What day do you train your traps on? Shoulder or Back?

cause ive heared that the reverse barbell shrug is actually working your back muscles!
but doesnt the dumbell shoulder shrug work your shoulders?

just wondering if i should do both on shoulder day or the reverse shrug on back day?

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Traps on Back day. Traps are part of the back. For me, they respond well by a few sets (2-3x10-12) of Shrugs (BB or DB - to front or side) after having done my back work (Deads, BB Row, Pulldown).

Other people do different. Find what works for you.

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i used to do them on shoulder day, however now that i have gone down to a three day routine i have had to srop shrugs and just train my abs in-directly

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What day do you train your traps on? Shoulder or Back?

Back day for me, 3 sets of BB Shrugs (heavy) supersetted with DB seated shrugs (light, high reps)

Back day. 3 sets. Superset front and behind the back barbell shrugs.

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Back day. 3 sets. Superset front and behind the back barbell shrugs.

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i used to do them on shoulder day, however now that i have gone down to a three day routine i have had to srop shrugs and just train my abs in-directly

haha you caught me, i have gone a bit red lol

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back day if using a bodypart split

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Defo back, the traps are bigger than many think, have a look:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.science-art.com/gallery/31/31_711200382034.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.science-art.com/image.asp%3Fid%3D606%26search%3D1&h=450&w=392&sz=44&hl=en&start=16&um=1&tbnid=nL5TdG8ebYPMVM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtrapezius%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Apprantly there are an upper, middle and lower trap area - http://www.exrx.net/Muscles/TrapeziusLower.html

Behind BB shrugs hit the lower regoin of the traps as normal bb/d'bell shrugs will hit near the top. Big difference to where the two exercises hit. I do a few set of normal shrugs and behind shrugs for my traps.

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you do two different types of shrugs?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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I do shrugs on Monday, shoulder stuff on Wednesday and deadlifts on Friday and my traps are getting meatier.

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you do two different types of shrugs?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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And BTB shrugs hit the top traps and neck more, not the lower traps.

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you do two different types of shrugs?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And BTB shrugs hit the top traps and neck more, not the lower traps.

Na mate i find they hit the middle/lower

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you do two different types of shrugs?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

yes mate lol

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just out of curiosity icemansoldier

what is your full routine?

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just out of curiosity icemansoldier

what is your full routine?

Simple 3 day split:

Tues - Back, Biceps, Traps, Rear delts
-Lat pulldown to front
-D'bell rows
-Deadlifts

-Pinwheel curls
-Against the wall bicep curls/sometimes hammer curls

-BB infront and behind shrugs

-bent over D'bell side rasies
- bent over cable side rasies

Fri - Legs and Shoulders
-Squats
-Leg curls
-Calve Raises

-BB press
-Side Laterals(side raises)

Sun - Chest and Triceps
-Incline bb
-Decline bb
-Flys or Pec deck or both

-CG Bench press
-Pushdowns

Abs 2/3 times a week

Planning to change my 3 day split to the below in a few weeks or something like this:

Chest/Back/Traps

Biceps/Triceps

Leg /Shoulders

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interesting routine mate, i wouldnt call it simple though but if it works it works i suppose

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interesting routine mate, i wouldnt call it simple though but if it works it works i suppose

why you ask mate, just outta curiousity?

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i'm nosey mate, i was curious as to how you managed to fit two different shrug exercises in pal

i shall be doing some research into pinwheel curls though

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