Thanks guys.
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Originally Posted by hackskii  I would venture to say your front delts and chest are overpowering your rear delts and rhomboids.
Classic weight lifter problem of muscle inballance.
I would do rotator exercises and more bent over rows and rear delts.
Not raising your arm sounds like rotator to me though but you will have to do more pulling exercises including dead lifts.
Do not do anything behind the neck like military presses or pulldowns or pullups, never do those behind the neck. |
I think I've confused you Hacksii, when I refer to my 'anterior' delt, I mean the front one. Since I started training more seriously I've done plenty of rows, pull-ups & deads & have generally made ok gains, but the areas I've struggled in are chest & front delts. I did behind the head pull-downs for a little while about 1 & 1/2 yrs ago, but stopped when I found out about the negative effects.
When pushing upwards or to the front, even before failure, I can feel the front delt straining to lift.
Maybe dropping pulling exercises might help, but then this problem existed before I really started doing these properly.
I don't do front raises at the moment, but what if I did these solely on my left (weak) side? What about front lateral raises (
http://exrx.net/Lists/ExList/ShouldWt.html#anchor786678) as these are supposed to isolate the supraspinatus, if that is where the problem lies?
Cheers.