Muscle Groups Involved
- Upper Traps - Primary
Category
Barbell
Highlights
- Lean forwards slightly and look down a little to make the movement more comfortable.
- Imagine your hands are hooks and just there to keep your arms attached to the weight.
- Pinch your shoulder blades up and together at the top of the movement to get the best contraction.
- Do not let the weights hang at the bottom of the movement.
- Do not roll your shoulders forwards or backwards.
Description
The Barbell Shrug is a standard exercise, used for decades, to build the upper traps. This exercise is especially popular because you can load it up very heavy for a big training stimulus. To perfo
Common Mistakes
Do not use inertia or let the barbell bounce off of your connective tissue
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Pro Tips
Imagine your hands are hooks and just there to keep your arms attached to t
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Purpose
This exercise allows for large weights to be used to train your traps. It c
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Form
You should be able to shrug your shoulders nearly as high with weights as y
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