Thread: Best anterior deltoid exercise?

Anterior delt IS the front delt

Do you mean posterior (rear) delt???

Yea anterior is the front delt, medial is the middle/side delt, and posterior is the rear delt.

Some good lifts to help build these:
DB Bent Lateral
Wide Grip Cable Row
Reverse Peck Deck

These are some good rear delt lifts, but don't forget to concentrate on the upper back and traps as well. With a combo of all these it will help to give overall mass and shape to your body.

Pretty much any kind of pulling motion will ht the rear delts. Check your form if you feel they're lagging.

I always told people to pull with the elbows, not their hands. Otherwise people end up half-curling their rows.

OK, I feel like an ass. Yes, I did mean the posterior deltoid.

DeadBolt, that's for exercises. I don't have access to cables or machines. The DB Lateral Raises sound good. Can you recommend a good barbell exercise?

Saturday Fever, could you recommend a particular exercise? BTW, what part of Cali are you from?

For a BB lift try a Bent Row but instead of bringing it to the stomach(working lats) bring it to the upper chest region to focus on the rear delts and traps.<<same concept as a DB lateral but with a BB.

I also read somewhere that if you combo a BB shrug and a Bent row it hits the traps or rear delts awsome, depending on your stance. I use em for traps every so often and they really hit em hard. Play around with the stance and start light so you can figure it out. Once in the stance try to pull like an upright row but you wont be able to get as high-to much weight.

Also SF brought up a great point focus on your form and pull with the elbows, dont curl your rows.

Exercises being equal, just focus on form and pulling with the elbows and you'll be fine.

Try perpendicular rows. A nice compound exercise that allows you to pull big weights with those posterior deltoids.

it's rare that I do any isolation work on anterior or posterior delts.

Originally Posted by Saturday Fever

I always told people to pull with the elbows, not their hands. Otherwise people end up half-curling their rows.

Sound advice, that.

I make sure i "squeeze" my shoulder blades together fully to fully contract my traps/rhomboids. I really need to get more middle back thickness.

some good suggestions were already made, but here is another one...

Dumbell bent laterals, but with your arms totally straight and palms face to the rear throughout the movement, so that when you raise the weight your pinkie is facing the ceiling and your thumb is facing the floor. Use VERY light weight and raise to just shoulder height.