Best Shoulder Muscle Building Workout for Advanced Bodybuilders

Guess what is the biggest problems advanced bodybuilders face when building shoulder muscles? The smaller lateral deltoids get under-trained.

Big Shoulders like Arnold's are Built with Priority Training Principle

Use my Advanced Pre-exhaustion technique and Priority technique and my 4 week Shoulder Muscle building Workout for advanced bodybuilders and grow, grow and grow.

Here's how it goes:

• You have exhausted all the best shoulder exercises
• Increased your Protein intake and even
• Taken your training poundages to new heights

But the new shoulder growth is still missing.

This article will show you how to kickstart new muscle growth with an advanced shoulder muscle building workout that works.

Inside this article:

• The Pre-exhaustion technique for Shoulder Training
• The Priority Training Principle
• 4 Week advanced Shoulder Workout
• The Best Advanced Muscle Building Program
• Summary

The Pre-exhaustion Technique for Advanced Shoulder Training

Your anterior deltoids should cry every week. No other muscle group gets such attention, which means intense training.

They are in action in shoulder press, bench presses and in every shoulder joint exercise for that matter.

This leaves your lateral deltoids and rear deltoids under-trained, leaving potentially 50% of your deltoid muscle mass under-stimulated. 

What's the solution?

• Pre-exhaust the lateral deltoid heads before you perform shoulder press
• Add Bent over lateral raises to your workouts
• Add Rotator cuff training every 4 to 6 weeks.

This article covers the first 2 tips, read the rotator cuff exercises article for the 3rd tip.

When you add these tips, your muscles will grow because they have under-trained until now. But there is another principle you can add..

The Priority Training Principle for Shoulder Workouts

If your shoulders are lacking the girth and width, make shoulder training a priority. This means, training shoulders first thing in the week and training them early in your workouts. 

here, you employ high intensity training, high volume training or pure strength training to your shoulder workouts while maintaining other body parts with moderate intensity/volume maintenance workouts.

P.S. You can use the pre-exhaust and priority training principles for other lagging body parts too. 

Dumbbell flyes for chest before bench press, leg extensions for quadriceps before squats, etc.

4-Week Shoulder Workout for Advanced Bodybuilders

The Workout:

You will be training shoulders 2 times per week, for 4 weeks, which brings it to 8 total shoulder workouts.

Day One workout is a high intensity workout where you will select weights to fail between 6 and 9 reps. This targets your fast twitch muscle fibers which have maximum growth potential.

Week 2,3 and 4 should see an improvement of at least 1 rep for every exercise.

Day Two is reserved for Leg training. Since you are training using priority principle I suggest going slow on leg training with moderate volume/intensity.

Day Three is REST

Day Four workout is a low intensity, high volume workout intended to target your slow twitch muscle fibers.

Day Five is for Back training. Again, go for moderate volume/intensity workout.

Day 6 and 7 are rest, recuperate and grow days.

The Best Advanced Muscle Building Program

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Summary

The Pre-exhaustion and Priority training principle are 2 excellent advanced muscle building strategies.

I have seen excellent results with them for myself and my clients.

Use the above 4 week program, eat like a man and your shoulders will grow bigger than ever before.

All the best.