Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: Triceps Equipment: Barbell Mechanics Type: Compound Tips: Preparation: Lie supine on an incline bench with your shoulders under the bar. Grasp the bar with a shoulder width overhand grip. Lift the bar and extend your elbow. Execution: Raise your shoulders toward the bar as high as [...]

Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Stand upright, with your feet about shoulder width apart and your arms to your sides. Hold a dumbbell in each hand, with your palms turned toward your body. Keeping your arms straight, lift the weights out and up to [...]

Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: Biceps, Lats Equipment: Other Mechanics Type: Compound Tips: Stand the band so that the tension starts with hands by your shoulders. Hold handles palms forward with bottom part of handle on backside of your hand. Press upward as you would a dumbbell press. Video Guide: Windows [...]

Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: Triceps, Abdominals Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Compound Tips: A seemingly simple exercise that jumps up and bites back at you. The exercise can be performed with virtually any form of resistance so equipment should never be a problem. The movement starts with the weight held at [...]

Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Works the side delts. Sit at the end of a flat bench with your feet firmly on the floor. Hold dumbbells with your palms facing in and your arms straight down at your sides. Raise dumbbells in a semicircular [...]

Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: Triceps Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Compound Tips: Pick up a pair of dumbbells and sit on a shoulder press bench (with a short, straight back) or a regular incline bench adjusted so the back is as straight up as possible. Press your back firmly against the [...]

Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Works your rear delts. Hold two dumbbells and sit at the end of a flat bench with your feet firmly on the floor and fairly close together. Bend forward until your chest nearly touches your thighs. Hang dumbbells between [...]

Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: Triceps Equipment: Barbell Mechanics Type: Compound Tips: Raise a barbell to your shoulders. Sit at the end of a bench, with your feet at about shoulder width, flat on the floor. Keep your chest high and your back straight. Press bar to arm’s length overhead. Use [...]

Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: Traps Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: This works mainly the rear delts and two of the rotator cuff muscles. This helps to improve the posture, alignment, and function of the shoulder joint. Lie face down on an incline bench that is set at 30 degrees. [...]

Exercise Data Main Muscle Worked: Shoulders Other Muscles Worked: None Equipment: Dumbbell Mechanics Type: Isolation Tips: Works the rear deltoids. Set an incline bench at the lowest possible angle. Then, with a dumbbell in each hand, lie face down on the bench so that the top of the bench is supporting your chest. Extend your [...]