lol homosexuals who think that occasional shrugs give them bodybuilder tier ridiculous traps are like girls who think touching a barbell makes them too manly
Yes I do dumbbell shrugs. I didn't do them for several years but added them to my routine couple weeks ago again.
I don't see why you wouldn't unless your life is literally so busy that you simply CANNOT spend another 5 minutes in the gym once a week. It's a muscle just like anything else and if you isolate them you will see gains. I added 5 reps in a week to my shrugs, just after doing them once. There's really no reason to not keep the entirety of your body in shape.
yeah dude you will just accidentally gain so fricking freaky amounts of lean muscle mass and blow your traps and look like an ifbb pro yeah totally gonna happen bro better lay off the traps haha
newbies and dyels
you use traps from shoulder stabilization in nearly every exercise known to man. they get big quickly.
since you are the expert right here, what would you say it's better to grow the traps? High reps/volume like shoulders or go heavy on the isolated lifts?
the traps grow directly proportional to the amount of regular weight and activation put forth on them.
For instance you use your traps when you countersway your arms during a walk.
So add 5lbs to your arms and just walk. Your traps will grow larger to compensate.
A lot larger than just doing a few shrugs with some dumbells.
See a common issue is people confuse trap tautness with trap size.
With large weighted shrugs the traps like to squeeze together (usually causing stiff neck or back problems), but once you stretch them out again they aren't actually any bigger (or relatively larger to be more accurate) than if you just didn't exercise them.
>lol homosexuals who think that occasional shrugs give them bodybuilder tier ridiculous traps are like girls who think touching a barbell makes them too manly
this is moronic, any increase in muscle will make me more manly, it's not that we fear turning into shehulk, it's that ANY mass increase is undesirable.
Yes I do dumbbell shrugs. I didn't do them for several years but added them to my routine couple weeks ago again.
I don't see why you wouldn't unless your life is literally so busy that you simply CANNOT spend another 5 minutes in the gym once a week. It's a muscle just like anything else and if you isolate them you will see gains. I added 5 reps in a week to my shrugs, just after doing them once. There's really no reason to not keep the entirety of your body in shape.
yeah dude you will just accidentally gain so fricking freaky amounts of lean muscle mass and blow your traps and look like an ifbb pro yeah totally gonna happen bro better lay off the traps haha
Traps are extremely unaesthetic. If I could restart my weight lifting escapades I'd ignore them completely.
when i see someone, specially natty, with large traps i know thats a person that goes to the gym and lifts
when i dont, thats someone thats destined to look like a dyel
now someone with traps AND broad, juicy shoulders? thats a god on earth right there
Reminder to newbie dyels: You will NEVER have to worry about having too big of an upper back
Everyone I see with big traps is a shoulderlet like in OP's pic. Every single one is a beanpole. I've never seen an exception besides some roiding gigahomies who everyone knows isn't natty and has been juicing since 13.
Traps are extremely unaesthetic. If I could restart my weight lifting escapades I'd ignore them completely.
moron
this.
traps are ridiculously hard to grow in size, even with isolating exercises.
My Traps are naturally big and respond extremely well to stimulation.
Ignore the guy dissing your insertions. If you’re natural your traps look great. One of the most important muscles for looking strong in a shirt and with normies. If they don’t think you’re roiding you’ll seem super strong to them since traps are hard to grow naturally.
Thanks, yeah I'm natty and older, almost 40. For some reason shrugs are disproportionately easy for me compared to other lifts. Was just unsure if I'm building a shitty physique because of them since my shoulders aren't that wide to begin with.
when i see someone, specially natty, with large traps i know thats a person that goes to the gym and lifts
when i dont, thats someone thats destined to look like a dyel
now someone with traps AND broad, juicy shoulders? thats a god on earth right there
This. If you're doing laterals, OHP, barbell rows and deadlifts, isolating traps is not really necessary. For beginners wanting to look good in a t shirt it's not a bad idea though. They are easy to train and easy to gain.
Rate traps pls. I love doing shrugs, they're one of my strengths, but I always read DON'T DO SHRUGS. I just don't know anymore, should I keep doing them?
Ignore the guy dissing your insertions. If you’re natural your traps look great. One of the most important muscles for looking strong in a shirt and with normies. If they don’t think you’re roiding you’ll seem super strong to them since traps are hard to grow naturally.
Thanks, yeah I'm natty and older, almost 40. For some reason shrugs are disproportionately easy for me compared to other lifts. Was just unsure if I'm building a shitty physique because of them since my shoulders aren't that wide to begin with.
no, i usually train traps with others around
this. need the mires.
lol homosexuals who think that occasional shrugs give them bodybuilder tier ridiculous traps are like girls who think touching a barbell makes them too manly
this.
traps are ridiculously hard to grow in size, even with isolating exercises.
newbies and dyels
you use traps from shoulder stabilization in nearly every exercise known to man. they get big quickly.
since you are the expert right here, what would you say it's better to grow the traps? High reps/volume like shoulders or go heavy on the isolated lifts?
the traps grow directly proportional to the amount of regular weight and activation put forth on them.
For instance you use your traps when you countersway your arms during a walk.
So add 5lbs to your arms and just walk. Your traps will grow larger to compensate.
A lot larger than just doing a few shrugs with some dumbells.
See a common issue is people confuse trap tautness with trap size.
