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View Poll Results: Do you work Traps with Back or Shoulders?
Back 149 41.50%
Shoulders 210 58.50%
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Old 12-07-2006, 04:24 AM   #61
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i work them on by back traps & shoulders day
 
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Old 12-26-2006, 07:03 PM   #62
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I work traps on shoulder day plus my traps get worked out during deads
 
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Old 01-11-2007, 07:58 PM   #63
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i sometimes dont do just trap exercises since i do heavy dead lifts

so i guess u could say back...but if i want to do a trap workout i'll do it on shoulder days
 
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Old 01-11-2007, 08:25 PM   #64
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i train my traps with back and shoulders cause the only thing i do is shrugs but what i do is one day a go with dumbells and one day with the barbell
 
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Old 04-16-2008, 12:38 AM   #65
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you hit them as secondaries on either workout day...after killing them doing back I never thought I'd get much of a workout with them on back day.

so, I vote with Shoulders
 
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Old 05-14-2008, 10:21 PM   #66
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All of the above, with shoulders, with back, by themselves. It varies.

Traps are a back muscle, true, but that 15% ontop is heavily involved with the scapular elevation movements, which shoulder days excite more of. It's also the most prominent portion of the traps that are visible with "shirt on" or beater. The scapular retraction movements, which would be the remaining 75%, will excite your posterior traps to swell as if they're being worked, but not in that scapular elevation kind of way.

I personally prefer hitting my traps with a back day for the very reason that traps are involved in every other back exercise I perform, but they seem to get a deeper stimulation when I do traps on a shoulder day. Much more elevation going on and direction stimulation of the posterior traps.
 
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Old 06-11-2008, 10:50 AM   #67
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I used to do them with shoulders and now do them with back. I do deadlifts on back day and get the workout for them there and then do shrugs. I tend to feel it more the next day when doing them with back. Plus I have been focusing so much on shoulders that they get beat up enough on their day and I don't have much energy afterwards.
 
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Old 06-11-2008, 11:11 AM   #68
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I don't do any direct trap work either.. Deads, rack deads, do just fine.
 
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Old 06-11-2008, 06:58 PM   #69
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If I hit traps directly it's on shoulder day.I feel my traps working more from raises then I do deads.My traps get pumped after my first set of front or side raises.Plus shoulder day for me is always quick.
 
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Old 06-11-2008, 07:00 PM   #70
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shy-ron25
i train my traps with back and shoulders cause the only thing i do is shrugs but what i do is one day a go with dumbells and one day with the barbell
You should do behind the back shrugs as well.
 
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Old 06-12-2008, 12:50 AM   #71
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Old 06-14-2008, 06:32 AM   #72
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Screw shrugs...I do deadlifts for my traps.
 
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Old 06-14-2008, 09:59 AM   #73
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I'm currently looking to overtrain my traps, so I train them 4x a week. As soon as I'll take my week off they'll grow. At least that's the idea.
 
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Old 06-14-2008, 01:09 PM   #74
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I do my heavy shrug work after my squat/deadlift work (same day for me). If I want some higher volume then I may do them again later that week, light, with dumbbells or a machine just to get some blood in the muscles.
 



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Old 06-19-2008, 09:08 PM   #75
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I just remebered reading markus ruhel saying he works his traps on their own day.He does them after cardio and says it takes him like 15 minutes.
 
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Old 07-11-2008, 12:46 PM   #76
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Originally Posted by handzilla
Do you work Traps with, Back or Shoulders and why?
I voted for back workouts, But I think it comes down to preference. Although, I think over head presses (or inclines) work traps I do my shoulders on arm day and it’s just too long to work traps, too. Since deadlifts also work traps, I work them on back days when I don’t deadlift.
 
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Old 07-11-2008, 05:07 PM   #77
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