Your shoulders get a workout doing big, compound movements like the overhead and bench press, but a little extra isolation work—particularly on the rear deltoids—can help them get bigger and healthier. Here are two essential exercises for full shoulder development.

Key Exercises to Work Shoulders Effective shoulder workouts combine heavy presses, isolation exercises, and compound movements. Starting with heavy presses lays the foundation for shoulder strength, while isolation exercises target each deltoid head for comprehensive development.

I suggest choosing 3 exercises and complete 3 working sets of 10-to-12 repetitions for each shoulder workout. Do not forget to warm-up the shoulder with lighter weight. Here are two typical routines that I like to do. WEEK 1 - Side lateral raise, dumbell press, front raise. WEEK 2 - Side lateral raise, upright row, rear delt raise.