Muscle Imbalance Between Front Delt & Rear Delt Explained!

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Many people who workout in the gym unknowingly develop a muscle imbalance in their shoulders over time. This is likely due to people's preference to workout muscles that they can immediately see in the mirror. These muscles can include your abs, biceps, and chest muscles.

This can eventually lead to problems though. Your Deltoid muscle at your shoulder has a front, middle, and rear part to it. Commonly, people's front delt is significantly more developed than the back portion. When this happens, one can get more rounded shoulders. This can cause poor posture and a potential shoulder injury eventually.

So what you want to do to even out this muscle imbalance is to also workout your rear delt. Actions of this part include shoulder extension, external rotation, and horizontal abduction of your arm.

Great exercises to workout your posterior deltoid include doing the reverse chest fly exercise, as well as face pulls. Both of these exercises will engage the back portion of your deltoid. By doing these exercises, your shoulders will also improve in their overall thickness and look more even.
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[FredoCorleone]

Software engeneering is the main source of shoulder imbalance

[stayfitlife]

most gym goers neglect what they can't see as you said jeff, and by doing so an over-development of the anterior chain muscles occur. And at best some rear delt/back training is performed half heartily. Great video Great advice

[wkctheben]

Simple explanation for a simple guy. All the big muscle guys just don't seem to understand and seem to go overboard while showing off their muscles. I don't really need big muscles, just healthy ones to help me to have less shoulder pain! (Torn R Cuff.)

[mohammadalessa]

good luck Jeff

I hope that you organizing your YouTube in playlist starting from now
not only "muscle imbalance" playlist but also ""shoulder, knee, back, ...etc" playlists categories it by body parts
thanks for your efforts

[davidhiggins]

Thanks for the info. I'm going to start putting these exercises in my routine.

[ColinDeWaay]

Good stuff Jeff, definitely was guilty of this!

[SeatLeonMK]

i have it reversed, rear middle delts good front delts upper chest no

[HankFinkle]

Good video. My dominant right rear deltoid is weaker than my left (non dominant) rear delt. Is this out of the ordinary?

[backback]

maybe you should start going in the gym and give us exercise tutorials. That would be really great. Especially exercises like deadlifts squats benchpress shoulder press etc.

[Derekkk]

I have frontal pain with posterior raises , why?

[theinjuredcellist]

This is a very interesting video, but please suggest non-gym exercises I could do at home. I have a theraband...

[Keranu]

I dare this guy to make a video where he's not constantly smiling.

[backback]

yeah facepulls :)))) best exercise for healthy shoulders ;D

[sr-oclo]

Sir i have medial delt imbalance my i am good built but my right arm medial delt is bigger than left. When i tried to correct that i some of other muscle in my left getting activated can u please suggest me the best solution please. I have no idea wt to do

[brandonh.]

Geez dude a 5 minute vid could have been easily 2:30

[aestheticstrike]

another great video jeff!
I have a question whoch is really important. Im a ex-wrestler. I qiut, so i changed my traing program.

i am not so sure about the balamce between pecs and rhomboids/middle traps and also upper-lower traps.

#pecs
db press-inc. db. prss.-c. grip bench. p-low p. cable. cross.

#back
latpulldown/pullup-underhand lat p.-seated c. grip. low row-

#shoulder
db press.-lateral raise-facepull-external rotation-db shrug.

vertical push=2(if we count shrug)
vertical pull=2
horizontal push=4
horizaontal pull=2(but have lots of rhomboid active exercise like db shrug and underhand lat. pulldown, if we count them it makes 4)

kinda confused sir.
I hope you can help
best regards

[alimehrozi]

do you have any advice on how to activate the chest muscle during my exercises? I'm 6'4 and have really long arms so it's hard to get my chest to activate in presses