Interesting Read On Traps

[Lskee]

Found this article very interesting, because im working hard to get some decent traps on me.

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_art ... p_training

[tinytraps]

I have less than stellar traps.

I find this article a little better.

http://www.chaosandpain.com/content/what-f*ck-are-those-things-around-your-ears-how-i-got-my-traps-part-2

[Specter]

What are you guys doing in regards to training your Traps? Post up your Trap training..

[mike27]

SHEIKO DEADLIFT DAY :twisted:

no direct trap training from me :nod:

[kaws]

Shrugs with 20kg plates to failure then 15kg,10kgs, 5 kgs then no weight (just shrug your shoulders up and down) so pretty much a giant set of 100 or so reps seems to get them...

[thatwaslight]

As my best and most developed body part, for once I actually think I can have some input here.

But it's the same shit you always get told..... basic and heavy, nothing goes past rack pulls, heavy deads and shrugs. If you can't build traps with those exercises then accept that your going to stay a pencil neck.

The best way I find to shrug is on the smith machine standing in front of the bar, (behind your legs) Use wraps for max grip and work your way up until your just getting movement. This is one exercise where you don't a massive rom (not saying don't get a full contraction) but do 6-7 sets of heavy rack pulls where there is barely any movement and tell me you don't feel sick the next day!

[hhhh1]

+1 for deadlifts. fucking hate shrugs

[Best Bench]

The best way I find to shrug is on the smith machine standing in front of the bar, (behind your legs)

I rate these.

Also heavy farmers walks, my traps are screwed for days after doing these.

[BeastBuilder]

The best way I find to shrug is on the smith machine standing in front of the bar, (behind your legs)

I rate these.

Also heavy farmers walks, my traps are screwed for days after doing these.

Agreed on both counts, works wonders !

[majorflavazz]

i just du upright rows superset with shrugs with light weight alot reps and my traps are huge lol, traps are a combination mostly of slow twich fibres bout 53% so iv read anyway which works better with a gud weight for high reps and fast twitch about 40 sumthin %,http://www.abcbodybuilding.com/anatomy/backanatomy3.htm...this has good info about it.

But everyone will be diffrent

[AllenNZ]

for me traps are a waste of time as it does very little for the bodybuilders look. who wants ski slopes and narrow shoulders :pfft: dont belive me then just look around and look at all the skinny in the gym all they do is traps and biceps and then to have the wannabes strongmen doing traps to

[Mike250]

you shouldn't be doing any shrug work until you can deadlift 400lbs for a good 6-8 reps.

[Android]

I think because high Traps are immediately visible under clothing they do look good. You are right tho, the bigger you make them the wider you have to make you shoulders or you just look silly. And the wider you make your shoulders the bigger you have to make you Legs.

It's a balancing act and us novice bodybuilders usually go to some extreme on a muscle group before realising we are out or proportion and then make an adjustment.

On a side note: This is why it's pretty rude to take the piss out of someone who is building a body, for having some lagging bodypart or some extreme bodypart. They are on a path to some goal and you can't always keep yourself in good symmetry throughout your progression. Skinny guys with traps and biceps are prolly just responding well in those areas, give them time and skinny guys can look better than some of us (some of us :-))

[HarryB]

I think because high Traps are immediately visible under clothing they do look good. You are right tho, the bigger you make them the wider you have to make you shoulders or you just look silly. And the wider you make your shoulders the bigger you have to make you Legs.

It's a balancing act and us novice bodybuilders usually go to some extreme on a muscle group before realising we are out or proportion and then make an adjustment.

On a side note: This is why it's pretty rude to take the piss out of someone who is building a body, for having some lagging bodypart or some extreme bodypart. They are on a path to some goal and you can't always keep yourself in good symmetry throughout your progression. Skinny guys with traps and biceps are prolly just responding well in those areas, give them time and skinny guys can look better than some of us (some of us :-))

Ummm yeah what he said.... perhaps those guys don't even train traps they just happen to respond. Plus man... what bodybuilder doesn't want developed traps... That's the look of power right there! I am fairly fortunate mine grow without too much direct work but if they needed it I would do it.

[Mike250]

Traps like Goldberg

http://www.trans-health.com/images/goldberg.jpg

[thatwaslight]

Big traps make you look like a bodybuilder, tiny traps and you look like a fitness model

[HarryB]

Big traps make you look like a bodybuilder, tiny traps and you look like a fitness model

Shot!

[Peroxide]

I've just been told that I need to leave my traps alone for a while, work on a few lagging areas due to my traps over powering the rest of my (lagging) upper physique. :oops:

Probably came from a love of deadlifts over the years! :twisted: