Healthy Shoulders Through Effective Shoulder Training

Effective shoulder training is one critical way for obtaining healthy Shoulders and minimizing or even better, preventing injuries.

So performing shoulder exercises is a good way to do that and best of all it can be done in the privacy of your home as part of your home exercises.

Training Your Shoulders

Many of the exercises in how-to-exercise.com do train several muscles at the same time and some of these muscles are the shoulders (deltoids) and rotator cuffs as part of whole body exercise.

But I’ll demonstrate more exercises that have more of a direct training on the shoulders and rotator cuffs.

Multi-Angle Raises (All levels)

Your deltoid muscle fibers put in action through multi-Angles of planes or directions, so in this exercise you’ll perform upward raises in many different directions and there’re pictures along with the instructions to make it simple to understand and follow.

Oh…one more thing, you have the option to use hand towel, belt, strap, or elastic tube/band as resistance tool.

Instructions…

• Hold the towel end with the left hand (resisting force) and the other end with the right hand (the pulling force)

• Now pull with the right hand performing: front, diagonal, and side way raises (see pictures)…

• While you’re pulling upward with the right hand, resist the pulling with the left hand

• Keep pulling upward until you reach almost over your head, then start pulling downward with the left hand and resisting with the right hand

Side view of Multi-Angle Shoulder raises (the elbow can be straight or bent slightly)

Front view: Notice how the arm is pointing straight forward(12 o’clock)

Front view: Notice how the arm is pointing to the right (1 o’clock)

Front view: Notice how the arm is pointing further to the right (between 2 and 3 o’clock)

As with any exercise, you need complete focus in order to get the most benefit out of it and this exercise is no exception.

Rear Shoulder Raises (All levels)

Using elastic tube or band is more helpful to perform the rear raises if you’re novice trainee but hand-towel or strap will do just fine if you have more experience with resistance training.

This shoulder exercise can be performed standing, kneeling or bending forward at waist level and I’ll show you the lateral.

Instructions…

• Standing with feet pointing straight, bend the knees slightly and bend upper body* about waist level or a bit higher (see picture)

• Holding the elastic tube/band with one or two hands, pull upward focusing on rear shoulder muscles