Monday, January 24, 2011

Shoulder Lifts

Shoulder lifts can help improve a lot of overall strengh. I am going to go over two lifts that can improve your shoulder strengh. The first lift is called the military press. You can either use dumbells or a straight bar. All you have to do is start it over your head then go down to your chest and repeat. I would do about 4 sets of 6 reps with pretty high weight. If you are looking just for tone then I would recomend 4 to 5 sets with 12 reps with pretty light weight.

The next shoulder lift is called shoulder flys. You grab 2 dumbells and put your hands with the dumbells in them and raise them up to a 90 degree angle. I usually do about 4 sets with 6 reps each set. These two lifts will help improve your shoulder strengh a lot. It could also help with throwing a ball or shot put.

4 comments:

  1. Both of these lifts suck i must add. How much weight to put on when you are doing these lifts?

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  2. sounds really hard to do, im sure i could lift about 1,000 pounds

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  3. wow!!... definatly going to have to try these. They sound hard but i bet its toatlly worth it

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  4. What activity does the military press help you out with the most - the same as the shoulder fly (shot put)?

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