Exercises that don't involve the the shoulders?

[flexdaddyz71]

With the thought of having my collarbone surgically shortened and reshaped. I was trying to think about how to setup my workout program to retain any upper body strength and size. I know this will be nearly impossible task. I've been racking my pea sized brain and I cannot think of one exercise that doesn't require the use of your delts. That goes for chest, back, triceps, biceps. Any comments??????

Next, I was thinking this will be a good chance in my life give my legs a super boost. My legs have excellent shape, but lack size. They're only 24" completely cold (measuring 8" above the knee cap) Calves are only 15" A few years back, my legs were a little over 27" So, it's time to get them bigger. Should I work them twice a week, since I probably cannot do any upper body movements? I was thinking quads/calves on Mon and Hams/calves/Lower back of Thrus. Light cardio/abs on Tues and Fri. Any input? Thanks FLEX

 

[GUARDIAN]

Day 1: Quads
Day 2: Hams
Day 3: Abs/lower back (hypers only for lower back)
Day 4: Calves
Day 5: off
Day 6: repeat cycle

No reason y your legs shouldnt be huge concentration a whole day on each like this.

 

[Trendsetter21]

Day 1: Quads
Day 2: Hams
Day 3: Abs/lower back (hypers only for lower back)
Day 4: Calves
Day 5: off
Day 6: repeat cycle

No reason y your legs shouldnt be huge concentration a whole day on each like this.

Thats a great combo workout. I would probably group hams and lower back together and make it look like this though.

Day 1: Quads
Day 2: Abs
Day 3: Off
Day 4: Hams & lower back
Day 5: Calves & Abs
Day 6: repeat cycle

Currently I split up Quads and Hams and its been a godsend for my leg growth and development. I've broken through my plateau with splitting them up as after squats and leg presses there wasn't a lot left in the tank to do hardcore hamstrings. Now that I split it up I can go hardcore on both. I love it.

 

[highlander555]

I'd focus on squats. Even if you didn't do any upper body, I bet all the great stuff going on in your body when you do squats would keep even your upper body from withering away.
That brings me to deads. I wonder if your collar would allow for deadlifts. If so, you could totally to a shortened version of Bill Stars 5x5 for strength training, just minus the shoulder presses.
Whatever you program you end up with, good luck bro.

 

[musketeer]

Find out what upper body stuff might work for you.
When I tore my shoulder, I couldn't bench or flye or military press, but I could:
chinup, row, pullover and powerclean.

I'd do 2 squat based days a week and one dead lift day.

Get great abs and calves and heck, if experiment and find you can do bicep and tricep exercises then you can get those arms pumped up too!