He’s Just Had Coffee

I’ve always had narrow shoulders. My bone structure’s not sensational, I’ve got a lot of old stress and fear repression habits that hold tension in my shoulders and neck and somehow despite a couple of decades of weight training, the muscles in my shoulders have always been hard to work.

In the last few years, I’ve been dealing with a lot of those old somatic habits and gradually learning how to connect with my shoulders and they’ve been responding better in the gym. But a few weeks ago, I read 8 Weeks to Monster Shoulders at T-Nation and it’s been a kind of break-through.

I’m still on the first half of the workout that’s mostly rehab to help strengthen the whole shoulder girdle before starting on the real hypertrophy work, but already my shoulders feel stronger and look better than they have my whole life.

I’m following everything Cosgrove and Waterbury suggest in the article except exercise frequency. I’m an HST fan, so I’m doing their workout three times a week, being careful about staying away from failure and only doing a little additional work for the rest of my body (in particular I’m only doing a set or two of squats for my legs).

If you’ve got difficult shoulders, give C&W’s workout a try.

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