[BendtheBar]

Originally Posted by glwanabe

A little more.

I'm not saying never to chest work. I'm saying that Deltoids should be given a higher priority then chest, especially with newer lifters. Your shoulder socket is a complex, important point on your body. Far to many people injure themselves from poor weak shoulders. Once you have built some good solid balanced delts, then start putting some effort into chest.

Standing presses, and dips will yield good compound upperbody strength, and give you a good base to build from later.

I think this is a solid approach. Too many young lifters are lateral-a-holics on the delts, and don't focus on strengthening them.

When I really started to focus on delts, my bench rocketed up.