Is this an effective shoulder routine?

[DJ Girevik]

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/jason9.htm

The whole pre-exhaustion pump thing seems kind of odd and more for temporary size than actual muscle build to me, although pre-exhaustion is good for mental toughness. Does getting the blood loaded into your muscles and then doing the heavy sets with them actually build size better than not using pre-exhaustion? And what about strength-wise?

 

[KmZDon]

seriously though, we can't help you, a dumbbell curl can work for me but not for you and so on
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I don't think that'll work, overloading your muscle(s) with blood only temporary and then having to work again

 

[HowardRoarkLaughed]

I'm quite ignorant when it comes to weight training techniques and terminology. But I do exercise quite a bit with free weights on my own, as well as doing push-ups and sit-ups and running.

I probably do everything wrong, but I think I look decent. My shoulders are especially good. What I've done for shoulders over the last couple years is use very light free weights (laugh if you will, but I started with 5lb ones my Mom had.) I hold the weights to my side with my arms straight and while keeping my arms straight I lift them straight out to my sides. Becuase I use weights that are pretty light I do like a million reps to failure. Of course I also try to lift them out in front of me sometimes or slightly behind me to work all of my shoulders.

I'm sure this sounds retarded to you guys that know what you're doing, but I have very dense, hard, shoulder muscle and you can see all the various striations in them when I move my arms around. So I'm happy with it.

Someone tell me how I can do my shoulders better and maybe it will help the guy who started this thread.


*edit* I'm sorry I didn't search first, I'm an idiot newbie.

 

[DJ Girevik]

If you can do dips, chins and pullups, do those. Those work the shoulders too.