A big full pair of round deltoid muscles can really widen your entire frame giving you an impressive illusion of size and strength. It's one of those muscles that you can actually show off without short sleeves and in a baggy shirt. It's tough to show off arms or chest but huge cannonball shoulders stick out and make you looker bigger. The best shoulder building workouts employ some heavy pressing exercises as well as some additional exercises to make sure you are hitting all three heads. A simple routine that hits your shoulders hard is the best thing for lagging delts. Here are a few tips to make sure you get the development in muscle mass that you want.

Standing Barbell Presses

This is a are a great movement because they force you to use your core muscles and many stabilizers. Some guys like to do them seated but there is nothing like picking up a barbell and pushing it over your head to build power and size. Standing presses are a great way to build functional strength for sports and to build your muscles for other lifts. When done without a belt you can actually get an ab workout from the stabilization but you will need to use lighter weight to keep the form strict.

Upright Rows

You'll probably need some straps for this exercise so that you can go heavy. Use a medium grip because if you go to close you may start to strain your wrists from putting them into a non friendly ergonomic position. Make sure you aren't starting the movement with your legs to get the weight up. Once you are starting to reach failure you can do a couple extra reps by cheating the weight up a little with your legs from the starting position. This will hit your front delts and trapezius muscles. You want to have traps that tie into your shoulders nicely.

21's for Super Growth

I learned this exercise back in high school and it is great for hitting all 3 heads to build huge round delts. This is a tri-set of side laterals, front laterals, and rear laterals. Pick a weight for side laterals where you can do 7 strict reps. Drop the weight and do 7 reps with the front, drop it again and do 7 reps for the rear delt. Do not rest in between these sets. Once you have done 21 reps you have completed 1 full set of 21's. Your shoulders will be burning. Do 3 sets of this at the end of your should building workout to finish them off.

Proven Muscle Building Routines

If you want more shoulder building workouts that build to build huge delts then you need to follow a workout program that has been used by others to build muscle. Don't try to invent new things when there are plenty of tried and proven routines. Save yourself years of wasted time and start gaining muscle mass faster than ever.