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Top 5 Women's Shoulders Exercises

Women often overlook the shoulders as they seem to get a good workout when exercising other muscles. However, the shoulders need their own attention. A good set of shoulders always looks amazing.

The Top 5 Women’s Shoulders Exercises

These are my top five shoulder exercises that I have been using lately. I change my top five quite often but you can be assured these always produce results.

1 - Military Press
This is my all time favourite shoulders exercise. I can handle a lot of weight when using this one and I have seen growth in all three shoulder heads as well as my traps when doing this well.

Make sure your grip is perfect when doing this exercise - technique is everything!

2 - Lateral Side Raises
The lateral side raises are an excellent exercise for widening your shoulders. This is very important for people who have thick waists because wider shoulders gives the impression that you have a small waist.

Again, technique is everything so make sure your are not swinging the dumb bells into place and you are doing everything just perfectly!

3 - Seated Dumb Bell Press
I love this exercise because you can focus 100% on the technique when you are sitting down and your balance is taken care of.

Many women I see doing this exercise allow the weight to come in close to their chest and hunch their shoulders. It is important to keep your back straight, chest slightly up as if you were very proud and push the weight up in a slow and controlled fashion.

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4 - Cable Side Raises
I have only been getting into these recently but I have already seen some results. It is so hard, I can only handle a very small weight.

In case you don’t know this one you set a cable pulley on the lowest setting and stand so that your left shoulder is in line with the cable pulley handle. Grab the pulley handle with your opposite hand and proceed to lift it across your body and then up as if doing a side lateral raise. The added tension that the cable provides makes this one a killer.

5 - Shoulder Health Exercises
I’ve added this as a group of exercises instead of one single one in the hope that some readers will realize how important it is to keep the shoulders healthy.

Shoulder injuries are so easy to do and so hard to recover from. If you have sore shoulders it means that almost all other training has to be put on hold. Learn how to strengthen your shoulders without building muscles. It is important to do these exercises all the time.

Does anyone have any other favorites?

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