-
10-09-2005, 10:53 PM #1Member
- Join Date
- May 2005
- Posts
- 583
Seated overhead dumbell presses work mostly the front delt?
I know that seated overhead dumbell presses hit the front AND side delts, but what do they mostly hit?
I heard that they mostly hit the front delts. Is this true?Last edited by Tommy Gunn; 10-09-2005 at 11:02 PM.
-
10-10-2005, 06:06 AM #2Associate Member
- Join Date
- Jul 2005
- Posts
- 270
Originally Posted by Tommy Gunn
-
10-10-2005, 11:09 AM #3Banned
- Join Date
- Aug 2004
- Location
- L'Inghilterra
- Posts
- 1,611
Yes its true, unfortunately. Since you have to externally rotate the shoulder so you can press overhead, its putting the front delt into the strongest position and putting the medial at a disadvantage. Notice that instead of being on the top of your shoulder its right on the back whilst the front delt is directly below the dumbell and taking most of the load.
-
10-10-2005, 02:55 PM #4Member
- Join Date
- May 2005
- Posts
- 583
So what you guys are saying is that seated overhead dumbell presses DO work mostly the front delt.
Right?
-
10-10-2005, 03:28 PM #5Banned
- Join Date
- Aug 2004
- Location
- L'Inghilterra
- Posts
- 1,611
Yes. The medial is hard to target in compound exercises but even so, its a good idea to do them because it won't grow purely through isolating raises. You do need to do the shoulder presses in my opinion. It will send growth signals to your medial deltoids even if they don't ache much, and even though the deltoids are three separate heads, they are linked. So growth in one usually follows in the other.
-
10-10-2005, 04:46 PM #6
many peoplle believe you cannot improve part of a muscle, the whole muscle improves as a unit
-
10-10-2005, 05:21 PM #7
so basically u only need 1 pressing movement???
-
10-10-2005, 06:04 PM #8Originally Posted by Flexor
-
10-10-2005, 06:05 PM #9Originally Posted by D9S0M
-
10-10-2005, 06:06 PM #10Originally Posted by striker93
Thanks Striker..
-
10-10-2005, 07:39 PM #11Member
- Join Date
- May 2005
- Posts
- 583
Since I started wide grip upright rows (sets of 10,8,6,4 increasing weight each set), my side delts have exploded.
-
10-10-2005, 08:01 PM #12Originally Posted by Tommy Gunn
-
10-11-2005, 02:04 AM #13Originally Posted by Flexor
-
10-11-2005, 08:17 AM #14Banned
- Join Date
- Aug 2004
- Location
- L'Inghilterra
- Posts
- 1,611
Originally Posted by striker93
I've tried upright rows and often felt the humeral head grinding in the GH shoulder joint. Any exercise in which you are rotating the shoulder whilst moving it in another plane is a bad idea. I also don't like the chance of impingement. However, everybody's shoulder structure is different so maybe others have no trouble with upright rows.
Thread Information
Users Browsing this Thread
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Do we really need to come off...
05-01-2024, 10:34 AM in ANABOLIC STEROIDS - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS