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Am is losing anything by using the smith machine for shrugs over a standard barbell? For pressing movements I don't like it, but seems to be great for shrugs.
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General rule of thumb...machines allow you to focus on the target muscle while free weights allow you to incorporate the stabilizing muscles. Use both but don't just use machines unless your rehabing an injury.Am is losing anything by using the smith machine for shrugs over a standard barbell? For pressing movements I don't like it, but seems to be great for shrugs.
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Oh yeah, most def deadlifts are THE best for trap development. I always follow deads with bb shrugs and smith shrugs though.If you want some big traps do deadlifts, and when you do shrugs go really light. I see so many people out there using 3 and 400 lbs on shrugs and its just stupid, you cannot raise your traps as high as you need to in order to get the right squeeze. The biggest my traps ever got is when I would grab a 45 lb plate in each hand and shrug them really slow controlled, and high as I could and pause for a second at the top. (The iron grip ones with the holes in them) Those plates allow you to get the weight closer to your body which in turn targets your traps more. Try them sometime!!
Agreed. And olympics like cleans and clean pulls. Just look at the traps on female 100m sprinters.If you want some big traps do deadlifts, and when you do shrugs go really light. I see so many people out there using 3 and 400 lbs on shrugs and its just stupid, you cannot raise your traps as high as you need to in order to get the right squeeze. The biggest my traps ever got is when I would grab a 45 lb plate in each hand and shrug them really slow controlled, and high as I could and pause for a second at the top. (The iron grip ones with the holes in them) Those plates allow you to get the weight closer to your body which in turn targets your traps more. Try them sometime!!
I entirely disagree on both points.General rule of thumb...machines allow you to focus on the target muscle while free weights allow you to incorporate the stabilizing muscles. Use both but don't just use machines unless your rehabing an injury.
anything compound exercise is good.So barbell upright row is my choice and it got me about three inches long and about 1/2 to 2 inches thick. a very nice exercise to get that shrug thickerAm is losing anything by using the smith machine for shrugs over a standard barbell? For pressing movements I don't like it, but seems to be great for shrugs.
THanks!
Everyone says this, it seems to work for almost everyone. But I only feel deads in the lower and middle back. To the point were my lower back gets too pumped to continue. For Trap development do you start the movement at bottom with your shoulder blades squeezed tight together and keep squeezed through the lift? I have awesome lower back muscles (like two steel pipes) but terrible upper back. I really want them beefy lumps at the top of your back, thats what fills a shirt out! But I am always bewildered when guys say how much deads kill their traps? Im definately doing something wrong!Never do shrugs anymore. Go heavy on the deads and i assure you your traps will grow. Just be patient. Its absolutely impossible for your traps not to grow if you are doing some serious weight on your deads. End of story. No magic potion.
I love themI've always been a huge fan of power shrugs.
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