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The push press is criminally underrated for hypertrophy because it it allows you to handle more weight, especially during the eccentric part of the movement, provided you lower it more slowly.

Delt is the most aesthetic muscle and I mostly just spam lateral raises and it works great tbh

Wide barbell rowing has done wonders for my rear delts

The shoulder health bit is absolutely vital. I've had a nagging shoulder issue for 9+ months. After a month of taking a pressing break, I made sure to add in some basic shoulder health movements and some simple raises, which only takes maybe 15 extra minutes. It's made a massive difference and basically resolved the issue. Even just a 5lbs dumbbell for this kind of work can be enough!

Clean high pulls are the best thing I have ever done for my shoulders. I never had any luck progressing my strict press or lateral raises, but the high pulls have managed to get them to progress for once. Another benefit is that my traps have began to mutate as well, which along with Lü raises has dramatically improved my overhead mobility for strict and push press.

High reps 20+ . 2 exercises for every head. Past failure at times and forced reps is what gave me boulders. Start with rear always.

1 year ago today I started on my fitness journey with a bad back, bad neck and bad rotator cuffs... I slowly built my shoulders and I was just looking at my notes from a year ago and it showed that I started with 20 lbs with 12 reps at 90%. I no longer have the popping shoulders for 6 months now and I warm up with 30# now and DB press with 50 lbs with 65# as my PR DBpress for 7 reps. Thank you for sharing this video, I will incorporate it with my gym regimen...

Since doing front raises my front delts have been filling in that area above the chest. More of an upside-down V-shape. You hear people say training the front delts isn't necessary for people who do bench, but frankly it's an individual matter.

Agree with the machine point. My OHP was plateauing hard. Trained with a shoulder press machine in the 6-9 rep range for a few months. Came back to OHP and the strength quickly jumped back.

seated btn barbell + low incline dumbbell presses are soulmates

Carl Yngvar Christensen at 1:35, absolute freak. They even did studies on his muscles/muscle fibers here in Norway.

l love behind the neck presses and they've progressed similarly to regular barbell press for me. I think they have helped me maintain mobility and shoulder health over a decent period of time. Been following your channel for a while so it was really cool to see a clip of myself doing presses in the video! Thanks for also tagging the person shown in each video! Keep up the great content!

Being a rugby player ive always found it difficult to find the nice middle ground between lifting for strength while maintaining the athletic capabilities. These videos are always great for helping with my programming.

This channel deserves plenty more Subs!!

I Like btn press, lu raises, barbell, cable and inverted rows.

I started implementing the dumbbell front raises a few months ago into my push day... wow! Just, wow! I felt a burn in my front delts that I couldn't get from bench, where I feel my shoulders the least, and even seated dumbbell shoulder presses. Doing them in front of a mirror, I could really see my shoulders engaging and the striatians of it even though I have a relatively high body fat percentage. I'm going to drop my bench press for now, tendonitis in my thumb joint, which can loosen my grip, and focus on dips and seated shoulder presses.

No one can come close to the quality Bromley provides!! Absolutely phenomenal work.

Great video; could you make this a series for all muscle groups that would be awesome

To whom it might be useful: I've had shoulder pain when doing any kind of press for years. I finally tried an exercise i saw on YT last year, and it changed everything. I take an incline bench, set it one position above horizontal, put my knees on the seat, and lay chest down on the pad. Then i perform rear fly supersets. 10 at 90 degrees (pinkies up), 10 at 45 degrees, and 10 as close to my hips as possible. 3 sets. I suffered for several years. This routine turned it all around in under 2 weeks.

idk why people dont mention dips more often, it has the most stretch on the anterior delts of any exercise at all

I love using the hammer strength shoulder press, Only I don't sit in the machine, I stand facing the seat pad so its like a Viking press. On my heaviest sets I do as many as I can strict then when can not do any more (usually after 4-6 reps) I go into a push press to keep going. For myself over the years these have become my go to shoulder pressing movement for both strength and size

NinjaTylerMuscleGod at 0:40 brings back memories. IIIIIIIIIIIN YOUR FAAAAACE !

Maybe not delts specific, but since I've started olympic weightlifting my traps exploded, as well as an increased shoulder health and mobility

I'm currently taking a break from OHP. Ran into a couple walls trying to up my 1RM (lift started getting stale). Decided the solution was more muscle. I've been hammering my front delts on a seated machine press (really working on the stretch), and working in a lot of trap work with barbell rows (plus typical triceps and side delt work, too). I guarantee when I get back to OHP I'm going bust the plateau wide open because I've put on some decent size in my arms and delts, plus have the upper back stability to make it happen. I'm absolutely prioritizing shoulders over chest at the moment. Starting to see a little bit of a cap on my side delts is super motivating! Plus training the shoulder compounds doesn't really bother my shoulders or pecs like the horizontal pressing work can. Win-win-win 💪

Thanks very informative. adtional two exercises i like. Single arm Dumbbell push press, and seated neutral wide grip row to the chest.

Very good advice. Very balanced in your approach.

