Shoulder Exercise

As you look to build up your body be sure to include shoulder exercise in your workout routine.  Shoulders help define your upper body and there's no point in having a great chest and biceps if your shoulders are slumping over.

Dumbbells and shoulder exercise 

If you have your own home gym, you undoubtedly have some dumbbells, so let's begin with them.  AS always with weights, start with a lighter weight and be sure to do the exercise with good form.  If you can barely lift 25 pound dumbbells once over your head, then this is clearly too heavy. Remember, a shoulder exercise should strengthen your shoulder muscles; not squash them.

Once you've found the weight that's right for you, take a seat on a chair or weight bench. Grip the dumbbells tightly and hold them on either sides of your body. Your arms should form right angles pointing up with the dumbbells just above your head. Now, push that right dumbbell toward the ceiling. When you're lowering it, raise the left dumbbell. Repeat this process several times. You should be able to accomplish eight reps with each arm. Also, be sure to do at least three sets.

Do this a couple of times per week and in a few weeks you'll start to see the benefits of your shoulder exercise.  Do not do shoulder exercises everyday because ti will doyo more harm than good.

Building muscle is a process that consists of breaking down muscle, then "feeding" it so it can then grow.  If you break the muscle down each day then it will never grow. 

So resist the tempation to workout the same muscle each day.

If you're trying to tone, you should focus more on high reps, and three sets. If you're working to gain mass, then you should increase weight, lower reps and increase sets. Now remember, this is but one great shoulder exercise. There are more to choose from.

Weightlifting is great exercise and shoulder exercise is one of the ones I enjoy the most because it exercises a very poerfule and visible set of muscles.

Be sure to keep form and increase your weights every couple of weeks.  Think of weight lifting as a way of life, not a means to an end.  In other words, don't be in a hurry to get results because that will more than likely resutly in an injury which of course means time away form the gym, and no one likes that!