Problems with shrugs..

[Marcoparc]

It seems my grip cannot accomodate what I need to really hit my trapazoids...

I don't even know how much I can do because my hands start failing pretty quickly after like 90lb DBs (I've also seen some people just use an olypic bar on the rack), which is very easy in terms of the actual lift, but my grip is shit it looks like.

Any advice?

 

[petpre61]

train your grip - hold on to the dbs as long as you can after shrugs for example with out doing reps anymore. farmer walk works too or doing chinups and after you are done hang onto the bar...

 

[HotMan]

gota do 2 things:

1) use opposite grips ( 1 hand over bar, 1 hand under bar)
2) by lifting chalk (get some on your hands and the bar will lock in on your skin great for making callis)

if your losing 90lb db's you have some really weak gripyou might want to do somegrip training.. also get rid of db's and use the barbell..

 

[BiggT]

Also, while I am not a big proponent of straps on traditionally 'contested' lifts, there is absolutely nothing wrong with shrugging with straps, you're overloading the upper back, not training the grip, the upper back can handle lots more weight and abuse than your grip.

 

[mekannik]

Hook grip is another option.

http://tomgorman.moonfruit.com/hookgrip

 

[Cynical Simian]

It seems my grip cannot accomodate what I need to really hit my trapazoids...

?????

Agreed with BiggT - use straps. However, it sounds like your grip is a pretty big relative weakness, so you could probably benefit from training it anyway.

 

[Protobuilder]

LoL @ CS.

Wanna' discuss grip training??? Heck, just start doing pullups and stay away from the pulldown machine. That'll help right there. And deadlifts w/o straps. Wrap a thick towel around the bars that you lift with and grab onto the towel rather than the bar . . . the increased thickness will build your grip/forearms. There's a gazillion ways to train grip. Honestly though, just time with freeweight barbell exercises will build grip for general lifting purposes. It's hard to shrug w/out straps though b/c the weights can get so heavy.

 

[Marcoparc]

K so obviously my grip is mad weak. So I will start training that. And is it better to do with a bar?

 

[Cynical Simian]

I wonder if we could make a Sticky Comprehension Test a prerequisite for posting in this forum...

 

[Raffaz]

try doing wrist curls and reverse wrist curls aswell