Barbell Shrugs

[funk51]

How much weight do you use in your working set for 8 reps with a pause at the top?

do you make the face like arnold when you do your shrugs , i hear that's half the battle.

[YoungBlood]

isolates only the trap muscles.

mcluvin made a pleonasm!

[FREAKgeek]

How much weight do you use in your working set for 8 reps with a pause at the top?

Heavy as possible. Should be more than you can deadlift imo, helps improve the dead by getting used to the feel of heavier weight

[chaos]

Or the deadlft machine...

There's a machine for deadlifts

[d0nny2600]

There's a machine for deadlifts

Surely this would be ridiculously pointless

[local hero]

yeh,, i actual use it alot, for deadlifts... my lower back has been a bit dodgy from swinging huuuge hammers at work, can get away with these... hammer shrug/high pull machine


normal deadlifts do build alot of trap size tho

[Parker]

There's a machine for deadlifts

Yeah, they are also called "shrug machine", I used to use the one at my gym strictly for shrugs...they generally look like this

[WhiteCastle]

Yeah, they are also called "shrug machine", I used to use the one at my gym strictly for shrugs...they generally look like this

I had no idea people use this for deadlifts. But I've never found the need for shrugs since including deadlifts.

[cephissus]

Out of the hundreds, if not thousands of times I've done this exercise I've gotten a pump maybe 3-5 times.

I've felt deadlifts in my traps maybe 2-3 times.

But I'm hoping this will all change soon...

[cephissus]

Yeah, they are also called "shrug machine", I used to use the one at my gym strictly for shrugs...they generally look like this

Oddly enough I remember this machine being advertised for lunges?

I'm pretty sure that's what it says it's for at my gym.

[Parker]

I had no idea people use this for deadlifts. But I've never found the need for shrugs since including deadlifts.

When I first saw it in my gym, years ago, I was like WTF is this, but then I realized what it was for...the gym I went to had limited room for someone to actually perform deadlifts, and for others to walk around them---so a machine deadlift---but, it's ideal for shrugs---hell, one could use a wheelbarrow for shrugs, as that is what the movement feels like.

Now, has anyone seen a diff between rolling at the top of the movement or straight up and down. Levrone rolls at the top of his.

[Parker]

Oddly enough I remember this machine being advertised for lunges?

I'm pretty sure that's what it says it's for at my gym.

You can't really lunge with that, unless you start at the bottom of the movement and go "up", switching each leg...so basically replicating the "lunge" movement in a stationary position...but, the handles are pointed down, thus making it awkward to perform the lunge movement.

[cephissus]

Oh, I know!  I actually tried doing lunges with it once or twice, almost herniated a disc!  

Still, maybe I'm just hallucinating, but I swear I remember a little sticker on the machine showing a guy using it for lunges.

[Marty Champions]

its useless to do isolation exercises unless you go heavy as fuck. if you dont go heavy they dont really test your cardio vascular system

[GWAR]

its useless to do isolation exercises unless you go heavy as fuck. if you dont go heavy they dont really test your cardio vascular system

how bout i take a dump in your mouth

[wild willie]

the best trap movement is shrugging with a 45 pound plate in each hand......making sure to squeeze at the top.....sensational trap pump.......i prefer plate shrugs over the barbell version.

[chaos]

how bout i take a dump in your mouth

Would you do us all that favor?

[local hero]

the best trap movement is shrugging with a 45 pound plate in each hand......making sure to squeeze at the top.....sensational trap pump.......i prefer plate shrugs over the barbell version.

nah, thats pretty limited, even with the strictest movement, weight would be far too light for most

[Parker]

nah, thats pretty limited, even with the strictest movement, weight would be far too light for most

Take said weight, bend over at 45 degree or more....and shrug upwards....do about 10 reps with a really hard squeeze at the top...due to the angle you have a really good trap workout, with lighter weight than you'd use when standing up...