Trapezius Workout Secret

Published on 10 Nov 2012

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One of the most overlooked muscles when it comes to direct training, or at least correct direct training is the traps or trapezius muscles. Regardless of what traps workout you're following, perhaps nobody personifies the kind of towering traps that you can get with the right traps workout than Batman and Warrior actor Tom Hardy. The guy literally looks like he is smuggling sandbags in his upper back and neck!

But how did he develop such an impressive set of huge traps?

From doing trap exercises the right way...by contracting the traps on every rep of shrugs and not just lifting the bar from point A to point B. There is a huge difference in the activation of the traps muscles when you simply lift your shoulders upwards during a shrug and when you contract and pinch your shoulder blades back at the same time that you lift.

Watch the demonstration in this video and see how much more active the traps muscles are when this is done correctly and how much more effective you can make your traps workout if you start doing them this way.

Also remember that when you're performing your shrugs, it's always better to do slightly less weight and use dumbbells to ensure a good contraction in your traps than it is to use a barbell, and get blocked from reaching full contraction. You'll see much better results from your workouts if you do.

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Build Trapezius Muscles With Correct (not shrug) Trap Exercises

Uploaded on 12 Nov 2009
 

http://www.TrapIntimidation.com Stop doing shrugs! New trap building program shows you know exercises how to really blast the trapezius muscles.

Delt isolation - avoid the "Traps Trap" for Bigger Shoulders - YouTube

Uploaded on 25 Feb 2012

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By far one of the biggest mistakes I see in shoulder training is the way people perform their side lateral raises. In an effort to get bigger shoulders, far too often the "Traps Trap" mistake is committed and shoulder size and growth is held back.

In this video I'm going to show you how you can improve your shoulder training and get bigger shoulders by making one slight adjustment with the way you do your side deltoid raises. It all starts with the traps. The tendency is to swing the weights up to the top of the movement by using NOT just your deltoids but your trapezius muscles as well.

This is fine if you're trying to build your traps, but it's going to make your deltoid muscle development suffer, you'll have smaller shoulders because of it...and you really won't be hitting your traps all that much either since the weight won't be heavy enough to make a difference.

Remember, it's all about HOW you do a shoulder exercise and not just WHAT shoulder exercise you're doing when you're trying to get the most out of your shoulder training. With the ATHLEAN-X Training System by Jeff Cavaliere you'll see how pro athletes train and be trained by a real professional athlete trainer. You'll get the most out of not only your shoulder workouts but every workout you do from here on in. It's time to get ATHLEAN!

Traps Exercises with Master Trainer Victor Costa

Published on 17 Mar 2013

Trapezius Exercises Traps Exercises with Master Trainer Victor Costa
Most bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts use the "shrug", for trapezius development.

Avoid shrugs, do this instead - overhead dumbbell trap clench with minimal extention