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@warriordenny24 It's still going well, 5 days a week. I do 3 sets to failure and rotate around variations. Delts have become a strength rather than weakness over the last year.

@helen2002 Honestly I did 6x a week for a period of time and it started blowing up. But then all the time and effort it took started cutting into other things, so this is me scaling it down lol. In general I agree with most science-based training principles, but I really think some (smaller)...

@helen2002 My statement was meant to be more of an individual data point than an absolute declaration. But it seems to be a trend that many find it recovers quick enough to be hit quite frequently (another similar example may be calves). Maybe most people on average have more slow twitch in that...

@jmercer I've experimented with both 3 and 5 times a week, quite similar results. Better than once or twice. I'm still adding a rep every week or every other week on my lifts, which is solid. Usually test for an AMRAP at the beginning of the week. Relative weight jumps are pretty huge for any...

@itsjoseph Sure, to each their own. I do exactly what you suggest in my Shoulder day anyways, always progressing the total volume for that movement. Otherwise, I find that the extra 4days x ~3sets = 12 sets of Lateral variations throughout the week is nice, fun, probably helpful, certainly not...

@heartfire I still have 2 days completely off.

@mm1992 Well on shoulder day it's certainly a priority movement that gets done when relatively fresh, and is progressively overloaded. I've been doing 3-5x a week for a while now and have noticeably better delts than most people in my gym, despite being smaller and weaker in many other ways...

@pastorjeremylove That sounds good too, it can actually be a bit of a breather between heavier compound movements.

@kukla Agreed good points. Delts are actually the largest upper body muscle in total :) I think we all view side delts as 'small' because we can only use small weights to stimulate them directly. I wonder if we have good fiber type research for this sorta thing..

@quicknthedead On Shoulder day I do progressive Volume and try to beat whatever I did last week. I measure Poundage actually, weight x sets x reps, usually 8 sets or so. I just force out an extra 1-3 reps per session, rest pauses if need be. In Mesocycle fashion I'll likely deload to less sets...

@quicknthedead Nice good luck! If you're prepping/cutting, obviously it should be harder, but I think you can still make some gains because that Frequency will be such a novel stimulus. For me after about 3-4 months of consistent near-daily Laterals, followed by a 5 day vacation, when I came...

@frustratedhusband LOL I totally forgot those existed! Probably because it's the one side delt exercise that I don't like haha. But they're great too, I just get irritated with heavier weights so I have to spend a ton of time doing high rep sets. Sometimes I do them with ropes on a cable...

@frustratedhusband Oh man that's a tough one. I'd say find an exercise variant you don't mind. Heck, maybe even try something random like static hold dumbbells out at 90 degrees (can go nice n light for 40ish seconds and push progression each week a few seconds). Or Bands. Or cables. Or Y pulls...

@justincann Point 2 is important for sure. I like to alternate with machines and cables when possible. Even with DBs I change the angle (luckily I can handle a lot of internal rotation, which is a nice variant). Yeah I don't specialize with frequency on anything else. I came to this from trial...

@pilgrim3d "Stretch" would be at the bottom of the movement, or ideally when using a single-arm cable, with your arm pulled back even further back than 0 degrees, if that makes sense. Max contraction is at 90 degrees or so. Cables are great and probably better in quite a few ways, but I do...

@actere80 Also a fan of the chest expander, and btw if you do it horizontal I think you'll certainly get some side delt action. At least I do, chest expander horizontal pull apart pumps up my entire shoulders. Yeah this is more or less what I'm advocating, except I do it for 5 mins at the end...

@runningfromlawlessness I think more people should try it out for lagging muscles, particularly small ones. Yeah I love having that once a week hard progressive session as a gut check on progress. And in my experience the extra frequency helps it. Maybe it's blood flow to help recovery, just...

@seitsem%C3%A4n For sure, myo-rep/rest-pause are great for anything Laterals and ensure you get in the right volume and aren't going too easy.

@seitsem%C3%A4n Run-the-rack dropset really let's me get it in efficiently if time is an issue. But another trick is just to buy some 20s or 15s DBs for your home and put in 5 mins some time, maybe before a meal.

@seitsem%C3%A4n Yeah that's fair, sometimes for my end-of-workout laterals I'll do cable raises, machine side delts, or different grip/angle DB laterals. Point is, I'm doing something for 3-5 quick sets that's giving decent stimulation but not taking away from anything else. And since side...