* BEST Mass-Builder For TRAPS? *

[WalkingBeast]

For mass and thickness i'm all about heavy bar shrugs. I would personally place deadlifts second for mass. I've just started seated bar shrugs. Sit at the end of the bench with most of your ass hangin off. You can do a front grip or rev. grip this way also, both feel awesome. When you pull the weight up it's like pulling it directly through the middle of your body. It's only been a couple weeks for me on this one, but as far as the height of my traps are concerned i'm likin this exercise.

I agree. If traps wasnt my best bodypart and I didnt already have sufficient trap size Id be doing lots of barbell and dumbell shrugs. I dont train traps seperately anymore since I deadlift alot. I got most all of my trap size and strength before I started deadlifting with heavy shrugs. Traps have always overpowered everything else on my body so its not a bodypart I have to isolate anymore. Deadlifts seems to have thickened my traps though.

 

[cwick0]

I am shocked that nobody here realized military presses build huge traps. I thought it would be one of the top responses!

Its something very few focus on. I have been hitting them the past year and my traps havent grown much as a result of military presses. I suspect they help in defining the traps a little more.

 

[Tweakle]

Deadlifts are so far in first for me that 2nd place doesn't matter, but trap-bar shrugs for medium reps & low rep partial deadlifts are good finishers

 

[NorgePrecision]

Deads and heavy db shrugs

tweakle, your location is no good

 

[djeclipse]

deadlifts, period.

Agreed....

 

[needtogetaas]

behind the neck pull downs.get up to about 300 or so in that and you will have some traps.I know.

 

[BennyGunnz]

how many sets/exercises do you do for traps?

 

[theprofessor]

id bet that most, not all, that voted for any form of shrugs either doesn't do cleans and deads, or doesn't do them right...

 

[al420]

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/OlympicLifts/HighPull.html

I can't wait to do some of those bad boys at the "fitness club" - may be my last day at that gym...........

 

[muscelove]

howbout explosive upright rows??? seems when i do them i get a feeling in my traps that i cant get from any other exercise