Rear deltoids with back workout?

[alexschool]

Does anyone else do rear delts with back workout as opposed to chest/shoulders? I know they're technically part of the shoulder muscles, but they seem to correspond more with back exercises than they do with shoulders. and also, will working rear deltoids on a different day than anterior and lateral delts create an imbalance of some sort?

 

[Rein]

I've always liked to train front/side delts after chest and rear delts/traps after back. Then I take a day off which usually is Wednesday and then do legs on Thursday and Arms on Friday.

 

[Braw16]

I've always worked mine with back. It seems for me this works out better as for an inbalance in muscle not to sure on that one. I think I'm pretty balanced with mine and I wouldn't think so but again not sure on that one. Good question I've thought about this one before.

 

[uphillclimb]

ABout a year ago, I switched to doing rear delts twice/week.

First is on back day, I typically do cables in between working sets to implement "active rest" but it's all burnout high rep shit and then on legs day, same concept but I focus on Dumbbells opposed to cables and go heavy.....I love the way that they came in....made a huge difference IMO and helped BB rows.

 

[Rein]

ABout a year ago, I switched to doing rear delts twice/week.

First is on back day, I typically do cables in between working sets to implement "active rest" but it's all burnout high rep shit and then on legs day, same concept but I focus on Dumbbells opposed to cables and go heavy.....I love the way that they came in....made a huge difference IMO and helped BB rows.

Sounds like a good plan to me!

 

[uphillclimb]

It's actually one of my body parts that I focused on because I saw immediate results where I had a deficiency.....makes the shoulders and tri's look bigger.....feels like I have a couple bananas hanging off when I do a double bicep/back pose.

Legs, rear delts and shrugs I'll do twice/week.....at least 2 out of the 3 are done twice depending on scheduling and time.

 

[kbordner]

I am with Rein....Front and side with chest and rears with lats/traps.

 

[midevil]

I like to hit the rear delts when I train shoulders.

mixing it up is always good.. but as a rule I find I can hit them harder on shoulder day..

 

[Rein]

I like going 4 days per week to the gym. I feel it offers the best of both worlds. Growth and recovery. A 5 day split though works the best IMO but I prefer it when I am on cycle.

 

[big_paul_ski]

I've always liked to hit mine on back day but it varies. If I exhausted after back is done I just hit them on shoulder day. I like having that flexibility. At the end of the day it all comes down to preference IMO.

 

[kbordner]

One thing I have been doing lately is hitting rear delts first on back day....There is something about rear delts.....nothing looks cooler than good rear delts. Well maybe not anything.

 

[Fury]

I do shoulders and traps together when I do shoulders one week I will only use dumbells the next week I use machines just found it easy on my shoulders