The Best Science-Based DUMBBELL Shoulder Exercises For Mass and Symmetry

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Big, well-defined, and balanced looking shoulders are essential when it comes to developing a broad, powerful looking upper body. But achieving them is no easy feat. One of the biggest mistakes people make with shoulder training is failing to incorporate enough dumbbell exercises into their routine. Dumbbell shoulder exercises are crucial as they help to prevent muscular imbalances or asymmetries from developing. 
 
In this video, we’ll be covering four dumbbell shoulder exercises which will help take your shoulders to the next level.
  
One of the best dumbbell shoulder exercises is the dumbbell shoulder press.
The shoulder press can be done standing or seated. Both variations will effectively target the front delt. Dumbbell shoulder presses will also activate the middle and rear delt. This exercise will act as your primary compound movement for the shoulders. There are pros and cons to the seated and standing variations.
  
The next exercise is going to target the lateral deltoids or mid-delt.
The lateral deltoid doesn’t receive enough attention from the shoulder press alone.
Lateral raises are likely your best bet for growing this portion of your shoulders. Research has consistently shown that lateral raises elicit the highest activation when compared to other common shoulder exercises.
 
Next, we’re going to use the rear delt dumbbell row. This exercise will shift more of the focus onto the rear delts. Rear delt dumbbell rows will also activate back musculature and the lats to a significant extent. This exercise is a great choice to add mass to the rear delts since it enables you to use heavier weights than rear delt isolation movements such as reverse flyes.
 
One of the best dumbbell shoulder exercises for the rear delt is a dumbbell version of the traditional rope face pull. This rear delt exercise can be used to target the rear delts further, and at the same time, strengthen the all-important rotator cuff, mid, and lower traps simultaneously.

The rope face pull is highly effective at targeting the rear delts as it incorporates the primary movement functions of the rear delts, but also adds in external rotation. The exercises we’ve previously covered don’t incorporate any external rotation. External rotation is a lesser-known, but still an important function of the rear delts.
 
Feel free to do this as a workout on its own. You can also split it up and add a couple of these exercises to your existing working program.
 
I hope that you were able to see the importance of choosing the right shoulder exercises, but more importantly, performing them correctly. Performing your exercises correctly is just as crucial if you want to build muscle faster while also avoiding injuries.
 
Within my Built With Science programs, you’re provided with detailed breakdowns of various exercises, and the correct form to use. If you need a program which will take you through the process of building an incredible physique, then join today by taking the quiz below to determine what program is best for you:

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Hope you all enjoyed this one! What do you guys want to see next? More training/workout videos, more nutrition videos (e.g. full day of eating)? Comment below and let me know!

JeremyEthier
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0:49 seated dumbbell shoulder press
3:14 lean-away dumbbell lateral raise
4:40 rear delt dumbbell row
6:23 dumbbell face pulls
8:05 sets and reps

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Man, such a great video. I've been working out for 35 years and know what I'm doing but I still learn something from every one of your videos. Thanks Jeremy!

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Dude you rock.
I destroyed my AC joint with poor squats and messed up my scapula muscles. Followed your advice in other videos and have gotten back to almost normal. And now this video helped me see how I can safely press again.

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This is the best Lateral raise video I 've seen so far! The arrows, muscle anatomy and color overlay are essentially well-explanatory!

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This definitely helps me alot as a newbie to accelerate my work out routine. Been sick of my 3- month back and shoulder habit and im starting to feel lack of improvement. Thanks to your videos surely i have new routine to start up a fresh and more improved exercises.

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hats off to your editor, the visualization is simple and clear to keep up with, insanely effective

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"and for this exercise you definitely want to put the ego aside and use relatively lighter weights"
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shoulders have become my favorite muscle group to work out in the past year. I regret not giving them much attention earlier. it really has improved my physique in just around a year of consistently training them.

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Started watching your videos and applying your advice to my workout routine not too long ago, and i can already see results! Love the videos you put out, tired of friends stopping me in the middle of my workout just to say "3rd workout only targets lats and not shoulders"

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Some really great info here. One word of warning that I do feel obliged to bring up: I tried the exercise #4 (Dumbell face pulls 6:23) a couple weeks ago and somehow injured my left shoulder. Not terrible but definitely still feeling some pain. I'm a fairly experienced weightlifter and I thought I was executing the correct motion -- then again it's very possible I wasn't. Just putting it here as a data point in case it's helpful. I love the lean-away dumbell lateral raise though, definitely will continue using that one.

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starting to see difference 1 month in doing only these exercises. You have earned yourself a sub!

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