Lee’s Complete Shoulder Workout

In this blog post you’re going to get a full shoulder workout routine that will train all 3 heads of the deltoids – front delts, side delts, rear delts, and traps – Along with a little bit of Lee’s bodybuilding history… Enjoy!

I have just completed the very first official workout in my New Home Gym. If you’ve been following along with my YouTube videos then you may already know that I’m in the process of putting together a basement home gym – appropriately called: “Hayward’s Hardcore Home Fitness” 😉

When I started bodybuilding as a teenager it was in a basic basement home gym. My dad and I built this ourselves and that’s where I trained for my first 8 years. I even competed in 3 bodybuilding competitions training from our home made home gym.

Then in my early 20’s I decided to venture out in the world and join a public gym. Starting off with the local YMCA, and as the years went by I made my rounds by having a membership at most of the local gyms at one time or another. While I certainly enjoyed the variety of equipment available in a commercial gym. There was still something drawing me back to the simple basics of a good ole home gym. A lot of times when you train at a commercial gym it’s easy to get distracted with all the fancy padded machines, and even though you can spend a lot of time in the gym, you may not always get much done in the way of a productive muscle building workout.

18 year old Lee training at home.

However, when you train in a simple gym you are forced to stick to the fundamental “bread and butter” free weight exercises. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that all exercise machines are bad, some of them are essential for training the different aspects of your muscles (such as cable pulley exercises). But if you have a choice between doing an exercise with a barbell, or same fancy padded machine with a smooth moving weight stack… Choose the Barbell, it will be harder AND more productive!

Another huge benefit of training at home is the convenience and time saving. In the length of time that it takes most people get ready to go to the gym, drive there, find a parking place, put their stuff in the locker, mindless chit chat, and afterwards drive back home. You could have your entire weight training workout completed at home.

Not to mention that during the actual workout itself there are no distractions, no waiting on equipment, no one looking over your shoulder and interrupting you with:
“Hey buddy, how many sets you got left?”.

At home you can simply focus on what you want to do, when you want to do it, you are in total control and it’s a nice change of pace from the busy commercial gym.

Anyway, enough of me rambling on about the benefits of a home gym.
Let’s get down to business and discuss the actual shoulder workout.

The Full Shoulder Workout…

This workout will hit all 3 heads of the deltoids along with the traps.

This is the complete shoulder workout routine:
– Standing Barbell Shoulder Press – 3 sets of 6-8 reps
– Low Pulley Cable Side Lateral Raise – 3 sets of 10+ reps per arm
– Low Pulley Cable Rear Delt Raise – 3 sets of 10+ reps per arm
– Low Pulley Cable Front Raise – 3 sets of 10+ reps per arm
– Barbell Shrugs – 3 sets of 10+ reps
– Seated Shoulder Press Machine – 3 sets of 10+ reps

*Note: start each exercise with as many lighter warm up sets as you feel you need in order to work up to your top working weight.

If you are looking for a complete mass building shoulder workout to help fill out your deltoids, then give this shoulder routine a try for yourself and leave me a comment below letting me know how it works for you.

About the Author:

Lee Hayward started working out in 1990 and began competing in bodybuilding competitions in 1995. Then in 1999 he started www.LeeHayward.com the very website you are reading right now. Over the years Lee has committed himself to helping aspiring bodybuilding and fitness enthusiasts improve themselves by gaining muscle, burning body fat, and developing a strong healthy body. If you would like Lee to help you get in your personal best shape with personalized diet and training advice. Then you should consider becoming a member of the Total Fitness Bodybuilding “Inner Circle” Coaching Club.

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