Shoulder Workout

Muscle Endurance

Shoulder muscles, as a function of their design, fatigue quickly.  This results in a decrease in performance.  Therefore, we want to develop a shoulder girdle (this includes the sub-scap and trap muscles, not just the deltoids) that can continue to perform even when fatigued.  As with the other muscle endurance workouts, if you are a beginner you should perform 3 sets of 15.  Advanced athletes can do sets of 25.  Remember, in order to get results, you should reach muscle failure on your last set.  Each superset in this workout involves an exercise that isolates a particular muscle and then follows with a compound movement to force the muscle to do more work with help.  You want to leave about one minute between superset.  

Superset #1:  Anterior Raises & Shoulder Press (palms in)

Superset #2:  Lateral Raises & Military Press

Superset #3:  Reverse Fly's & Arnold Press

Superset #4:  Shoulder Shrug & Upright Row

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