Traps Workout - Page 2

jfla32033 · 07-02-2007, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by jampsifit

Overhead Bb Shrugz

Yea I love these. Do them on your knees using the smith machine if you don't have a squatter.

3 sets each of:
overhead bb shrugs, power cleans, DB shrugs = good trap workout

Gorilla34 · 07-02-2007, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Zakira

Dips DO develop traps, too. Here's a corroborating website:

http://old.pinoymuscle.com/old/pages...s_training.htm

whoa...I'm kinda scared that you posted that.....bro needs to put some pants on

BIG CHUCKY · 07-02-2007, 02:51 PM

i reallize now about the capital letters i am new to this and plain forgot. but to be honest if you dont want to offer advice because of something like that then keep it to yourself obviously there are plenty of others out there that can over look a mistake. to those of you who did offer assistance thanks!

D-Y · 07-02-2007, 02:59 PM

Try close grip barbell rows and rear laterals, focus on squeezing the traps.

Frankdaddy · 07-02-2007, 03:19 PM

I sure am going to listen to a website that has pics of a guy in a posing suite that looks about gay, no offense to him lol

oldmanmarley · 07-02-2007, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG CHUCKY

i reallize now about the capital letters i am new to this and plain forgot. but to be honest if you dont want to offer advice because of something like that then keep it to yourself obviously there are plenty of others out there that can over look a mistake. to those of you who did offer assistance thanks!

Well, I was kind of half joking, but it does take more time to read. Anyway, does your gym have a chest-supported T-bar row machine (a hammerstrength machine works, too, but I don't like it as much)? I find that retracting your scapula on this is one of the best ways to work the traps. It's like shurgs but it is forward and backward, not up and down. I've tried the same exercise with dumbells on a bench, and it just isn't the same. The T-bar shrugs lends itself very well to people who train traps on back day, but it can be used on shoulder day, too.

BIG CHUCKY · 07-02-2007, 05:56 PM

dude i appologize for that last post in reference to you keeping your advice to yourself but you kinda caught me off guard and i thought you were being smart but now i reallize you did'nt actually mean it that way but thanks for the exercise i am doing traps in the morning. ill let you know what i think. thanks again.

Uriel_da_man · 07-03-2007, 02:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Zakira

Dips DO develop traps, too. Here's a corroborating website:

http://old.pinoymuscle.com/old/pages...s_training.htm

If you knew anything about anatomy you'd realize that safe for the lowermost fibers the traps are an antagonist, so working traps from dips is like working triceps from curls.

BIG CHUCKY · 07-03-2007, 05:24 AM

uriel any suggestions?

Uriel_da_man · 07-03-2007, 06:57 AM

Rack pulls, shrug variations. It's all be said already.

Try some wide-grip cable rows too. I mean as wide as you bench press, and don't be afraid to put some power into it, 'till your traps start burning.

Zakira · 07-03-2007, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Uriel_da_man

If you knew anything about anatomy you'd realize that safe for the lowermost fibers the traps are an antagonist, so working traps from dips is like working triceps from curls.

No, I don't know anything about the anatomy but I know that dips got me nice traps. Years ago working out at home all I did was pushups and dips. My traps became so noticeable even with my shirt on that I got random comments from people.

Now I work out in the gym but have yet to do shrugs, because I don't see the need to. Maybe I'm a freak, I don't know, but I've never once targeted my traps.

If you yahoo search dumbbell press one of the first pages that come up is that website so that's how I found it, in case people are wondering.

OP was asking for alternatives to shrugs so I thought dips were good, and that's from my own experience.