How can I develop shoulders? Is swimming good enough?

Question

My shoulder and my waist line is almost at the same width, maybe shoulders are a little less , I'm 28 and want to get some width to shoulders, I do swimming, is that enough, what can i do to improve?

Answer 1

The first thing I noticed with my shoulders was when I was at the gym and there was a machine where you sit down and rest your chest on a pad. Then you reach forward and grasp two handles with your knuckles upwards or your knuckes facing ouward. And you pull the weights toward your chest. I started with about 25-30 lbs and then over the year I worked up to 100 lbs. I would do two sets of 15 with a ten minute rest in between doing other weight machines.

The hard part was giving up ice cream for 9 months.

But another shoulder thing I did was on the calendar. I kept track of two things. I kept track of how many push ups I did per day in red pen. I started with 15 push ups a day and now am up to 55-60 a day or depending on other exercise on my bicycle. In blue pen, I keep track of stomach crunches. I lay on my back with my knees up and I do half crunches. I go up halfway to the knees. I also do crunches where one of my elbows touches my knee and alternate knees. I started doing about 50 of those a day spread out and now am up to 200 or so depending. These I like to do while watching a dvd or the news on tv.

As you lose weight around the waist, your shoulders will look larger naturally. Lastly, after starting the push ups (some on knuckles and some on my palms) my bowling scores have gone up quite a bit. My average used to be 150 and now it is 175.

good luck,

Jonathan

Answer 2

Jonathon's got the good news... you need to do some seated rows and push ups like he suggests and weight training, lose some weight, all great advice..

He omitted chin ups... these provide a broad strong back... that is what swimming training does for you too... A fair bit of butterfly built into your cardio routine will help strengthen your back and make you look broader. The cardio aspect of swimming will trim you down if you do enough of it and watch what you eat.

Answer 3

Hey buddy, I've a really good suggestion for you. Many people do pumping to have great shoulder muscle and i think that should be the way. If you want a better result, don't do it in full way, just do it in half way and none-stop until you get really tired. You'll see the result faster, trust me.

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

You must swim butterfly style. Only that will build your shoulder.

There is another way which I used because I cannot swim butterfly style. Buy a chest expander. It looks like this.
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Answer 6

Arnold Press seems to work good for me, swimming is always good too, but not for growth.