what's up muscle & strength this is IFBB Pro Santi Aragon today I'm going to
be taking you through three of my favorite aesthetic building shoulder
exercises
so the first movement that we're gonna be doing is a rear pec deck and they're
in the rear Pec dech what we're gonna be trying to hit is the rear delt now
we're gonna sit on the machine facing the pad and what you want to do
is you want to sit in a very comfortable spot so that your level with the bars
and if you notice usually a PEC deck machine you would grab the bar and
you've come back this way the modification that I do is I actually
flip my hands around to push back and if you notice in this movement what I'm
trying to do is I'm trying to concentrate
taking my elbows and I'm using my elbows to push my arm back I'm not using my
hands itself to move the bar which is then contracting my rear delt so I'm
gonna demonstrate with one arm again using my elbow to drive back contracting
the rear delt
and that's movement number one the second movement that we're gonna be
doing for esthetic shoulders is gonna be a lateral raise
utilizing the cables this is something that I do during prep I think it's very
important that you find a good balance with your shoulder training and again in
my opinion aesthetic training is also training with
a sort of balance as well so the cables pulling me back and that's stretching my
shoulder I'm coming up without having to swing my body just really concentrating
on bringing the cable up to the side of my body a lot of people make a mistake
doing any type of lateral movements by locking out their elbows and just
pulling with their wrist almost like this this is putting a lot of strain on
your elbow joint so it's very important that you put some slight bend in your
elbow and the way that I teach my clients is pretend like you have a
string attached to your elbow and that string is the one that's pulling your
elbow up and now you're putting less stress on your elbow less stress on your
wrist and all the stresses where we want it the last movement for aesthetic
balance classic looking delts is gonna be a superset I like to do the superset
at the end of my shoulder training and what this is going to do is this is
gonna hit your front portion of your delts and it's also gonna hit that nice
little edge on the lateral portion of the delts as well so the first movement
is going to be a front delt movement using the ropes I'm gonna lean my body
forward as well I'm gonna keep my back straight and what you're gonna do is
you're gonna pull the rope straight forward
and again if you notice I am not locking out my elbows I got a nice small bend to
them and I'm coming straight up I'm gonna do these for about 12 to 15 reps
I'm gonna turn and I'm gonna do an upright row and my elbows are gonna
drive straight up so the upright roses somewhat challenging for some people
because it's very awkward for them to lead with their elbows I'm gonna
demonstrate this movement and just notice how I'm leading the movement up
with my elbows and my elbows are actually getting higher than my
shoulders it's very important that you pick an appropriate weight that you can
handle so that your elbows are doing the driving and not your body elbows are the
ones that are driving up and contracting the shoulders
there you have it those are my favorite aesthetic building shoulder exercises
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