Shoulder exercise for all around strength and function?

[frorider6.2]

Read another thread on a shoulder injury on here and got to thinking about my crappy shoulder. I'm tired of them (specically my right one) being the weak link of my entire upper body.

So, what exercise regimen can I follow to strengthen my shoulders so that they become a stong link vs a weak link. Not just delt exercises, but all of the supporting muscles.

I want my shoulders to be up for everything from throwing a football to MMA to pressing a ton of weight.

 

[SgtSlaughter]

Reaccess your form on ALL exercises and get it right

Helped me boatloads.

 

[frorider6.2]

Reaccess your form on ALL exercises and get it right

Helped me boatloads.

I do tend to flare my elbows on all my bench and pushups and I'm working on that. I just want to know what exercises to perform and how to train my shoulders until all of the supporting muscles and tissue are as strong as my delts and pecs.

 

[musclemom]

Read another thread on a shoulder injury on here and got to thinking about my crappy shoulder. I'm tired of them (specically my right one) being the weak link of my entire upper body.

So, what exercise regimen can I follow to strengthen my shoulders so that they become a stong link vs a weak link. Not just delt exercises, but all of the supporting muscles.

I want my shoulders to be up for everything from throwing a football to MMA to pressing a ton of weight.

Well, the fact of the matter (speaking from experience here) depending on what's WRONG with your shoulder it may NEVER be 100% and there may be some things that you can't or shouldn't do. If you have a shoulder that flares up with a certain few activities, you just steer clear of doing them if you can. You have to listen to your body ...

Be that as it may, couple of suggestions to help shoulders: 1) work lighter; 2) dumbbells are your friends; 3) perfect form is critical; 4) if it REALLY hurts, you have to accept that you CANNOT do that particular exercise ... but, maybe you can find an acceptable substitute ... for example, with my problems, barbell military presses hurt my shoulder HORRIBLY, but dumbell presses are just fine because I can't go too heavy on my bad arm by letting my good arm pick up the slack, and I can tweak my form a little, adjust the angle of the joint or the depth of the press to accomodate the bad shoulder.

A little common sense goes a long way in living with injuries

Ridiculously light dumbbell laterals have done me a lot of good too (they had to be ridiculously light before they stopped hurting).

 

[fortunatesun]

A lot of technical stuff served up with this one, but starting about mid-way through there's a lot of what you want to know:

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/shoulder-rehab.htm

musclemom, you might find it useful reading also. On those dumbell presses, you could work the weak shoulder unilaterally- do a one-arm press with a slow movement using limited range of motion and gradually building up both your speed and ROM. This idea is explained in the article under Speed of Movement.

 

[Lextasy]

Go to your local bookstore, or mailbox, and grab a m&f.... cut out the shoulder exersices and on days you work shoulders... grab one of those cut outs and do it perfectly...WATCH YOUR FORM...

my shoulders use to lag way behind.... but now they share the pinnacle of my arms... next to the tri's

now if you are injured... do it until you feel you cant... doesnt seem the case for you however, just your lagging shoulders... am i correct?

anyway, magazines do great tricks... along with your routine.