Thread: Shoulder training

I think too many of us have the same problem where our front deltoids are too large in comparison to the middle and rear delts. Obviously this is from doing pressing exercises and somewhat not concentrating on the side and rear delt exercises. Some of this may be an ego thing, like I know I can put up 85 lb dumbbells for shoulder presses and can do maybe 30 lb dbs for side laterals, it's hard to stop putting up big numbers on the shoulder press. Some of it may be the fact that if we do heavy bench pressing and incline bench pressing, our front delts are getting hit from those exercises too....

So....I am beginning to really see the benefits of even shoulder development. I know when I look at myself from the front, I see big broad shoulders, and I like what I see, but then when I look from the side, I see big front delts, and smaller side delts, and even smaller rear delts. In a way, it almost looks funny, like something is wrong with the picture. With that in mind, I am really thinking about eliminating all overhead pressing movements from my workouts and only concentrating on side and rear delt exercises like upright rows, side laterals, and rear laterals. I figure if I can bench 250 and incline press 225 and do dips with 90+ lbs strapped to me, that my front delts are in theory getting all they need.

Good strategy or flawed thinking? What do you guys think?

Behind the neck press hit them?

Side laterals always hurt my rotators..