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Title: front delts
Post by: Cavalier22 on March 06, 2006, 01:37:17 PM
I rarely if ever do any isolation exercises for front delts.  I always have felt they get enough from chest days and military press.

what do you guys think??  I am thinking of adding some front raises
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: LatsMcGee on March 06, 2006, 05:03:17 PM
I 100% agree with you.  I usually do more for the side delts when I do shoulders than anything.  I'll usually add some front delt work, primarily pressing, a month or two before I cut to make the delts appear thicker and denser.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: kicker on March 06, 2006, 05:32:45 PM
I agree as well.  Front delts get plenty of work with most pressing movements anyhow.  I'm trying to bring my rear delts up to snuff.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: texasRUSH on March 06, 2006, 05:41:24 PM
my side delts are the ones that always need some help...i have insanely strong delts for their size...but they just dont seem to grow in nothing but strength

i'm currently doing bent over laterals with 55 lbs now and am finally burning out after 8 reps or so...i feel they get hit hard during back work.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: candidate2025 on March 07, 2006, 05:49:36 PM
umm....military presses are isolation.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: JPM on March 07, 2006, 07:30:31 PM
Military presses are a excellent compound exercise hitting the front (anterior) delts, laterial delts, upper pecs, triceps & traps for the most part. If you hold the grip a little narrower, about shoulder width, the front delts and triceps will get the brunt of the workload. It is a prime shoulder mass builder.

If your into heavy bench/incline/dip work than you should be getting more than enought anterior delt involvement. If you still want to add versions of the front raise than you might try BB raises or alternating standing DB raises, knuckles up all the way. Do not use a hammer grip. Lying on a incline and doing front raises is favorable (can ever reverse your position by lying face down and do raises that way).  Let the DB's  hang all the way down, as a starting point, and bring them up to almost top position overhead when lying in the usuall face up position.

Side Bar: the original military press was done with the heels together, back ramrod straight the the head not moving at all throughout the press. Hence the name Military Press. Good Luck.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: Superman on July 07, 2006, 12:18:30 AM
I think if you wanted them bigger, you would do the isolation exercise. Front alternate laterals are the way to go.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: NoCalBbEr on July 10, 2006, 10:54:48 PM
I've always had the same feeling. I felt that i should attack the front like all the rest of the heads of the delts. I've been doing front bb raises for a month and I've noticed that my  benches/close grip/inclines presses went down. I have really gone heavy up to 135. I think that they're not recovering enough.  I do shoulders on firday and chest on mondy.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: figgs on July 11, 2006, 12:26:20 AM
I just started doing front raises. I, like you, never did them because I also thought they were already being trained adequately but I just love doing them now! They're soo much fun I just enjoy them so I do them as a little treat from time to time.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: Chico_Holiday on July 11, 2006, 10:14:11 AM
umm....military presses are isolation.

ummm......actually military presses are a compound movement.

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Title: Re: front delts
Post by: Cavalier22 on July 11, 2006, 04:24:55 PM
yeah this kid dont know a goddamn thing. i mean look at a pic of him
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: WOOO on July 12, 2006, 12:05:24 PM
i think that you have to at least do military and dumbbell shoulder presses if you want to grow overall
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: Jr. Yates on July 12, 2006, 05:52:40 PM
i think that you have to at least do military and dumbbell shoulder presses if you want to grow overall
I agree, they are definatly a mass building excersise.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: Camel Jockey on July 13, 2006, 07:04:35 PM
I rarely if ever do any isolation exercises for front delts.  I always have felt they get enough from chest days and military press.

what do you guys think??  I am thinking of adding some front raises

I don't think front raises are necessary. If you flat bench or incline on chest day, that should be enough work for you front delts, especially if your shoulder day is directly after chest day.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: bigjohn_bluesfan on July 13, 2006, 07:55:56 PM
I recently added front raises to my shopulder regimen and I have noticed a difference already. When i do the movement I hold it 45 degrees at the bottom, then paralell to floor hold it, then up 45 more degrees hold it. That is one rep. My shoulder in the front were not peaking to their potential when I was depending on involuntary movement for their shape.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: Jr. Yates on July 13, 2006, 07:58:54 PM
I recently added front raises to my shopulder regimen and I have noticed a difference already. When i do the movement I hold it 45 degrees at the bottom, then paralell to floor hold it, then up 45 more degrees hold it. That is one rep. My shoulder in the front were not peaking to their potential when I was depending on involuntary movement for their shape.
I seem to only feel work in my front delts if I do the movement with "thumbs up." so latley i've just been sticking to that with either dumbells or the ropes on cables.
Title: Re: front delts
Post by: bigjohn_bluesfan on July 14, 2006, 08:20:23 AM
I seem to only feel work in my front delts if I do the movement with "thumbs up." so latley i've just been sticking to that with either dumbells or the ropes on cables.


^ Yes. For this reason, I sometimes switch my grip all the way around to underhanded and then do lateral raises. That separates the men from the boys in shoulder definition.