Working Shoulders With Rich Gaspari
Fine tune your form and go through this shoulder work out with Rich Gaspari and Flex Lewis, courtesy of Gaspari Nutrition.
Rich begins the shoulder routine with Smith Machine presses and advises to be careful not to comprise your shoulder joint by going too far down in your range of motion.
Secondly, Rich touches on dumbbell side lateral raises, an exercise that is arguably one of the most often incorrectly performed exercises by bodybuilders and regular gym goers alike. Make sure you use good form and turn your thumbs down to the floor like you are pouring a pitcher of tea. This will insure that you perform the exercise correctly and keep the focus on the medial head of the deltoid.
Next, Rich takes a 45lb plate and performs a modified front raise dubbed, “steering wheels” to further work the front and medial deltoid tie in.
Lastly for the deltoids, Rich goes old school and re-introduces the incline dumbbell side lateral raise. Rich notes that this exercise “caps the deltoid at the insertion of the arm”. While performing the exercise, the firing of striated muscle fibers is easily seen in Rich’s deltoid. Definitely an old school exercise worth revisiting!
For traps, rich performs shrugs and once again corrects an often performed mistake of rolling the shoulders. To perform shoulder shrugs correctly, you need to raise the shoulders straight up, as if you are trying to touch your ears with your shoulders. No rolling!