulders Exercises
Step-by-step shoulders exercise guides: setup, form cues, muscles worked and variations for each movement.
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Arm Circles: Strengthen Your Deltoids and Upper Body Muscles
Skipping warm-up is a common mistake among beginner and advanced lifters. Warm-up exercises help loosen your muscles and prime your joints, lowering the risk of injury…
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Shoulder Press Machine: Target Deltoids & Triceps Effectively
Broad shoulders have been a symbol of strength and toughness since time immemorial. Wide shoulders can also help accentuate your V-taper by making your waist look…
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Egyptian Lateral Raise: Target Your Deltoids & More!
Do you want big, round, and broad shoulders that fill out your t-shirt, will earn you praise on the beach, and make you look like Superman?…
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Machine Lateral Raise: Target Deltoids & Traps for Growth
What do Superman, Batman, the Incredible Hulk, Thor, and most other macho superheroes have in common? All of them have round, big, and full shoulders. You’ll…
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Bird Dog Rows: Strengthen Your Back, Core, and Glutes!
Lack of time can be a major barrier to exercising regularly. After all, even a simple workout can be very time-consuming. One way to make your…
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Reverse Pec Deck Fly: Target Your Upper Back Muscles Effectively
Folks that have tried nailing a headshot on a head glitch or a constantly moving enemy (in Call of Duty, obviously) would agree that it can be…
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The Ten Best Rope Climb Alternatives
When I was a young Royal Marine Commando, much of our physical training revolved around rope climbing. In fact, one of the fitness tests Commandos have…
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Pike Push-Ups: Target Your Deltoids and Build Upper Body Strength
The push-up (or press-up for our British readers) is the most popular and widely performed exercise on the planet. Almost everyone who works out has done…
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Power Up Your Shoulders: Band Shoulder Press Guide
If you want to build cannonball delts at home with limited equipment, we highly recommend the shoulder press (with bands). Training bands can provide as much…
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Reverse Pec Deck: Muscles Worked, Form, and Alternatives
The reverse pec deck, also called the reverse fly machine, trains shoulder horizontal abduction with a fixed machine path. The posterior deltoid is the main…
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Unlock Flexibility: Master the Rear Deltoid Stretch Today!
Stretching a muscle effectively requires just as much attention to detail as training it. All too often, people think they’re getting a great stretch, when, in…
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15 Best Shoulder Isolation Exercises For Bigger and Peeled Deltoids
Ask a rookie lifter or a gym bro about the best shoulder exercises, and they’ll probably point you toward compound exercises like military and Arnold presses.…
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10 Effective Incline Bench Press Alternatives
As every bodybuilder knows, if you want to develop the best possible physique, you need to train your muscles with a variety of exercises and hit…
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The 9 Best Close Grip Bench Press Alternatives
If you want to build bigger, stronger triceps, the close (or narrow) grip bench press is hard to beat (1). Unlike many triceps isolation exercises, this…
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8 Best Cable Rear Delt Exercises
The rear deltoids are a lagging muscle group for most people. Located on the back of your shoulders, the rear delts are often out of sight,…
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Ultimate Devil Press: Full-Body Workout for Strength & Tone
It’s hard to believe that CrossFit has been around for over two decades. What was initially labeled a workout fad soon became a fitness phenomenon, and…
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Incline Bench Cable Row: Target Your Back and Biceps Effectively
Variety, they say, is the spice of life. That expression holds true when talking about the food you eat, your circle of friends, your job, and,…
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Wall Push-Ups: Strengthen Your Chest, Arms, and Core Muscles
There are over 600 muscles in the human body, and each one works in synergy with its neighbor to control your movements. Muscles are made of…