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Whether you are a woman or a man, if you want a great looking upper body, you must pay attention to the development of your shoulders. Having nicely defined shoulders allows you to create the illusion of a slimmer waistline, improving your entire upper body appearance.

Yet, many people don’t know how to train the shoulders correctly and, as such, do a few shoulder presses and call it a day.

Let’s go over some effective shoulder training tips so that you can get off to the right start.

Do Heavy Compound Sets First

First, to kick off the workout, you’ll want to perform some heavy work with a compound exercise. This is going to be what builds up the muscle size and strength, allowing you to reshape this area of your body.

Choose either the barbell or dumbbell shoulder press...or even an incline bench press can be utilized. The shoulder press is a little more directed towards just the shoulders while the incline bench press will hit your chest as well as your shoulders.

Perform 3-5 sets of this, working in the 6-8 rep range with a heavy load.

End With Isolation

Next, you’ll want to follow that up with an isolation movement or two. This includes your lateral raises, front raises, and rear delt raises.

By working in a higher rep range on these isolated exercises, you’ll help to build better muscle density, giving you that great ‘capped’ look to your shoulders.

Utilize Drop Sets Or Giant Sets

As you do these isolation exercises, perform them in a drop set or giant set protocol. With a drop set, you’ll do each isolation exercise separately, doing a tri-set of different weight loads. Start with your typical weight and perform as many reps as you can in good form. Then drop it by 5 pounds and continue. Finally make one more weight drop before finishing the tri-set.

Continue on with the two other shoulder isolation moves.

If you want to do a giant set, on the other hand, you’ll stack all three isolation movements back to back one after another...doing one set of each without rest in between. Once all three are completed, rest before repeating again.

So there you have some quick tips to help you get more from your shoulder workouts. Train them properly and you will be loving the results. If you want more tips, or if you are looking for professional guidance, check out my website.