You want to turn those pebble delts into boulder shoulders with just two moves? Make sure they’re these two. 1) The overhead press. Now there are lots of variations of this motion but the one I like the best is the single arm dumbbell OHP. This allows for safer stacking of the wrist over the elbow over the shoulder and doesn’t compromise overload while doing so. 2) A lateral raise of some kind. Slow, light and strict or heavy and with momentum - they are both great options however my favorite fo

If you want those shoulders to last for the long haul you need to respect your press! Raising the arm overhead with normal joint biomechanics requires a heavy contribution of the scapula freely rotating on the rib cage. If you sit when you press…you’ll have a tendency to press your torso back into the pad, delaying the timing of the shoulder blade movement and interrupting the natural sequence of the joint motions that smoothly get the arm up overhead. Be sure to keep some distance between your