Bro deserves more subscribers. Pure fire advice.

Dips and side lateral raises have worked the best for me Rear delts get done by bent over rowing

Awesome video man! Love training shoulders

My first coach told me " you hear folks say his chest is too big, They never say that about shoulders."

Thanks for the in-depth breakdown

I’m an idiot so this is perfect

Push presses for max weight and or high reps blew my shoulders and triceps up.

Great timing on this video been thinking about doing more for the delts

I was extremely regular on the rear delt fly earlier in my lifting carreer, and did them both on pressing and pulling days, both for warm ups and burn outs, but the last few years I haven't had access to one, and I miss it soooo much.. :(

I like using push press at the end of a dumbbell ohp set for cheat reps.

Great thing about the ohp is that your incline pressing will also benefit greatly from it, i unexpectedly hit a +5 rep pr on the incline bench after focusing a bit more on the overhead press

Thanks! You're definitely one of my favorite yt guys.

Always great advice…. Thank you

When I was in powerlifting I got into a lot more variety in both compounds and accessory work but as far as bodybuilding goes, as someone with delts as a strong point, a seated press - dumbbell or machine, and front/side/rear dumbbell or cable raises is pretty much all that is needed.

What an outstanding video! So much to chew on here...

Push press imo is also great for striking combat sports!

Love your videos, going to try the seated dumbbell cleans on my next w. I am a hard gainer on the shoulders and the game changer for me was doing the rotation with the elbow on the knee (do it on the bench, much more comfortable) 3x15 full range, it unlocked my shoulder and now I am finally feeling that I can progress on the rest so I mega recommend it for everyone.

Only person I take bodybuilding advice from

I had shoulder impingement issues and felt down because of not being able to bench press or work the delts. That is until I saw a bid about the OHP from Starting Strength and Alex, and I have been able to do OHP without triggering impingement pain and if anything I made my biggest shoulder size gains from this movement

Algo for the Big Bros. 💪

What works for me is doing an overhead press only once a week and focusing more on side and rear delts when it comes to volume, best exercise for side delts I've found are cable upright rows and for the rear delts reverse pec deck

I have been doing shoulder presses with resistance bands to help with my pull ups. I've seen progress in my pull ups within a week. I would do 4 struggling reps and now I do 7 with a bit a struggle. I abused my shoulders as a kid. I would play baseball and football and I guess I overthrew my arms. Ofc I'd warm up before hand but then after I was pushing through burnt shoulders. I can't wait to become stronger on my shoulder press and press heavier loads. I feel the difference and growth speed with them.

Great vid

Thanks

Thank you for existing

Dude, I kid you not, while watching your deltoid video, my deltoids just started twitching lol. It was like they reacted to your video simply by watching it lol.

Side delts are goated.

Excellent info

Thanks for the great content and advice sir..your videos are a bigg help 🔑✅💯 Now I’m about to get these gains 👀

brilliant video!

I always loved the push press but i had a bad habit of hitting myself in the nose with the bar lol. Now i have a mental block on pushing too hard on them.

Thank you !!!

In the raises category I highly highly recommend going hard on heavy Lu Raises, atm I can do the 14kg dumbbells for sets of 6 and I can attribute most of my delt growth to this movement as I can leave it in my program all the time basically, I currently prioritize Dips and Bench so I don't have a lot of room for ohp right now and the Lu Raises have been fantastic, also great for mobilty and shoulder health

Please speak more on how you healed your rotator cuff tears 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

thank you so much ! Your channel is a goldmine

Yeah I agree with you here, I have a lot of people I train and I always tell them to hop into their max overhead press at the beginning of every workout, I contribute my success to it.

@AlexanderBromley You are going on the top of the list with Dr. Mike Israetel, even though both have bit different goals. You really have grate information to give. Subscribed. Keep going with the good work.

Push pressing has really blown up my delts. Currently at 105lbs with it. I find that using Squat University shoulder warm up and reverse pyramid with a light strict press warm up works best for me to increase weight.

Injuries prevented any shoulder growth for me. Can’t do any upward presssing.

Great video!🌸

Isolate traps 2x a week and alternate side delts, rear delts every other day. Failure and drop sets. You will grow shoulders.

Where do handstand pushup, and Kelly-snatches fit in? Also, will the rotator cuff be strengthened from compound exercises?

Great info.

Algo so Bromley does a series on these 🗿

On the negative side shoulder thrust style exercises just kill me. I get that from my dad. On the plus side I have big shoulders anyway.

at 10:30 he is loading the stretch even less than he would with a normal DB lateral raise. gravity is doing all the work when his shoulder is stretched. he should lean the other way if he wanted to load the stretch.

Really cool to see streetlifters in the video

Me watching this overhead pressing 200 lbs comparing myself to guys taking 3k grams of steroids a week on cycle. I like to warm up light then start heavy and pyramid down for 4 sets.I thought you were suppose to do push press heavy so you can take advantage of the negative.

hey reasons to do behind the neck presses: Ed Coan did them, Ed Coan is the GOAT, Ed Coan says don't be a b*tch.

Excellent. I been really feeling the chest vs delt impact as of late and trying to periodize focus on one or the other. Just frustrated since i want it all to grow. But it’s taxing the shoulders a lot jsut going for it.

good vid! I love doing shoulders. I don't do bodybuilding though, i've also been slack for a few years sadly lol I did olympic weightlifting 8 years though, did a lot of military press and push press, also one called a chinese press sometimes also called a squat press i think, probably other stuff too. The chinese presses are more for power and strengthening the bottom position of the jerk, but I remember how fast I started getting strong when I had them added to my program. We had a world class coach who moved to Australia from Iran as a refugee & he ended up coaching us for free after coming to our gym & he was insanely strong, his coaching was the best I ever had in my life & I'm so glad I was lucky enough to experience that These days I don't train olympic weightlifting & I've just gotten back into training. For now I just do military presses 4x4 & if I can't finish the set I do push presses for the remaining sets & I note this each session, so the next sessions I can see if I push further with those strict ones, doing less push presses & I personally found this process is really fast for me to get numbers up for my strict press, as well as push press obviously. I also control the bar down to my rack position after each rep, I don't just let it drop & catch it.. sometimes maybe I do with the last rep out of a bad habit lol

I just want mini pumpkins 🎃

On top of shoulder health, nothings blown up the back of my shoulders more than external rotations. I'm always surprised by the pump I get in my rear delts from just plain old cable external rotations

I make sure to warm up my rotator cuffs everyday, and I do something proactive for my shoulders, almost daily

We're all gonna make it brahs

Me watching this with a shoulder injury i’ve been fighting with for 9 months😢. I’m getting surgery in 6 days

Happy new year 🥳🥳🥳🥳

I run my lat raises until complete failure and then chuck in as many partials as I can before my arms will not go anymore. Gives a good burn. I aim at 120 degree ROM, physiologically can't do super ROMs, idk if my delts hit or it's a bone structure thing but I'd have to add in external rotation which would shift the load from the medial delt to the internal rotation which is undesirable as I'm not trying to hit M. subscapularis on the laterals. I don't run my front raises *as hard* because I don't see the same issues with anterior deltoid development (probably because I end up hitting anterior during press exercises, and a few others incidentals), so I treat it more as an accessory. I also get good response on posterior delt from seated row, and I also do some external cable rotations to hit it a bit extra. I mean, yes I also hit medial deltoid on seated dumbbell overhead press but I don't feel that gives great growth for it so I treat it more as a delt pre-fatigue in that regard, works for me but can probably be optimised a whole bunch. I'm completely certain I've seen notable delt growth.

Lower back >shoulders>knees are injuries that don't heal for years and will be with you for the rest of your life. Be careful

❤top video very well said

I shall declare a war on doorframes

Since you are a strongman more than a powerlifter. I have fun idea for a video specifically for you. You have crazy strong shoulders plus your tRex arms make benching effortless. 1. Set a goal to do 225 bench as many times as you can as in the combine, with the goal of breaki ng the NFL record. And chronical your training method to acheive this. This high endurance is helpful your strongman events im figuring and many viewers are interested in this topic. I believe you can actually do it and beat Ray Allen's or the current NFL record. Pretty cool stuff to watch and man would you get alot of views! Since I think you are someone who is a superbad ass you could follow this up with doing the combine 225 weight doing shoulder press, or push press. Im guessing you could OHP 225 sitting or standing for 30+ times. And wouldnt that be cool...to beat most NFL players bench total doing the harder shoulder press. You could even wear your favorite NFL jersey ir Teeshirt for fun. You are always looing for ideas for videos so this one I promise would get a million views.

Holy shit, I just found this video and I think Alexander may be a long lost uncle.

Taking a few minutes to stretch is not a waste and it's not pussy shit. Stretch the shoulders real good, warm the fuck up then go hard. Applies to non-shoulders too.

My shoulders snap crackle and pop while barbel pressing, but don’t when using free weight. I alllso don’t feel anything when doing free weight lifts for shoulders unless it’s laterals.

Question for Bromz and everybody in the comments, too. There's some Pin Press footage here, and I've used those from time to time in my training. I'm lifting on squat stands, so I'm returning the bar to a relatively narrow set of J hooks instead of the cross beams you'd have in a true power rack. That means I have to be slow and careful on the descent so I don't miss the hooks, and I've noticed that I can feel my rear delts working more doing that slow descent than anything else I've ever done for rear delt training, and I actually do prioritize rear delts, so I think I know of what I speak. So has anybody else noticed this effect when doing Pin Press, or am I crazy?

Lateral raises are way better for hypertrophy.

Wait I dont understand the difference between strict press and push press??

You are powerful and intelligent but you never look any different

how come no one ever does lateral raises on their side? I do both, It's a 90 degree motion either way and you are getting good tension half of the time either way but different parts get it laying on your side. (it's a good couch workout)

I’ve found HS press easier on the shoulder joints than barbell, always seem to tweak something with the latter.

Great Video @Alexander Bromley - Could I ask a question please?