Shoulder Day

 It’s Thursday and you have nothing to do, so what are you going to do? You’re going to go pig out at buffalo wild wings by yourself because there’s a good deal on boneless chicken wings. But before you go, you realise its shoulder day today so buffalo wild wings will have to wait. I know you’re disappointed, but those scrawny looking shoulders won’t build themselves and that summer body won’t magically appear!

You should know the drill by now, that treadmill misses you and wants your acquaintance for at least 5 minutes. Because it’s shoulder day, while you’re running exaggerate shoulder movement to get ready for some lifting. Now that you’ve warmed them up, get to your nearest dumbbell rack and start doing your military press. Now if you are not comfortable with dumbbell’s yet because they seem a little too complex, head over to the military press shoulder machine. Now essentially all you do is put the dumbbells on your lap, then raise them to shoulder height by using your thighs as a lift mechanism. After that you push up until 

they touch and bring them back down to shoulder height again. Repeat the motion 10 times for your warm up set, then continue to do this with heavier weights until you rep out at the fourth set. The next workout is called lateral raises, when you put the dumbbells in front of your thighs with “elbows slightly bent, hip and knees slightly bent as well”. You then “raise  your  upper arms to sides until elbows are shoulder height’’. Lower and repeat that motion until you finish your set’’Link 2. Proceed to do all four sets like the last exercice. I also like to do front raises and seated lateral raises (go to link 2 for explanation). Finally to finish off my workout, I like to do shoulder shrugs to workout my traps. You grab two dumbbells and place them in front of your thighs and raise them by using your shoulders, lower them after a quick break and repeat. There should be different machines that allow you to do this at the gym without using dumbbells as well. Do four sets and you finished your shoulder workout.

Congratulations on finishing your shoulder workout and keep up the good work. “Fit is not a destination. It is a way of life”   

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/DeltoidLateral/DBLateralRaise.html1  1.

http://www.dumbbell-exercises.com/exercises/shoulders/#8  2.

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