How To Force Your Shoulders To Grow (Try at home)

Doing push-ups every day and your shoulders still look narrow? Push-ups mostly train the front of your shoulder. What makes you look wide is the side, and a push-up never works it the way it grows. Your shoulder has three parts: a front, a side and a back. This video shows how to grow the side with a side raise done the way a study of competitive bodybuilders found works it hardest, why you can mostly skip front raises if you already do push-ups, and how to build the back of your shoulder at home with nothing but a sturdy table. Then the three things that decide whether any of it works, and a simple plan. What you will learn: • Why push-ups don't make your shoulders wider • Why every centimetre on the side of your shoulder counts twice • The three side-raise fixes: near-straight arms, thumbs forward, no shrugging • Why water jugs or a backpack of books work as well as dumbbells, and why you don't need a cable machine • Why front raises mostly repeat work your push-ups already do • The wide table row: the home exercise for the back of your shoulders, with an easier and a harder version • Hard sets, adding reps before weight, and the food that builds width • A two-to-three-day plan and a tape-measure test for 12 weeks Chapters 0:00 Push-ups build the wrong part 0:34 The side 1:46 The front 2:15 The back 2:57 What makes it work 3:35 The plan This is for skinny guys whose shoulders look narrow, beginners training at home without equipment, and anyone doing push-ups every day without getting any wider. Research mentioned: Sell, Lukaszewski and Townsley 2017 (Proceedings of the Royal Society B) on how strong a body looks and how attractive it is rated; Coratella et al. 2020 (IJERPH) on side raise variations in competitive bodybuilders; Rabello et al. (Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies), a systematic review of 33 deltoid activity studies; Larsen, Wolf, Schoenfeld et al. 2025 (Frontiers in Physiology) on dumbbell vs cable side raises over 8 weeks. Subscribe for science based fitness, form fixes and no equipment workouts, drawn in manga ink. #shoulders #shoulderworkout #homeworkout