Chris Duffin is a world-renowned strength coach and record-holding powerlifter with over 2 decades of experience in strength sports. His methods are used and taught across the world from weight-rooms to university classrooms. He is the co-founder and CEO of Kabuki Strength, an organization devoted to creating innovative tools, methods, and education for the community. Please note that this article contains material from our subscription-based movement portal - Kabuki.MS - and is being provided to you free-of-charge. If you want to support the production of further content like this, we encourage you to subscribe to KMS. Use coupon code "onemonthfree" to get your first month's subscription for free.Lets start with what this article is not. It is not a top 5 exercises to develop great looking delts with lateral, front, and rear delt raises to develop each of the heads. Don’t worry you will develop some amazing looking delts in the process as that also happens to be the output of strong healthy shoulders.[caption id="attachment_28328" align="alignleft" width="443"] The Author's Shoulders[/caption]It is a piece to help you develop strong, healthy, and powerful shoulders that can deliver tremendous power while reducing risk of injury in such a complex joint. This top 5 is for developing functional strength movements for the shoulders. Yes, I said the dreaded word ‘functional’. But I’m not talking namby-pamby soda can exercises, I’m talking real movements that develop strength while helping improve the operating mechanics of the shoulders. If you’re not familiar with my background or approach I am certainly a coach and athlete interested in real-world results and believe that stronger is better, so you won’t find remedial PT exercises promoted by me. While I am best known as coach and movement specialist these days, I’ve been (or am depending on your outlook) one of the best pure strength athletes...