Q&A for How to Get Wider Shoulders

Work on your lats and rear shoulder muscles to make your shoulder's appear wider. You can try dumbbell rows, barbell rows, pullup rows, reverse flys, and face pulls.

Try weight lifting, including the exercises listed here as well as pushups and chin-ups. Aim for resistance training three times per week to build a strong and strong- looking upper body. You need to feel the burn in your muscles to achieve results, but work up gradually. The shoulder is easy to injure.

Push ups cannot change your bone structure. However, since push-ups work the front of the shoulder as well as the chest muscles, yes, building these muscles through doing push-ups will make the shoulders bigger.

With consistent training twice or three times per week, you can expect to see results in 6-8 weeks. If you have a BMI between 18-24, your efforts will be visible more quickly than if you have fat covering the muscle so consume a healthy diet and include cardio to look your best.

It varies depending on age, but for an 18 year old woman, the average shoulder width is 14 inches or 35 cm.

There's no one body part that makes you look bigger; however, the big muscle groups to hit are the back, chest, shoulders, thighs, glutes and calves.

Lateral dumbbell arm raises build the cap of the shoulder, making the shoulders bigger.

Yes. Even, if your body is done growing, you can still use strength training exercises to broaden your shoulders.

Hard muscles means high muscle tone in technical terms (i.e., relatively high tension in your muscle even when it's relaxed). If this is what you want, more "isometric" exercises will help -- do resistance training in which your joints remain still. For example, you can try static push-ups: keep yourself in the lowest position of a push-up where elbows are 90 degrees, and aim to stay in a position for as long as possible. If you do bench presses, stop at the position where your elbows are 90 degree for 3-5 seconds in each rep.

Depending on the age of the child, he or she can enroll martial arts, gymnastics, or swimming lessons. This may help build some upper body muscle that may give the appearance of wider shoulders. Keep in mind that a child's body is still growing and developing, and that his or her shoulders will become wider naturally.

Use 5 pound weights and raise your hands at a level near your shoulders. Then, close your arms in front of you and open them.

They may get a little wider, puberty affects everyone differently, at different ages, etc. There's no harm in working out if you'd like to broaden your shoulders.

Muscle growth comes from the muscles recovering after a workout. As such, you should allow yourself a day off between workouts, and stick to every other day.

Yes, you can use the same types of exercises to build your shoulder muscles. Just be sure to use weights that are manageable for you and slowly build up to heavier ones over time so you don't injure yourself.

I guarantee your shoulders are not 41 inches. Make sure you measure the distance from shoulder to shoulder, not around your torso.

Age really doesn't matter, you can definitely broaden your shoulders at 21.

As a rule, stop as soon as you feel pain. Let your body rest and give it time to heal. If you have any doubts, ask your doctor. If your work out neglects certain parts of your body, they may become comparatively weaker, and be unable to keep up with the other, stronger parts of your body. Alternatively, it could be because you do not warm up enough beforehand or stretch enough after a workout. The importance of these cannot be overstated.

The most important part of any weight gain regimen is always diet. Eating as often as you can will put on weight, with the right workout routine accompanying this. In fact, weight can easily be gained without working out if you're willing to put in the time to eat as frequently as possible. Eating healthier foods will allow you to build more muscle and less fat as you go.

You are still growing so give it a few more years and they will get slightly wider than they are now.

There are no shortcuts, but if you can, eat more protein to gain muscle faster, and maintain a healthy diet.

There is currently no scientific evidence that weight training inhibits growth. So yes, it is safe for any age provided you are using appropriate amount of weight fitting to your bone and muscle strength. Personally I would not recommend large weights for a 12-year-old. You do not have enough testosterone to effectively stimulate muscle growth anyway. Aim for consistency instead, use 3-5 lb weights and train on a regularly basis, and pay close attention to your form. I found it extremely helpful to develop good workout habits and techniques from an early age. You'll be surprised how those puny weights can make you way ahead of your peers later on.

Yes, it will improve. Don't forget to eat lots of protein and drink plenty of water to gain muscle mass as well.

No.

Learn to love yourself. This will stop you from worrying about such small matters. The only person who really notices and cares about this is likely yourself.

You should work out enough that the muscles you were working on feel spent and a little sore, but not excruciatingly so.

Avoid working your shoulder muscles further than necessary. Don't completely stop exercising this part of your body, but don't work until you feel your muscles burning.

Because shoulder width is mainly a matter of bone structure, it's not likely you'll be able to make yours narrower. Losing considerable weight (and muscle size) could help a little.

If you don't feel any serious pain while training, it's not too much. Two or three times a week could be enough. You'll begin to see a difference in a couple of weeks, an obvious difference in a month or two.

It will be very hard to build muscle on the keto diet. The keto diet does not allow you to eat a lot of protein as some of the protein can turn into carbs.

I would get some resistance bands like Jager J-bands and Synergy hip bands and look up exercises to do with those. If you can’t get your hands on those, try different kinds of push-ups like a frame push-ups, scap push-ups, etc. Also try crawling moves like a crab walk, a-frame crawl, monkey crawl and others.