The deltoid ... rear deltoid muscles and all of your primary and secondary pulling muscles. You can also perform an assisted pull-up by adding resistance bands as a counterweight to your body weight.

Engage the lats: “The lats stabilise the rear delt, so doing exercises that build the lats further encourages the activation of the posterior muscles on the shoulder blades,” says Joshi.

Absolutely not, and there are definitely some shoulder exercises that are given a little too much glory. Our delts are made ...

Ok, so pike push-ups may not be easy, but if you’re after a bodyweight exercise that’ll smoke your shoulders, then this is it. As well as the delts, triceps, chest, biceps and lats will also ...