I'm confused, Does it work the front head of the shoulders or the middle(The part that makes your shoulders look wide) head of the shoulder?
Let me know. Thanks.
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The answer is going to be both but to different degrees based on your individual form in performing the lift. But overall the anterior head (front delt) is going to bear the brunt of the effort but the lateral head will also come into play to a varying degree depending on your form etc.
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12-29-2011, 01:32 PM #15
Frank have you seen this one??
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/glasscut1.htm
Watch the video, I am currently using his style on both front and lateral delt raises and prefer them to other styles.Was friends with Methuselah
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12-29-2011, 01:45 PM #16
Watching guys do this and as one who uses it in my mix, the biggest thing I see guys doing really wrong is recruiting just about every other part of their body to lift the weight.
A truism that is more abused with that exercise than just about another is "Work the muscle... dont lift the weight!"
They maneuver the weight at the end of their sets to recruit gravity, fulcrum points, back muscles, spotters, momentum...anything BUT the muscle groups they're intending to hit!
For mine, the anterior head bears the most followed by the lateral head and the rear gets SFA.
And the more upright you go the more the share occurs.
As for going behind the head....I, for one, would say DON T DO IT THAT WAY. For mine, from a bio-mechanical point of view - particularly if you are predisposed to shoulder girdle injury...as an exercise... its alien to load up the joint at that angle. And the heavier you go, the more stresses and strains (unnecessary, in my view) you bring to bear.
FWIW and IMO.http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=154678393
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12-29-2011, 03:55 PM #18
Yeah, I just saw it. Someone told me about it...
Wait wut... oh you did.
Good video, thanks.
I should start doing them seated; I have a tendency to "throw" them up. With palms facing back for lateral raises, even without weight, I felt a difference. With palms facing each other for front raises, I felt a difference, even without weight.
Doing them this way used less pecs (srsly); my chest is sore from last night, so I could feel the difference. Doing the movements Glass's way does indeed isolate the delts. For the Smith presses that's exactly how I do them... seated upright and my nose as a gauge for closeness. For the upright rows, I do them wide grip, but I come up higher, which is actually a high pull for the traps. I'll have to try all these from the video."Go home, have a beer and smash something. That's what I would do" - Unknown (but probably Thor).
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Yeah, I know there's a few exercises that I just keep light and work in the higher rep range. I did behind my head presses for years and now if I do them, I keep them on the lighter side. My shoulders can take front presses a lot better. Side laterals and upright rows are two other exercises I tend to stay light on.
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I find doing dumbbell shoulder press works my middle deltoids to a greater degree that using a barbell for shoulder press. I try not to extend the dumbbell in the up position to the point of engaging the triceps too much.
More direct training of the middle deltoids are dumbbell or cable side laterals.
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