Shoulder Strength..

[bswagger]

what are some good conditioning exercises to gain shoulder strength.?

 

[ameragym]

Use dumbbells and start out with very light weights.

Do butterfly's or snow angels in a standing position with your arms straight. (arm lateral or out to the sides). Start with the hands all the way down at your sides and lift till the weights touch together over your head. Lots of reps. Say...50 or more. You can't do 50 or more reps unless your weights are light.

High repetitions will develop resilience and excellent blood supply into your shoulder girdle. Strength will follow along.

Do the same exercise at different angles. Straight out in front all the way up and all the way down.

Do it overhand, underhand, side hands, and eagle.

Do it also with alternating the arms. One going up and the other going down. Then reverse on each rep.

Some of these will work with a single bar instead of dumbbells. Do both single bar and dumbbells.

Again, very light weights and no less than 50 reps. Try to get to 150 reps before you increase the weight. Build up to 50 reps if you can't make 50 with the light weights you have. Start with 2 pounders and when you can do 150 reps for a week then its time to step up to 4 pounders. Go back to 50 reps every time you increase weight.

You will develop amazing shoulder strength and vascularity without getting big muscles.

 

[smileandflip]

handstand holds. stand with you back against a wall, squat down, and crawl up into a handstand with your face against the wall. hold good body position. hold the handstand for as long as you can, eventually working you way up to a 5 minute hold. it's GREAT for shoulder strength

 

[BlairBob]

Pushup position hold, support hold on bars or parallel bars, handstand hold stomach to wall or free.

Pushups, dips, handstand pushups. These can start out as shrugs.

It is still important to work regular pullups, rope climbs, horizontal and upside down pullups for shoulder health as well.