Shoulder Feeders To Start The Day
(written a few weeks back)
What do you do with the last 2 minutes before you walk out the door?
A feeder session seems the obvious answer. Shoulders. Why? Because they’re more badass than curls.
1 quick set of lateral raises.
It works exceedingly well despite only using a pair of 10s.
The fact your traps take over is a ok.
Traps activated feel good, improve your posture, and make you feel more animalistic.
That’s exactly what you want before opening the door and stepping out into the world.
Shoulder feeders always do good things for me.
Last year a month of them upped my press, both military and bench.
7-10 days of them this time around brought my shoulders up a level. Once I got back into the weight room the frequency dropped to 2 or 3 days a week.
I needed them this morning. It gave a solid boost. Any time I go out aside from the gym it makes sense to do.
There are short term and long term benefits.
Shoulder Feeders For Carrying Yourself With Confidence
(the recent rewrite)
It takes about a minute, and a pair of 10lb dumbbells will do.
A moment before you put on your shirt and step out the door you’ll take those dumbbells and do one high rep set of lateral raises.
I usually do 50-60 reps, and hold the last rep at the top for a few seconds.
It pumps the traps and the deltoids, and helps you stand a little straighter.
Placebo or not, on “work” days doing this before stepping out the door has made a noticeable impact on how I feel, how I get shit done, and the responses I get from the world.
I’m standing tall, unphased by bullshit, and look damn good.
I notice and am noticed.
-J
Postscript (which includes some funny anecdotes from today) :
I felt like throwing em both up as I unintentionally wrote it out a second time. Try it. You will carry yourself better.
Fuck it, may as well throw up some music.
Was banging my head to this between lever squat sets, and this Native American looking chick on another leg machine was looking at me, head banged for a moment, and smiled at me. Gave me a good laugh.
Also I had the funniest broken equipment thing happen.
So the gym has essentially no clips, hang clean and press without clips is best using only 2 plates per side for everything over 135. I started to load the bar with a pair of 45s, realized I’d need 3 plates a side with this, saw the 25kg plates, realized a 25kg+10lb each side would give me the 175lb I wanted and pulled the plate off. The rotating sleeve came with it. Look at the end of a barbell, for it to rotate there’s a nut there screwed in. That was very loose to say the least. And up to the desk it was… “y’all got a wrench” while presenting the sleeve and nut. My asking the gear head at desk if he wanted me to bring up the rest of the barbell too caused a PMS like outburst from him. There’s so much I could say cause of that. “My Impressions Of Roiders” sounds like an article for another time.