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Can't stress how important these exercises are! I spent years doing nothing but lat raises and military press for shoulders and then would go heavy on stuff like bench, dips and pull ups. Only took a few years before both my shoulders were torn and I've been struggling to get back for a long time now. Just finished up months of PT and while I've seen progress, things still just feel off. Can't bench without all sorts of bad feels. If you're reading this and you haven't screwed up your shoulders yet, make the exercises in this video a significant part of your routine and save your shoulders before its too late!

Matt "The Legend" Wenning making people stronger.!!

Always great content from Wenning strength!!! I expect nothing less!!

Straight to the point and not trying to force a sale! 👌 awesome!

Good post. Finally a guy who makes things simple

Thanks Matt! These exercises are really good because we can do it at home. Keep showing us home-exercises!

Great tips, for so long my bigger muscles supported all the imbalances and now that I’ve had atrophy in those, my rotators are feeling the struggle.

Underrated channel 😍😍😍

This channel…..more and more I’m appreciative. Thank you for such solid lessons.

I can verify that weak rotator cuffs can cause problems. Dealt with left shoulder pain for 4 months while trying different things. I never bench wide and always used triceps since the beginning. After a while, the pain got worse and I learned that my left shoulder was unstable. After 3 weeks of bamboo bar work and strengthening with dumbbells, pain is gone. I started with a 1lb plate bc it was weak and now I’m up to 10lbs.

Love this video. A lot of great information in 5 mins. Thank you.

Matt - I've been doing your Warmups for the past 8 weeks in addition to the tricep accessories , and in that time, my old 2RM's are now my 10RM's. In 8 weeks! This is after being at a year long plateau, close to giving up on heavy lifting. Your video about going really light on the dynamic effort day was a huge game changer. You helped me realize I was trying to go wayyy to heavy on the DE day. It's a hit to the ego doing speed work with 75 lbs, but I'm repping out 225 on bench for the first time in my life now, easily. didn't ever think I'd get there, so thank you so much. With that said, I just injured myself today during bench. I was doing a Max Effort day and working up to a heavy double. My pec felt a little sensitve, but this has always been the case when nearing the end of a wave and I've built up some fatigue. These are the days where I know there's a lot of fatigue built up, but I always PR. Anyways, I'm not sure if the pec is torn but it hurt like hell, and it wasn't even close to being an RPE10. It was the last warmup set. My question is, could you do a video on overcoming injury's that happen specifically on bench press? It would mean a lot. Your insight and knowledge is unparalleled in my opinion and it would really be a great help. Thanks again Matt and take care. -Jimmy *Edit I see you've already covered the topic, Currently watching it. This is why I'm a subscriber.

The Grandaddy of Biomechanics is here.

Great content. Thank you.

Been waiting for this one!!! I cut out OH press because of another video you posted, so I had no idea what else to throw on. Matt, you the best homey.

Thanks a lot. What a great stuff. I’m following you for a several years by now. You are absolutely my biggest source of knowledge and training wisdom.

Cool shoes. Thank you for the video I needed to hear rear delt idea's.

Brilliant advice my man

Another great video

Excellent advice

Thank you Matt , for your constant advocacy for safety and longevity of the body while building strength and functional. Wenning Warmups sucks for my lungs and heart through haha

Great info!

Excellent! And straight to the point

Love the advice started following your work a year ago and every bit of information from hand position on the bench to tempo work on deadlifts has seen my strength and power vastly improve great work Matt 👊

Feel like I paid for this information. Solid facts!

I did the standing lateral raise, the face pull on a cable machine ,& the Arnold press exercises. These exercises are absolutely essential for building shoulders and still effective when using light weights. People train shoulders too heavy and have shoulder pain all the time. I'm one of those people but I'm listening now. You still can get a pump with these lightweight exercises. Your channel is 🔥

I do dumbbell military presses but do it in neutral grip seems to help.

Funny, my friend only asked me how to build shoulders today. This covers it better than I could. (Shared)

Awesome stuff, subscribed!

Great info I was looking for new shoulder movements that aren’t a variation of the ohp as I got the feeling too much of that is really bad

Love this guy, pump out the facts and show different exercises correctly rather than wait for a novel to be read then show the movements like other channels. BOOM BOOM POW, plates to the weights baby, whoa.

Thanks 🙏🏻

Spot on, we didn’t have bands in the day everything was done with weights

Holy crap!! I saw Harvey going for his phone in the background!! Initially I thought he was going for his Glock!!

