My shoulders are dead!!!!!

[Scotsman]

Here's why:

Standing shoulder press:
barx10
95x10
135x10
185x6
225x10
275x5 Push press
320x3 Push press
burnout set (no rest between reps) 230x7, 135x12, barx20

Lateral raises
20x8
30x6
40x6
20x10

Tricep extensions
70x8
100x8 (left elbow started to hurt so I quit there)

Did have a kid ask me to critique his form on shoulder press. Not used to that in my gym most people would rather do it wrong than ask for help.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[artificialaspirations]

nice job. awesome presses

 

[thebigoz]

Nice man!

So true about people asking for help. Most people won't even ask for a SPOT! They would rather LIFT LESS purely because they're confident they can. So much for trying to break barriers!

 

[ExtraMile]

sick bro, I wish I had strong shoulders like that

 

[Scotsman]

sick bro, I wish I had strong shoulders like that

Well when you are 32 years old you'll have had plenty of time to strengthen them up. It's not like I built this up over night. Plus I'm only slightly bigger than you are, so don't get discouraged and keep on training.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[ScotterBMe]

That's a pretty tough program.

 

[ExtraMile]

Well when you are 32 years old you'll have had plenty of time to strengthen them up. It's not like I built this up over night. Plus I'm only slightly bigger than you are, so don't get discouraged and keep on training.

Cheers,
Scotsman

Lol, I know but my shoulders have always sucked, I military press half of my bench for 1 rep less lol.

Your military and push presses are insane man, love it

 

[SaiBoT]

Great job Scots! Power is gettig back to you! Are you planning to get back to competition already?

 

[Scotsman]

Great job Scots! Power is gettig back to you! Are you planning to get back to competition already?

Yeah the power is coming back fairly well. Went up to a whopping 315x5 on squats today so still a long ways to go there. Going to try deadlifting from the floor next week since I haven't done much of that in the last 6+ months.

Planning on competing in late july or august depending on when the next show is. I'm no where near 100% again and won't be by then but I'd like to at least see where I'm at.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[SaiBoT]

Yeah the power is coming back fairly well. Went up to a whopping 315x5 on squats today so still a long ways to go there. Going to try deadlifting from the floor next week since I haven't done much of that in the last 6+ months.

Planning on competing in late july or august depending on when the next show is. I'm no where near 100% again and won't be by then but I'd like to at least see where I'm at.

Cheers,
Scotsman

Nice! You have all our support bro, what about making a journal here on EF?

 

[Scotsman]

Nice! You have all our support bro, what about making a journal here on EF?

I've made a couple before just seems like there isn't much interest so I quit keeping them up after a while.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[ExtraMile]

I've made a couple before just seems like there isn't much interest so I quit keeping them up after a while.

Cheers,
Scotsman

that happens to me bro, sometimes nobody posts in there for weeks just keep it going though. Besides there are loads of journals now...

 

[SaiBoT]

Yeah the one who actually keep journals here, stick together by motivating each other.

 

[b fold the truth]

Well when you are 32 years old you'll have had plenty of time to strengthen them up. It's not like I built this up over night. Plus I'm only slightly bigger than you are, so don't get discouraged and keep on training.

Cheers,
Scotsman

I've got 2 months to catch you!!!!!

 

[iron asylum]

Did shoulders myself today on "Sunday" I have been feeling so good and strong lately that I have been going in on the weekends to hit arms and shoulders on saturdays and sundays so I get a second workout for each of them each week. I love when I'm feeling this motivated!

 

[Scotsman]

I've got 2 months to catch you!!!!!

Damn man not much of the early 30's left.

And with as far ahead as your squat and deadlift are right now you don't have any catching up to do.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[musketeer]

Here's why:

Standing shoulder press:
barx10
95x10
135x10
185x6
225x10
275x5 Push press
320x3 Push press
burnout set (no rest between reps) 230x7, 135x12, barx20

Lateral raises
20x8
30x6
40x6
20x10

Tricep extensions
70x8
100x8 (left elbow started to hurt so I quit there)

Did have a kid ask me to critique his form on shoulder press. Not used to that in my gym most people would rather do it wrong than ask for help.

Cheers,
Scotsman

LOL, when I read the title of your post I thought to myself, hmm multiple sets of push presses and laterals give me the worst soreness... The soreness obviously comes from the fact that you are using your entire body to fire the weights up, but only your shoulder girdle and tri's to lower it in the negative.

1 - I don't go as heavy on the presses, yet.

2 - When I used to do laterals regularly I'd use a lot more weight, even after heavy presses. You must be extremely strict to only do 40lbers. Do you do cheat laterals? A bit like push presses but isolating your medial delts and upper traps.

 

[Scotsman]

LOL, when I read the title of your post I thought to myself, hmm multiple sets of push presses and laterals give me the worst soreness... The soreness obviously comes from the fact that you are using your entire body to fire the weights up, but only your shoulder girdle and tri's to lower it in the negative.

1 - I don't go as heavy on the presses, yet.

2 - When I used to do laterals regularly I'd use a lot more weight, even after heavy presses. You must be extremely strict to only do 40lbers. Do you do cheat laterals? A bit like push presses but isolating your medial delts and upper traps.

I do very strict form for laterals. I keep my arms as straight as possible, use absolutely no swing or body motion, and pause at the top on each rep.

Cheers,
Scotsman