Wide grip Upright Rows

[Rep]

I never did upright rows bc I heard they can damage your shoulder but I saw a thread were Dude said he loved them and I talked to another guy that loves them. I also seem to notice a lot of guys not doing military presses anymore and skip working front delts altogehter bc it is hit hard on chest day. Can Dude or others tell me how far apart are your hands on upright rows and how far are you bringing the bar up. Also let me know about front delts. training them or not.
Thanks

 

[charliebigspuds]

i do military press every third week when im not going hard on chest if im still sore i wont do them..but i get a great pump and like it that u can cheat a little on the last few if u need to..i dont do much upright row as i dont like the movement but will chuck em in if my gym partner moans to much cuz he likes em..i think military press is a little underrated exercise i never see guys in the gym doing em..but get a lot of em looking when i do.

 

[big in vegas]

When I do wide uprights, if I have a standard barbell, I'll put my pinky fingers on the rings. Or if I use an EZ curl bar (easier on the shoulders in my opinion because of hand placement) I put them on the widest grip possibly.

As far as front delt training, I train them, but make sure I have 2 days rest after before I do chest or if I do chest first in the week, I give myself 2 days rest before doing shoulders. They do get a lot of training from the chest training, but it's a hit or miss for most people. Some people are blessed and don't need to train them directly, but most do. It's kinda like arms, some guys can get away with not training them based on their back and chest work while others have a specific arms day.

 

[The Dude]

When I do wide uprights, if I have a standard barbell, I'll put my pinky fingers on the rings. Or if I use an EZ curl bar (easier on the shoulders in my opinion because of hand placement) I put them on the widest grip possibly.
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I use the same grip but put my ring finger over the ring. I raise the bar until my elbows are parallel to my shoulders. I always use a straight bar. I do no front delt training or at most dumbell presses a few times a year.

 

[formernpc]

Wide grip upright rows are a staple in my shoulder work. I put my middle finger on the ring and make sure to lead with my elbows. This insures my delts are getting blasted. Here is my shoulder workout today actually.

Stretch and warm up.

Side lateral raises (Up the DB rack starting at 30's and ending at 70lbs by increments of 10lbs) x 10 reps

Behind the neck smith machine presses 4 x 8-10 at 275lbs

Front delt seated press (inverted grip on the smith bar rides as close to chin as possible, shoulder width grip) 4 x 8-10 @ 185 - 225lbs

Wide grip Upright rows 4 x 10 @ 135lbs

DB rear delt raises 4 x 10-12 @ 50lbs

cable rear delt crossover 4 x 20 @ 40lbs per side

Peck deck rears 3 x 10 @ 180lbs


Shrugs 5 x 15-20 @ 495lbs

There ya go

 

[Mrbigz]

I love widegrip upright row, if you do them as heavy as possible and as strict as possible, they work perfect to build the outer head of the delts and the peak of the traps......works for me. i love them

 

[big in vegas]

Wide grip upright rows are a staple in my shoulder work. I put my middle finger on the ring and make sure to lead with my elbows. This insures my delts are getting blasted. Here is my shoulder workout today actually.

Stretch and warm up.

Side lateral raises (Up the DB rack starting at 30's and ending at 70lbs by increments of 10lbs) x 10 reps

Behind the neck smith machine presses 4 x 8-10 at 275lbs

Front delt seated press (inverted grip on the smith bar rides as close to chin as possible, shoulder width grip) 4 x 8-10 @ 185 - 225lbs

Wide grip Upright rows 4 x 10 @ 135lbs

DB rear delt raises 4 x 10-12 @ 50lbs

cable rear delt crossover 4 x 20 @ 40lbs per side

Peck deck rears 3 x 10 @ 180lbs


Shrugs 5 x 15-20 @ 495lbs

There ya go

Very impressive workout, no wonder you're a huge motherfucker

 

[big in vegas]

I use the same grip but put my ring finger over the ring. I raise the bar until my elbows are parallel to my shoulders. I always use a straight bar. I do no front delt training or at most dumbell presses a few times a year.

Yea, I forgot to put that I bring the bar up just between my nipples and arm pits. I've even got creative sometimes and went heavier, but use momentum. What I did was basically take the weight all the way to the ground and then brought it up explosively (like a deadlift basically) and then into the upright row

 

[Eat'n Big]

I do my uprights using the lower cable. I pull up pointing elbows out and bring up to mouth. I also do my shrugs using the standing calf raise machine. I blast those traps that way in-between sets of up rights. Then I blast side lateral raises, and then seated machine military. When done I clean up with the head strap/ Head Harness with chain. I do more up rights and shrugs on the calf machine then anything. I'm blessed tho, I dont need much for me traps.

 

[buckns]

Makes me want to do then on my shoulder day .. I'll give em a try

 

[Rep]

NPC Former. Ok, I was told to never do behind the neck presses. When I was young and 300lbs and ON. I could go super-heavy on behind the neck but Ive had some shoulder surgery and was told by the doc that the behind the neck press was prob the reason.
What is your take on that??
thanks

 

[formernpc]

NPC Former. Ok, I was told to never do behind the neck presses. When I was young and 300lbs and ON. I could go super-heavy on behind the neck but Ive had some shoulder surgery and was told by the doc that the behind the neck press was prob the reason.
What is your take on that??
thanks

I never go to where my elbows are below parallel as i believe that is where damage occurs. As you can see I don't go real heavy anymore either. I would rather get my mass from DB work.

 

[big in vegas]

You're right man, as long as you don't go past parallel with your elbows, you'll be good to go. I use my head as a marker for this if I'm not in front of a mirror, once the bar hits the back of my head, it's time to go back up, it's very close to where I'm parallel so it's a good indication of how far to come down

 

[Presser]

I never go to where my elbows are below parallel as i believe that is where damage occurs. As you can see I don't go real heavy anymore either. I would rather get my mass from DB work.

agree with this, though I'm not a fan of wide grip upright rows, and agree with dumbbells work out

 

[yellow snow]

I like wide grip uprights as part of a superset. That being said I like to do them with light weight and squeze at the top; you can get an incredible burn doing it this way.

I like my close grip upright to be heavy; heavy wide grips tend to hurt my wrist and elbows at times.

 

[Pushtoday]

I superset shrugs with upright rows.
But I use dumbbells for the upright row movement.