I like this shoulder workout

i love the a cross the body for the anterior delts damn iam really feeling it and the best thing: 0 chest activation i can isolate the front delts without using my upper chest

I'm not a power lifter or a body builder, i'm just just an old dude who wants to stay in shape and get strong/stronger, i've been traning since my teens, back then i was training with bad technique and bad form, thats why i a had weak and injured shoulders, even with a decent bench press, now i only bench a little but i've increased my strength and size in my shoulders substantially by doing primarily standard heavy strict OHP, but importantly alternating these with standing medium wide grip strict press behind neck, which focus on front delts and stretch in the bottom and a overhead medium narrow grip, behind neck JM sort of press, which focus on triceps and lockout, these 3 shoulder press exercises are complementing each other like nothing else i've ever tried, and of course i do a bunch of laterals, by the way i've allways had strong rear delts, so i never had to priorities rear delts first in training, even after 2 hours of OHP work and side laterals, i lift more weight in rear delt exesices, and they just keep getting stronger, i used to do a lot of rotator cuff execises for prevention, but that seemed to just invite more in juries, so i fucking stoped doing all these stupid fluff execises. I'm 53 by the way and i train 3 hours a workout, because, to prevent injuries i have to do a lot of warm up sets, i know it's not a recomended thing to do, i just dont give a shit about all these standard ''rule of thumb'' recomendations about workout length, so i do what ever the fuck i want to in the gym, cause it works for me.

Always great content! Was wondering, would it be a good move to pre-exhaust the traps before hitting the rear delts? Or would that just fire up them up and make them more likely to dominate?

Thanks for this. I've never been able to get good delts--not that I want very big delts, but I like the "capped" look and have never been able to achieve it. In my younger days I'd hit the delts hard, with overhead presses, heavy laterals, etc., to stimulate growth. All I did, pretty much, was wreck my shoulder joints. Maybe these exercises will work.

How is it I only found this channel now!!

Left shoulder already screwed up! Face pulls really helping

What is that comfy looking gym mattress he's lying on @3:30? Looks cozy af

Rep range and sets?

Hi Matt, does it matter which way your thumbs point when doing face-pulls? Thanks mate.

My motto is........ When in doubt do more pulling work. Especially pulling from overhead down to ur body(pull ups chins lat pull downs and use all diff grips n width esp close stuff it gives long ROM). Pulling horizontally toward ur body would be next priorty and again same concept with grips n widths and heights in regards to line of pull if set up ona cable station. Last priorty would be upright row type of angle or pulling with a bar on the cable station put all way at the bottom and ur a fee feet back. Point is to work the weaker less used angles that we dont really get into as a modern day civilized human. Gravity and most daily stuff is pulling from below us to our body or in front of us to our body but lil overhead. Monkeys n stuff have amazing lats n backs. The more overhead pulling and pushing u do the stronger n more injury resistant u will be. Ofcourse dont ignore deadlifts of all variations

I have never thought of it ... Great vid man .... Will now focus more on rear delts ... Wanna ask one question , while doing shoulder exercise I feel weights in my bones , so is that normal ? I have been doing those exercise in front of my trainer too , there wasn't any error ..

Hey Matt, do you recommend applying these movements into a circuit? Or focus more on TUT for each set?

I’ve always read that the Arnold press could be hard on the rotator cuff, due to the rotation cuff. Does the light weight and slow tempo make it safer?

A lot of strong men don't train rare delt they should for muscle balance. However training your rear delts has no carry over when it comes to your max press.

Matt, what kind of shoes are those? I'm still sporting 20 yr old Otomix, need an upgrade

This explains a lot. I don't do any rear felt exercises. I always felt like it was a glamor muscle

Do you recommend any kind of Upright Rows (like Cable, Dumbbell, Barbell, one arm, etc)? I guess you don't like them. Anyway I wanna hear your opinion about this type exercise if you like to share it! 👊🏻✔

Why don’t you guys do heavy military/OH pressing anymore? Like is it a dangerous position for the shoulder to be in under heavy load? Would snatches also fall into this category? Thanks!

This video really helped me. I dislocated my shoulder in a car accident and never rehabbed it correctly. My left rear felt was non existent.

Listen to this man…….Don’t be like me and have wrecked shoulders.

As a previous bodybuilder the rear delt was very important. Even more important than pressing movements. The goal is to have big, round cannonball delts and heavy bent over raises was the way to do it. If you didn’t do ‘em, when you stood to the side your shoulder would disappear. Now that I’m powerlifting, they’re still just as vital for the reasons Matt stated. Also, looking through the comments, am I the only pervert that picked up on Matt’s comment “hit the backside harder, if not much harder than the frontside??” 😂😂😂 Sorry, but todays culture has ruined me.

If I feel slight pain due to impingement, should I continue through some of these or no?

Why wasn't Harvey in his shark costume?

Love the 4th ID flag in the background "Steadfast and Loyal"

Pls do one for bfr please

What about barbell OHP?

i rly dont get the OHP aversion ... just watch rippetoes video on it he explains that it dont hurt ur shoulders

Guess what day it also is... Shoulders 😄

Pinky up on side delt does more damage

Why are push press bad

Защо българикото знаме е закачено на стената ?

Wait.. did you just say not to do military presses???

o i see you have oldsoviet union flag))))) nice to see one

Harvey being a creeper. No flip flops?

why is he so against military press

Love all the evil flags all over the place.

First

I don’t understand why there is a soviet flag on the wall?

What the hell is a commie flag doing on your wall, Matt? How in the hell can a ranger be a red?