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Traps - May 5 2008 22:12:00
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BronxBoy68
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Traps aren't growing they way I'd like. Currently doing shrugs which I rotate between bb and db, plus I do upright rows. Is there a movement I can add to change the routine?
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RE: Traps - May 5 2008 23:35:28
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do you feel your back working throughout ?
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RE: Traps - May 5 2008 23:44:51
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Shrugs and UR rows should be enough imo
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RE: Traps - May 6 2008 0:06:51
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I dont directly train my traps atall, and they grow great.
Do you do Deadlifts ? thats all I do.
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RE: Traps - May 6 2008 1:44:05
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I dont directly train my traps atall, and they grow great.
Do you do Deadlifts ? thats all I do.
Yes, I do.
I do feel my traps working when I shrug and upright row. Maybe I just need to be patient and stay consistent.
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RE: Traps - May 6 2008 10:36:01
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Are your traps disproportionally smaller than the rest of your back? Are you relativly new to training? Have you been gaining weight recently?
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RE: Traps - May 6 2008 11:48:47
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Deadlifts
OH presses
Shrugs
Face Pulls
Any rowing exercise
these all hit the traps well.
If your doing the top two heavy then your traps should be coming along well, the bottom 3 are additional exercises to supplement their development while training other muscle groups
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RE: Traps - May 6 2008 13:57:02
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I used to do zero direct trap work and my traps were pitiful.
I added shrugs once a week along with deadlifts - still nothing.
I added an additional trap exercise (face pulls or shrug variation) - still weak.
I've played around with low reps, high reps, low volume, high volume - ditto above.
I'm now training traps directly every session (3x per week), a mixture of barbell and dumbbell shrugs, heavy weights, low weights, drop sets, low rep sets. I'm going to have traps if it kills me!!!!!
My calves grow without any direct calf work - my traps are just stubborn buggers.
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RE: Traps - May 6 2008 17:39:44
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Traps aren't growing they way I'd like. Currently doing shrugs which I rotate between bb and db, plus I do upright rows. Is there a movement I can add to change the routine?
learn the oly lifts
the kelso shrug hits Traps I/II hard
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no need for drop sets and the sort
twice a week. prior to any upper/middle back work
power shrug: 5x 5. go real heavy. explode on the concentric. hold at the top if you can. controlled negative.
followed by a more strict shrug: 3 x 12. nice even tempo with a hard squeeze at the top and full ROM
the hold/ full range of motion on both is key
no bouncing the bar
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RE: Traps - May 7 2008 14:10:49
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Are your traps disproportionally smaller than the rest of your back? Are you relativly new to training? Have you been gaining weight recently?
No, they match the rest of my back. And maybe that's why I think they're not growing as much as I'd like, since the rest of my back and shoulders are growing as well.
Been training for many years.
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RE: Traps - May 7 2008 17:04:59
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ORIGINAL: Lord Monkcheese
I used to do zero direct trap work and my traps were pitiful.
I added shrugs once a week along with deadlifts - still nothing.
I added an additional trap exercise (face pulls or shrug variation) - still weak.
I've played around with low reps, high reps, low volume, high volume - ditto above.
I'm now training traps directly every session (3x per week), a mixture of barbell and dumbbell shrugs, heavy weights, low weights, drop sets, low rep sets. I'm going to have traps if it kills me!!!!!
My calves grow without any direct calf work - my traps are just stubborn buggers.
maybe your expecting to much? Sometimes its as simple as adding mass all over your back and before you know it you have a nice pair of traps. Your not gonna get a massive upper back without some serious lower back work aswell
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RE: Traps - May 7 2008 17:35:37
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Lord Monkcheese
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My upper and lower back seem ok, it's just the traps I feel are lacking.
This is a picture from a while ago:
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RE: Traps - May 7 2008 23:03:24
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Rack pulls worked wonders for me, but im not that tall and I have fairly good leverages. I think supersetting works wonders for the muscles of the back in general, for instance barbell shrug ss bent over row ss overhead shrug.
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RE: Traps - May 8 2008 17:11:03
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Rack pulls worked wonders for me, but im not that tall and I have fairly good leverages. I think supersetting works wonders for the muscles of the back in general, for instance barbell shrug ss bent over row ss overhead shrug.
You find these hit the traps well?
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RE: Traps - May 9 2008 14:14:08
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MuscleQuest
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I see what you mean. It looks like the defining trap line as been blown up
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RE: Traps - May 12 2008 1:27:38
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hey mate i had same problem, ok every 1 is different but i went with DB, front BB and behind the back BB shrugs heavy but keeping good form (holding the contraction for a second or two before lowering) sets to failure, and made sure the traps failed before my grip when they started to burn they started to grow, im still working on them ......
Traps - made up of Upper middle and lower all need to be worked
Front BB shrugs- Causes shoulders to round forward slightly using more of the UPPER trap as well as your serratus anterior. Builds bigger higher traps.
Behind the back BB shrugs - Causes you to lift your shoulders up and back hitting upper traps and middle traps a bit. Builds thicker traps.
Trying the different techniques may shock them into new growth for you hope this helps its working for me
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