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30 Minutes to Bigger Traps: Shrugs, Carries and Y-Raises
Big traps fill the space between your neck and shoulders, and they show in a T-shirt. Training them doesn’t take long, because a handful of movements…
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Exercise Guides
Band Shrugs: Strengthen Your Traps and Upper Back Muscles
Band shrugs are an alternative exercise variation targeting the trapezius muscles utilizing elastic rubber bands that when stretched, create increasingly more resistance. Your trapezius or trap…
Workout Plans
Push-Pull-Legs Bowflex Workout
Whether you’ve got a Bowflex home gym already or are thinking of buying one, you’ll be glad to hear these awesome machines are great for building…
Back
Smith Machine Upright Row: Build Shoulders & Back Strength
A variation of a hotly debated exercise, Smith Machine Upright Row are a pull-focused movement that works the traps, upper back, deltoids, and biceps all in one.…
Training
13 Best Pull Exercises To Transform Your Posterior Chain
Whether you’re following the push/pull/legs workout or doing any other kind of training split, it’s usually best to do the same number of pulling and pushing…
Bodybuilding
Watch: The Rock Blast His Traps With Heavy Barbell Shrugs In Late Night Training Session
All business at the gym, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is known to push his body to extremes in order to achieve his mountainous physique. Recently the…
Training
How Much Does A Hex Bar Weigh?
Barbells come in all shapes and sizes, but Olympic barbells should all be identical. That’s important because, in competition, standardization matters. If Olympic barbells differed in…
Training
Build A Bigger Yoke With Kirk Shrugs
A big yoke is a cherry on top of a great physique that you’ll see on strength athletes, bodybuilders, and movie stars. And it makes them look…
Training
5 Exercises You Should Stop Going Super Heavy On In The Gym
Ego lifting is holding you back in the gym. A focus on perfect form and performing each rep with a full range of motion is exactly…
Arms
Bigger Traps: Front Barbell Shrugs vs. Behind-the-Back Shrugs
A wise man once said that the traps make the man. Given that your traps are one of the largest muscles on your back and which…
Arms
Top 5 Most Important Muscle Groups You Are Neglecting
The “glamor muscles” Chest, Biceps, Triceps, Abs, and Quads get most of the attention from the ladies (and men), thanks to the fact that they are the…