With large weighted shrugs the traps like to squeeze together (usually causing stiff neck or back problems), but once you stretch them out again they aren't actually any bigger (or relatively larger to be more accurate) than if you just didn't exercise them.
Just do heavy diddlies and heavy shrugs, light weights do frickall for traps
I literally have to go out of my way to not grow my traps
>lol homosexuals who think that occasional shrugs give them bodybuilder tier ridiculous traps are like girls who think touching a barbell makes them too manly
this is moronic, any increase in muscle will make me more manly, it's not that we fear turning into shehulk, it's that ANY mass increase is undesirable.
>ANY mass increase is undesirable
No
>she touches the barbell
>picks it up and puts it back down again
>Increase in mass on that ass
>desirable
Which is even more fricking moronic.
No, my traps get enough attention from other exercises. At least to the extent I want. I don't need to isolate them.
>No, my traps get enough attention
Yeah, my big fat bbc
No, large traps look ridiculous.
Yes I do dumbbell shrugs. I didn't do them for several years but added them to my routine couple weeks ago again.
I don't see why you wouldn't unless your life is literally so busy that you simply CANNOT spend another 5 minutes in the gym once a week. It's a muscle just like anything else and if you isolate them you will see gains. I added 5 reps in a week to my shrugs, just after doing them once. There's really no reason to not keep the entirety of your body in shape.
yeah dude you will just accidentally gain so fricking freaky amounts of lean muscle mass and blow your traps and look like an ifbb pro yeah totally gonna happen bro better lay off the traps haha
Reminder to newbie dyels: You will NEVER have to worry about having too big of an upper back
this
I go twice as hard on my pull days than I do my push days. I'd rather have a huge back than a huge chest or have t Rex quads
Picrel is my progress
they only look weird on dudes with short trap insertions and small shoulder width/frame.
If you got the real estate to build, fricking build it.
What if you don't have the real estate to build? I have a very narrow frame
If you don't roid you will never have this problem
This only happens to roiders
>uhh no i don't train, i don't want to look too big
Holy shit EXIT this board you fricking homosexual
Everyone I see with big traps is a shoulderlet like in OP's pic. Every single one is a beanpole. I've never seen an exception besides some roiding gigahomies who everyone knows isn't natty and has been juicing since 13.
moron.
moron
My Traps are naturally big and respond extremely well to stimulation.
Based traps.
Are people with narrower frames doomed to look like the guy on the left? I'd rather be dyel
OHP ~6-10 reps and dead hang pulls+chins.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Traps are extremely unaesthetic. If I could restart my weight lifting escapades I'd ignore them completely.
I get plenty of upper traps work from lateral raises.
when i see someone, specially natty, with large traps i know thats a person that goes to the gym and lifts
when i dont, thats someone thats destined to look like a dyel
now someone with traps AND broad, juicy shoulders? thats a god on earth right there
Just do lateral raises while leaning forward. Blasts traps and rear delts.
This. If you're doing laterals, OHP, barbell rows and deadlifts, isolating traps is not really necessary. For beginners wanting to look good in a t shirt it's not a bad idea though. They are easy to train and easy to gain.
I train everything in isolation because I have a home gym
this. it also doesn't help that i don't have friends
important to note that trap exercises helps you get a thicker neck.
so you better start doing it.
Amazing how smaller traps look better
it’s simply not an aesthetic physique broski
you're not scaling the heads correctly you fricking moron. that's why some look off. but yeah wider shoulders are better no shit
dweeb ass homie scale it yourself then you dyel frick ugly ass virgin sperging all over my dick lmao!
shieet Black person kys
What do I do to avoid the left one?
I dont know what your point is, the guy on the right still looks better
Gene editing in the womb.
Make sure your mother’s father is a wide-clavicled chad next time
Post same shoulder width for once
right mogs left
right still mogs left wtf oh no facebros we got too wienery
Yeah, Shrug bar for 20 rep sets with light weight and a squeeze at the end of a back workout
They get hit hard with rows and deads already
>cropping the weights on left and the hips on right
kys Black person brain
No, deadlifts are more than enough
Rate traps pls. I love doing shrugs, they're one of my strengths, but I always read DON'T DO SHRUGS. I just don't know anymore, should I keep doing them?
you have shit trap insertions. they look sinewy and too curvy
Ignore the guy dissing your insertions. If you’re natural your traps look great. One of the most important muscles for looking strong in a shirt and with normies. If they don’t think you’re roiding you’ll seem super strong to them since traps are hard to grow naturally.
Thanks, yeah I'm natty and older, almost 40. For some reason shrugs are disproportionately easy for me compared to other lifts. Was just unsure if I'm building a shitty physique because of them since my shoulders aren't that wide to begin with.
dude its a fricking nice physique, mirin
looking good except the traps man
Traps are amazing. Don't listen to these dweebs.
What is with you gays hating big traps? I actually just don't get it at all.
If you think right is better, Zyzz is calling you a massive fricking homosexual from heaven.
Show the birthing hips
no doubt the idiot on the left is holding some weights just like:
do NOT take front pictures holding weights
homie on top looks like Jeff Cavaliere face-blasted with a de-aging ray, unfortunate genetics there
kek this was exactly my thought and holy witnessed
shrugs
No
how do I avoid this mode
John was 5'6"
die and it will be avoided
Slam delt flys
do farmers walk with respectable weight and you will never have to do shrugs again
traps are social creatures, better to train them in groups or with other trainers