The muscle that retracts your shoulder blades.

[YuMadThough]

Just clearing something up.

Your rhomboids are located behind your trapezius muscles right so they will never be visible.

Your traps run from around the base of your neck to your middle back creating that diamoind shape and the fibres run in different directions mainly horizontaly.

So really the traps is the muscle that you use to shrug your shoulders up and down but they also bring the shoulder blades together towards the spine and the rhomboids only assist in this.

Right?

When doing BB rows for instance you should feel it heavily in your traps since you have to retract your shoulder blades towards each other and the traps is the main muscle that does this?


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[JoeyDaFool]

depends on the angle, the more upright you are the more traps are involved

[Deez 12]

Ace_2004:

Your Trapezius is a multi-functional muscle. Running from vertebrae C7-T12, its used in the elevation,retraction and depression of the Scapula. On the other hand, your Rhomboid Minor (C7-T1) and Rhomboid Major (T2-T5) are solely used for the retraction of the scapula. This means that they are definetly worked in execises like BB Rows and DB Rows.

--Deez12

[Torrtrefireto]

Ace_2004:

Your Trapezius is a multi-functional muscle. Running from vertebrae C7-T12, its used in the elevation,retraction and depression of the Scapula. On the other hand, your Rhomboid Minor (C7-T1) and Rhomboid Major (T2-T5) are solely used for the retraction of the scapula. This means that they are definetly worked in execises like BB Rows and DB Rows.

--Deez12

Repped for that sweet info