Pump Up Your Shoulders With Slow-Mo Hang Clean and Press
1,558 views · Published 29 January 2018 · 3:47 · Indexed 21 October 2026
Channel: Nick Nilsson - the Mad Scientist of Muscle · 2018 · Sports
The delts thrive on constant tension. Yet a lot of the shoulder training you see in the gym consists of a lot of throwing around of weights without control. Granted, there is definitely a time and place for power training and explosive overhead pressing. I'm not arguing that. What IS needed, though, is shoulder training that takes all momentum OUT of the movement, focusing on that constant, highly-targeted muscle tension. I'll tell you right up front, I RARELY recommend purposefully slow movements. Most of the time, I recommend accelerating the weight into the contraction to maximize force development in the muscles. However, in this case, we're doing the complete opposite of that and purposefully slowing down what would normally be a very powerful and explosive movement...the hang clean and press. This one is not about building strength in the shoulders...it's about building muscle mass via constant tension and loading on the deltoid muscles, WITHOUT using any momentum at all. It's very similar in concept to a Cuban Press, if you're familiar with that exercise. The key things to remember with this exercise are... 1. Slow movement 2. Light weight 3. Wide arc on the bottom half. This can be used either as a shoulder warm-up (as the Cuban Press often is) or as a finisher (which I prefer because of how it burns out the delt muscles). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be 10-15% stronger on dumbbell curls INSTANTLY with this science-based hack... https://www.fitstep.com/metamorphosis/landers/contralateral-curls.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to my YouTube channel and Facebook page for more unique exercises and unconventional training methods: YouTube Channel ► http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nilssonnick Facebook ► http://www.facebook.com/nicknilssonmadscientist Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/nicknilsson1/
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