>makes you look swole as fuck with clothes on, fixes your entire posture and allows you to use the big boy dumbbels at the gym
You do dumbbel shrugs at least twice a week, right anon?
>makes you look swole as fuck with clothes on, fixes your entire posture and allows you to use the big boy dumbbels at the gym
apparently women are not a big fan of traps
I would suggest doing neck exercises instead
thick neck > big traps
Already got a pretty good neck, but furthermore is there aren’t rly any good neck excercisea. I’ve never seen a gym irk that has that neck weight machine and just doing them non weighted isn’t the best.
Nothing gives u a better v taper than properly trained traps.
More trap gains for me.
dont neck exercises fuck up your sleep
No only if some how you can get your neck width to over like 25 inches around then maybe itll start then but no normally not and neck workouts arent all the time anyways
>not normally
>aren't all the time anyways
Are you one of those people who post here and don't even lift?
You must be one of those retards with piss poor reading comprehension. Fuckin gay pussy
i have ascended women.
I will bulk to 25% bf
I will inject 300mg test/week
I will train for strength
I will Shave my head with a razor
Fuck women and fuck simpmorons who cater to them
Opinion discarded, either women like you or they don't. Chasing what you think they'd like is not productive.
This. I work my traps heavily because for some reason it feels awesome, i like what I see in the mirror and they are necessary for a good deadlift.
There are many reasons a woman will dislike me but “omg his upper trapezius are too big for my taste”.
>apparently women are not a big fan of
DIDNT ASK moron
I dunno
Ugliest muscle group ever
Developed traps and necks are what separates the men from the boys. You'll never be truly masculinely handsome with a pencil thin nerd neck. Look at this fucking superhero of a man and tell me his traps don't complement him well
I do, but the problem is over developed traps can make your frame look rounded and diminish your shoulders to give you that capped look. I try to balance that and find good posture helps, but a lot of dudes don't train their rear delts or their supinating shoulder muscles to help them not slouch. Add to that the hours people spend on their phones and keyboards and over developed traps can make you make your frame look way off and really pronounce bad posture by making you look slouched over even more.
Traps are important, but shoulder training is more important if you want to have have that large frame look. Cavaliere is a meme, but facepulls was a lifesaver for my shoulders and got me started on a lot more supinating and rear delt workouts that helped me look better than trap training did.
Great post anon and I completely agree.
Fir mer personally my shoulders have exploded in looks past few months. Huge help in that is as you say rear delt excercuses. That one cable exercise where u drag it slightly behind you with one arm is godtier for it. Not sure what the actual name of it is.
Also lat raises where u bend way forward while sitting hits rly good. + reverse lat raises.
And yeah facepulls is a must.
Overall DB Shrugs > BB Shrugs unless your gym doesn't have heavy DB and/or you got a weak grip strength.
yuhhhhhhhhhhh i love em
Do cleans and high pulls instead, 2 birds one stone if you know what I mean famala Anderson
I've never targeted my traps or my neck in my life and mine look good. I'm pretty sure something in the fundamentals already hits them.
is this true about fixing your posture, because mine is terrible
this
If you do them properly you should eventually be able to shift ur back several centimeters backwards.
The real horror is most people got so bad posture (myself included) that our necks and by that extension our heads are positioned several cm further ahead than it should be.
I’ve gotten to the point now where I legit feel like passing out when I move my head and neck in the correct posture, meaning I’m slowly moving the entire bone structure back in place.
But it’s ridiculously hard considering 99% of us have to sit infrint if a computer at minimum 8 hours a day to make money
Not really, working your traps are primarily for pulling up. Hence shrugs. What you really want to do is have a good balance with your chest. Overdeveloped chests (compared to back) are a huge reason why a lot of bodybuilders have that slouched look. The muscles to counteract the pulling effect your chest will naturally have on your shoulders are underdeveloped. Those muscles are primarily your scapulae and the rear delts.
So rear delts, along with training the supinating muscles on the shoulder (yes, facepulls) will help with posture. Traps may help incidentally, but that's not what is responsible for good posture.
Also, proper posture is a conscious thing a lot more now because of we sit at a keyboard, or are looking down on our phones so much more. So you will have to actively think about it until it becomes natural.
Kind of, rear delts and mid/lower traps do more, and abs if you have anterior pelvic tilt like most people.
Make sure you're doing compound shrugs - start with shoulders protracted + dumbbells slightly in front of you, shrug the weight up, retract your shoulder blades right back, let the weight drop, shrug the weight up again, and roll your shoulders forward to the start position.
Hits traps, rhomboids + rear delts fairly evenly.
Got a video or a pic to show?
No sorry, but you should do this with a lighter weight than you normally shrug with.
no thanks
How am I doing?
Tats are dumb as fuck but otherwise, good work.
Post body
Thanks.
Isn't it better to do them with a trap bar? and what about above the knee rack pulls, are they any good or just and ego lift meme?
These better than the shrug machine? I can do 8pl8 on that and feel like it isn't doing shit
Try doing dumbbell shrugs using straps. You might think it's silly using straps, but your traps are much stronger than you think, you can do a lot more reps if your forearms aren't telling your body to stop shrugging.
how do i effectively train lower traps?
i use a trapbar
when i use dumbells my grip becomes the bottleneck
My friend overdid shrugs at one point and didn't do shoulders and back enough and looked fucking retarded.
>dont deadlift
>dont shrug
>still have some the largest traps in my gym disregarding roiders
How the fuck?
i shrug after every deadlift rep. i do the dead till lockout, wait one second then do a shrug, wait one second then bring the bar down. is this acceptable?
Dont deadlifts develop traps
see
is this better than doing it with a barbell or same thing?
Jeff Nipples seems to think that barbell shrugs are better than dumbbell shrugs, guess it depends on how much you trust him and "The Science"
yes and the entire thing also not just some of it
just deadlift retard