How to Build Figure Competitor Shoulders
By Karen Sessions NSCA-CPT
Author of "Figure Competition Secrets"Well-built delts give your physique balance and proportion by giving your upper body width making your waist look smaller. Creating well-developed, figure competitor shoulders is intimidating. But,
there is no reason you cannot build masterful shoulders to improve your total physique and enter afigure competition.
Shoulder exercises for size and strength can be rather difficult and many lifters give up way too soon in their attempt. The shoulder consists of a lot of fibers, and a lot of slow twitch fibers. With this in mind, be certain to focus on endurance deltoid exercises in the early months of your deltoid development.
To construct head-turning figure competitor shoulders start your delt workout with a compoundexercise. The muscle-building shoulder exercise is any over-head pressing movement involving a barbell, dumbbells, a machine, or cables. Overhead presses work all of the heads of the shoulder at the same time.
To provide your shoulders a nice cap, add in some lateral shoulder work. Lateral dumbbell raises advance shoulder proportion and help tailor your upper physique. When doing lat raises don't go extremely heavy. This is a delicate exercise and can cause injury if you lift too heavy.
To provide front shoulder growth, toss in front shoulder raises. Front shoulder raises can be done with a barbell, dumbbells, a plate, or cables. You can add detail to this movement with a dumbbell with a hammer grip, where your thumbs are pointing up.
Working your posterior delts is crucial, as well. To add muscle size and strength to your back shoulders do rear deltoid rows. To do this movement, merely grasp a barbell with a pronated grip. Be sure your arms are a bit wider than shoulder-width apart, however avoid over-exaggeration. Pull the bar toward your collar bone and contract the shoulder blades together. When you release, make sure to get the full stretch at the bottom of the movement.
Another posterior deltoid movement a lot of people do is the formal bentover lateral raises, which are very effective. With this exercise bend over with a dumbbell in each hand, lifting each one from your side and contract the shoulder blades together. If you want to jazz things up and genuinely bring those posterior shoulder muscles into action, try rotating your hand grip on the dumbbells. Rather than having a pronated grip use a palms facing up grip. You can really notice the effects with this small hand rotation.
You can have the most INTENSE and ADVANCED figure competiton workouts ever by implementing the concepts suggested in "Figure Competition Secrets". This EXTREME Figure Prep Guide shows you exactly how to diet and weight train to win your figure competition.
Learn more about how to create a Figure Pro's Winning physique in "Figure Competition Secrets"!
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About the Author
My name is Karen Sessions and I am a nationally qualified life-time natural female bodybuilder, multi-certified fitness instructor, specialist in performance nutrition, and success coach.
I teach people Just Like You how to transform their bodies, get in shape, and compete in figure and bodybuilding competitions. When you have the correct information you can have total confidence and turn your dreams into reality... and I can help transform YOUR body. I have helped THOUSANDS of clients reach their figure competition goals and I can help you, too www.FigureCompetitionSecrets.com
