Originally posted by BIG TEXAN
I guess being tall with long joints (long arms and legs) you don't look as big as you really are.
You're preaching to the choir here...not sure if you have me beat...but I'm 6'3" with size 15 feet, so my body was naturally fairly lanky until i subjected it to the weight room.

As far as shoulder training goes, it's one of the big mysteries to me. I will tell you that some of my best gains came when I abandoned shoulder presses of ALL varieties as well as any type of front raise (basically, i took out the anterior head altogether) and stuck to side lateral raises and rear delt work. I was told that my approach to training (LOTS of compound movements, pressing whenever possible, fairly heavy most of the time) hit my front delt head pretty hard day in and day out. So, when I stopped hitting it directly, it finally got to catch up and recuperate, and on shoulder days, I was able to put a lot more energy into the side and rear heads...so the shoulder complex as a whole really took off. While it worked for a bit, I don't know that it would work for everyone, and it actually stopped working for me fairly quickly....but while it worked they made incredible progress. LIke I said, finding that delicate balance with shoulders is quite difficult for me, as they are incorporated into so many other movements both directly and indirectly and that middle ground seems to elude me.