how are you guys doing your shrugs??

[mustang_00]

how many are rotating your sholders back?? i've read and heard that's a good way of fucking your rotator cuff up but it's the only way i feel it and the only way mine seem to grow. my traps are growing more by rotating them with half the weight i use with the barbell/smith machine/db...

 

[silver_shadow]

do jump shrugs with at least as much as you can deadlift for 5 reps. i doubt you'd want to rotate your shoulders with that much.... straight up and straight down!

 

[mustang_00]

don't think i've ever heard of jump shrugs before... i don't use much weight when i rotate them. i only use normal heavy weight on barbell/smith machine.

 

[silver_shadow]

jump shrugs: you basically bend your knees a little and try to jump with the weight. at the end of it, you shrug the weight up as hard as possible. you can really overload the traps big time with jump shrugs. try it for sets of more than 5 reps. i do it with the smith (the only exercise i use the smith for)

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

 

[SwitchMan]

heavy weight. No rotating. Good form trying to touch your shoulders and ears.

 

[royale13ii]

jump shrugs have definately been giving me thickness on my traps, i highly recommend it! wish i would have been doing them a while back. its catch up time now!

 

[mustang_00]

hmmm i'll give those a shot!! thanx bro

 

[jumpmaster82]

i do both. i mean ill do one set where i rotate and one set where i dont. and as far as jump shrugs they are good and i throw them in my trap routine sometimes. but be careful when doing them cuz its really easy to strain your back.