The shoulder muscles are the deltoids, though some people call the traps the shoulders. For the delts overhead dumbbell presses (can be done with palms in or palms forward, both arms at a time or alternating), military press, push press, clean and press, lateral raises, front raises, rear delt flies, cuban press, external rotation...bodybuilding.com has pics/vids of how to do all these correctly.
adrian wrote:is the shoulder muscle the deltoid or the trapezius?
and...what is teh best excercise to train them with DUMBELLS~
Seated Dumbbell Press AKA Military Press
Side Lateral Raises
Front Lateral Raises
Bent Lateral Raises AKA Bent Dumbbell Flyes
Dumbbell Shrugs
Dumbbell Arnold Press
Upright Row
if u dont know how to perform any of these excersies just put them on google images
you have dominant traps that are doing all the work over the weaker delt muscles...immediatley before each set of raises, stretch your traps gently pulling your to each side and then 45 degrees to the front each side holding each x 15secs...also keep shoulders down and back the whole time and stop all shrugs if your doing them
Presses. You're likely to get a more overall result doing those. Prsonally I just double up Presses with a Pec Deck. I'd only do Flyes occasionally when the Deck is huge volume of traffic, and I can't put off the other other bit of Chest training any longer, and I don't have time to faff about waiting.
Well DB Shoulder Presses, do stimulate more of the Lateral Delt, you're correct, but obviously due to the nature of the work, there could be some secondary emphasis / stimulus, on the Anterior and Posterior Delts too, but mainly it is viewed as a Lateral Delt exercise yes.
