Help with progress on shoulders...Mr X?

[TheBandit]

If I drop front raises, will the front delts get enough work through just chest day and parts of back day?

Also, if I dropped front raises, should I put my rear delt exercise back in?

 

[Cackerot69]

Drop the front raises and add rear raises...and do the press before the laterals. And no, you shouldn't change your routine often.

 

[Benzi]

Drop routine cause routine=plateau
front raises only add cuts, if anything do towards the end
no machines for shoulders bc of the limited range of mtion
do no more than 9 sets total for shoulders,
mine is:
3 sets military 4-6 reps
3 sets side laterals (seated/standing) 4-6 reps
3 sets bent over delt raises (freeweight/cable)
Of course the prog switched slightly form week to week inorder to keep growing

 

[Cackerot69]

"Routine" does not = plateau, it means maximum muscle growth.

And how exactly does doing front raises make you cut?

 

[Benzi]

Cackerot69-- Once one gets in to a routine the muscles adapt and it is much easier to reach a plateau. This is well know. By routine i don't mean periodzation, i mean the same progarem week and and week out.

As for front raises given cuts, for me it's has brought out the overlapping anterior delt to the bicep. It also helped shape round inner anterior delts (ones that strech acros the pectoris minor. Although on occation i do do them, i only go light, heavy reps because i find that 1 - it takes forever to make gains in my anterior delts and 2- it causes my injurieis.

That is all, don't get into a routine!!!

 

[Cackerot69]

Yeah, muscles adapt by growing! The nervous system adapts to the movement as well, and only AFTER the nervous system adapts can you stimulate max muscle growth. So, by changing your routine often you are taking a step back in trying to gain muscle.

That is all, get into a routine!!!