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Building Traps?
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Legion Kreinak2
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I'm wit you...
gettinlarger
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Deads off the rack POUND my traps. Throw on some immense weight and enjoy.
Zander1983
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Try a snatch grip with those rack deadlifts. You'll hate me for suggesting it 
this is why i spend less and less time on this board because so many people try to disagree with everything. try it before u knock it....and if 5lbs is too pussy of a poundage for you..then go up to 8 or 10 but the exersize is used to concentrate on your traps and not using other muscles to lift it. it's like an isolation exersize for your traps. if don't like..then don't do it
SofaGeorge
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All ye youngsters listen to me:
Gold's Venice still crawls with the grand old men of the Golden Age of bodybuilding - the '60s and '70s.
One night I was hanging at the front desk with the old crowd that made their names during the Arnold Swarzenegger years. The subject came up of building traps. They all started talking about the "best" trap builder... and how nobody ever did it anymore - except the survivors of the old crowd.
They thought upright rows and shrugs were okay... but the trap builder that got the big vote was the standing calf machine.
No joke.
The guys showed me how they would get in it... and rather than work calves... they would use their traps only to raise the yoke. I tried it and it totally cooked my traps.
Now my trap routine is:
2 sets to failure (20-30 reps) raising the yoke with my traps in the standing calf machine
5 sets 5 upright rows
2 sets shrugs
The standing calf machine for traps is something I've only seen pros or ex-pros use. It works great.
Gold's Venice still crawls with the grand old men of the Golden Age of bodybuilding - the '60s and '70s.
One night I was hanging at the front desk with the old crowd that made their names during the Arnold Swarzenegger years. The subject came up of building traps. They all started talking about the "best" trap builder... and how nobody ever did it anymore - except the survivors of the old crowd.
They thought upright rows and shrugs were okay... but the trap builder that got the big vote was the standing calf machine.
No joke.
The guys showed me how they would get in it... and rather than work calves... they would use their traps only to raise the yoke. I tried it and it totally cooked my traps.
Now my trap routine is:
2 sets to failure (20-30 reps) raising the yoke with my traps in the standing calf machine
5 sets 5 upright rows
2 sets shrugs
The standing calf machine for traps is something I've only seen pros or ex-pros use. It works great.
ZGzaZ said:
i said every day (like i do your momma) to every other day... I see a lot of socially and genetically deprived people try to be the antagonist to get attention. dense muscle fibers need to be worked hard and often because they recover fast... when i first started this exersize i was concentrating only on my traps and just trying to maintain the other body parts. I would do it ed to eod.
i don't mind that people disagree with me but don't knock it until you try it.
u're dumb ass mofo and and i just took valuable time out of my life to sit here and explain to your dense skull the reasons for my response.
BIG POPPA
Thaibox
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Big poopa
Don't get offended and hostile because people are disagreeing with you. Your method simply makes no sense. Provide us with solid proof that your theory is plausible in the gym and you'd get a more respectable response. Being that it goes against several fundamental lifting basics, you have to expect some criticism eh?
SofaGeorge,
I've heard a few people rave about this for traps. An old school lifter at my gym that use to train with "the Myth" said that it was their main trap lift, and Sergio had some decent traps.
I wouldn't do them simply because the amount of weight you'd have to put on the thing would be more than I squat. When I squat, its easy to force the proper upward arch in my back, but with the calf machine it would be way too easy to arch my back forward or otherwise that would destroy me.
Don't get offended and hostile because people are disagreeing with you. Your method simply makes no sense. Provide us with solid proof that your theory is plausible in the gym and you'd get a more respectable response. Being that it goes against several fundamental lifting basics, you have to expect some criticism eh?
SofaGeorge,
I've heard a few people rave about this for traps. An old school lifter at my gym that use to train with "the Myth" said that it was their main trap lift, and Sergio had some decent traps.
I wouldn't do them simply because the amount of weight you'd have to put on the thing would be more than I squat. When I squat, its easy to force the proper upward arch in my back, but with the calf machine it would be way too easy to arch my back forward or otherwise that would destroy me.
