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The Maxed Out Muscle Workout: Shoulders

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  • 30 min

  • 5

  • Yes

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As with the chest workout, the goal with shoulders is to stimulate the delts as much as possible, not to press the heaviest weights. For that reason, we employ front, back, and side raises to keep tension squarely on the deltoids. The shoulders also grow well when worked to exhaustion, so we make use of supersets and static holds to squeeze every last drop from them.

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Maxed Out Shoulder Workout

Exercise
Equipment
Sets
Reps
Rest
Exercise 1 of 5

Maxed Out Dumbbell Front Raise

Equipment
Sets
3
Reps
10-15
Rest
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10-15 reps each arm (alternating); SUPER SET with Shoulder Shrugs
Exercise 2 of 5

Maxed Out Shoulder Shrug

Equipment
Sets
3
Reps
10-15
Rest
60 sec
Exercise 3 of 5

Maxed Out Dumbbell Shoulder Press

Equipment
Sets
4
Reps
8-14
Rest
60 sec
Exercise 4 of 5

Maxed Out Rear Dumbbell Flye

Equipment
Sets
4
Reps
12
Rest
60 sec
Exercise 5 of 5

Maxed Out Lateral Raise

Equipment
Sets
2
Reps
to failure
Rest
60 sec
Pause at the top of the motion
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